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Top advisory body criticised kilometer taxThursday 19 November 2009 The government's most senior advisory body, the Raad van State (council of state) criticised the government's plans to bring in a kilometer tax on motoring as far back as the spring, it emerged late on Wednesday. In its recommendations to the cabinet, which have only now been published, the council says it has serious doubts about the project and asked ministers to look again at the plans. In particular the council said it has doubts about the reliability of the satellite technology which will track motorists, ANP reported. Last Friday, the transport ministry finally published the kilometer tax rates to be introduced from 2012. The launch rate for the most energy-efficient car will be three cents a kilometer, rising to almost seven cents by 2018. © DutchNews.nl Get the DutchNews.nl newsletter in your mailbox: Click here to subscribe
Don't worry Gerard. GPS is the ancient American system. Bits of them will be falling out of the sky soon enough and then they'll launch the European (Galileo) system. It's rather late but will be as faultless as pigs with wings. By Michael Dawkes | November 19, 2009 10:57 AM issue with all RF based systems is that they are really suspected for jamming - just using very cheap DIY electronics (old mobile phone RF power amplifier, small wire antenna)- GPS or any similar system can be jammed - only for 10 euro... By pandy | November 19, 2009 2:42 PM "In particular the council said it has doubts about the reliability of the satellite technology which will track motorists, ANP reported." Well, I do not consider this a real report. The point is that the vehicle is tracked in the first place. The kilometre tax is a nice to have, but I suspect the real reason is to track the movement of people. Thus, the report might well be pointless, other than making us think that real concerns were raised over government responce to trackle perceieved threats to state security. By John P | November 19, 2009 3:06 PM we foreigners in this country cant wait to see that the law on kilometer is put in place as soon as possible because fairly used car business will boom for us once again.........many stingy dutch people will quickly sell their cars cheap and go on fiets or public transport lol.....goedkoop hahahaha By faith | November 21, 2009 12:13 AM Place your comments: |
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" the council said it has doubts about the reliability of the satellite technology which will track motorists"
Exactly what will happen when one of these GPS tracking devices goes faulty, or fails completely?
1) Does the motorist travel for free?
2) Will someone (Police) notice that a vehicle is traveling with a faulty device?
If so, will they then go and alert the driver, automatically provide a new tracking device, or allow the vehicle to proceed?
3) As it is Holland ... what will the the level of fine to the the innocent motorist for a Government insisted on GPS tracking device failing to track a vehicle?
The Polish certainly seem to have made their own lives easier by choosing a far simpler, more reliable, and easier to manage system.
By Gerard | November 19, 2009 8:31 AM