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Old 14th Jun 2018, 16:07
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Originally Posted by Sallyann1234
As for using Galileo for road pricing, if the UK ever manages to get a similar service working, (with emphasis on the 'manages') it will of course be used for road pricing. That will be one of the justifications for the huge expenditure.
Which is doubly silly, because VR and local manufacturing are about to make roads obsolete.

Central planning: always doing what would have been the right thing fifty years ago,

Maybe the UK should talk to Elon Musk and see if they can pay to have their clocks and transmitters added to his new Internet satellite constellation.
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