Jeremy Perkins

London

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Could someone explain how foreign drivers are to be charged? Or how people will be prevented from going under the covers of their car and disabling the box the government has installed there? I can see a whole new industry being created, even as I write.

Oh, and one other thing. You can bet your bottom dollar that government ministers will not be included in the scheme, just as senior party members in the Sovet Union (or Tony Blair in the ridiculous M4 bus lane) managed to escape the effects of their own legislation. Of course they'll cite security and the worry that a hacker might publish Tony Blair's movements on the internet, then go on to reassure us that our movements really are safe in their hands as long as we have nothing to hide.

I write as someone who supports the idea in principle as long as car tax and fuel tax are scrapped when the scheme is introduced and the whole thing is then revenue neutral (I know - fat chance from this government), and that the very serious privacy issues can be resolved. But as is so often the case the devil is in the detail (in this case of the technology).

The system as proposed sounds like a recipe to fleece the law-abiding motorist and encourage all but the most honest members of society to abuse the system.