Cars to rat on drivers

The United Arab Emirates has a traffic problem. The abnormally high rate of traffic-related deaths there has resulted in a multi-year program to use technology, specifically telematics and GPS, in the form of a black box that evaluates, reports and warns drivers if they are out of line.
IBM is the winner of a four year contract to install tens of thousands of these black boxes in UAE cars and trucks.
But that's not all the information from the boxes has many uses. "The data gathered by the devices can be used not only by the government to monitor traffic habits, but also by commercial companies to offer consumer-related services such as rental cars and hotels" writes Martin LaMonica at CNet.
For more see: "IBM Car Tech to Nab Speeders"