Singapore is once again on the "cutting edge" of deploying various kinds of mass surveillance tech, on a mass scale - this time, it's time to make sure all vehicles on its roads are tracked by GPS.
Electric Road Pricing (ERP) is moving from its original, fairly conventional way of charging toll fees, to ERP 2.0, which is done via a GPS tracking device that's found inside vehicles.
The city-state's Land Transport Authority (LTA) said that the new system will provide "more comprehensive aggregated traffic information" - no kidding.
Namely, instead of ERP charging - and therefore registering the location of a vehicle on a particular road during particular hours - ERP 2.0 makes sure, and easy, they are tracked "at all times."
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