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Date Posted: 10:04:53 01/11/01 Thu
Author: starbuck
Subject: crazy stuff

Satellites may soon be able to stop drivers from breaking the speed limit.

An in-car computer would use the orbiting global positioning system
to work out where a car is and what the speed limit is for that road.

The system can then override the accelerator, brakes and fuel supply to stop the driver speeding.

Scientists at Leeds University have been developing the project
and the Department of the Environment is backing a major trial.

Dr Oliver Carston told The Mirror newspaper it should cost just
a few hundred pounds, he added: "The argument is overwhelmingly convincing on safety grounds."

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