....using piston powered fixed wing aircraft. Choppers, especially turbine powered ones (and I would be shocked if they are using anything but) are considerably more expensive to operate that the typical fixed wing Cessna.

As someone else pointed out they are going to be using cameras rather than Vascar so they can write a lot more tickets but I can't imagine them ever being in the black with this program. It will run a few months and then the fuel and maintenace bills will start coming in and that will be the end of it IMOH.

Those are going to have to be some REALLY big fines to ever have that program pay for itself. I am not sure you could dream up a more expensive way to do speed enforcement.

Hey....Autoblog Writers....this currency translation issue seems to be a common problem for you guys. You make a direct translation in your article (for what purpose I am not really sure) and then 10 people have to comment how expensive the car is because THEY don't understand how European carmakers price US product.

I there a reason the articles have to contain the translation?????

Jman:

The only problem with that logic is that would mean the Elite has 65nm chips since it has HDMI ... but it doesn't.

I second that "comment of the day" nomination - that WAS funny!

HELP.....I was literally JUST heading out to pick up a new 720 at a local store when I saw this news of a "potentially soon to be released" 920 unit. What do I do? If the essential difference would be more and better traffic resources I don't think that matters much to me here in Madison, WI - we don't get any of those services to begin with to my knowledge.

Any thoughts....hold tight? Buy the 720?

$5 bucks says it goes the way of the Mac Cube in a few months.

I suspect if the show does make it over here they will spend a fair amount of time actually testing cars in fly-over country where the traffic is a "wee bit" lighter than non-flyover country (whatever the hell that is).

Anybody else notice the Honda Asimo icon representing the car on the nav system - thats pretty funny!

Thanks for the comments - it helps! Curt