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RFID License Plates in the UK
An anonymous reader writes "The UK Government is studying license plates with embedded RFID tags. The plates can be read from 300 feet away and in rapid succession by readers embedded in the road or by 'surveillance vehicles.'"
Now they'll know exactly how fast i was going! without using those arbitrary numbers those radar guns make.
Now all I need is a RFID tag stapled to my little buddy so the government can track how often i get it on with the wife. May come in handy for the future population controls and killing off all ppl over 30....
besides our cars are supposed to be just metaphorical extensions of our penises anyway right?
The future is so BRIGHT!
"If I were bound by all laws everywhere I'm sure I would have committed a capital crime somewhere."
Do you mean to tell me that that wherever people drive in the UK, their cars will be "tagged" with a unique identifier that will allow a car to be "traced" back to an owner?
We can't put up with this, people. Next thing you know, police will be able to take this "tag" number, run it though a "computer data base," and find out how many traffic violations you have committed! I, for one, fight tooth and nail to keep this from coming to pass.
dinner: it's what's for beer
By the way, I'm making all of this up. And you didn't read it anyway. So it never happened.
You can put away the tinfoil hat - tires aren't that hard to install yourself! Just think of them as round rubber Linux distros and you'll be fine.
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
If this would get the police off the road, and let me speed at will with just a bit of tinfoil, then I'm all for it!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Let's just put an RFID in my ass and be done with it.
Self awareness - try it!
The plates are the same shape and size as conventional plates, and are permanently fitted to the vehicle in the same way. says the article.
So, attached by 2 screws then? Damn that permanent fitting. How will we ever get around it?
I for one support measures that discourage people from driving inefficient polluting farm equipment hundreds of miles just to go shopping in the city. Attempting to maneuver a bulky tractor on cramped London streets was surely a safety menace to motorists and pedestrians alike. He should have considered taking some form of public transportation instead.
If RFID tags can help keep tractors and combine harvesters off of our city streets, then I support them 110%.
Finally, once all the used tires run out, you will probably have a really difficult time finding a tire with no rfid tags...
Nah...there are about 10 people in my development that have the same car as me.
--trb
No officer, I have no idea why that rock chip looks just like a chisel mark ;)
Real programmers use "copy con program.exe"
Yeah except there's more tabloid readers than broadsheets. Not everyone reads the Guardian or Independant.
They also need to introduce compulsory execution for all Daily Express and Dail Mail readers.
FACT: Discarded auto tires contribute 1,243,918 tons of non-recyclable trash to US landfills every year.
FACT: In the United States and Canada in 2003, 87 children under the age of eighteen were seriously injured in accidents involving unregistered tire-swings 70% of which were suspended from unregistered trees.
FACT: In Europe, where private ownership of tire-mounting machines has long been prohibited, not one violent crime was committed with an unregistered tire-mounting machine in the last decade..
FACT: In 2003, 4,451 children below the age of 18 were killed or seriously wounded in accidents involving improperly-secured home tire-mounting machines.
FACT: In French Guiana, where the law forbids private ownership of radio frequencies, the wealth-gap between rich and poor is only 10% of that found in the United States, and studies have shown unequivocally that tires wear up to 40% longer.
FACT: In both Cuba and Canada, publicly-funded health care ensures that doctors can't afford large, heavy SUVs, resulting in significantly diminished levels of tire-related non-recyclable waste.
So instead I suggest you get a portable RFID eraser (cheap in the US, they use them at every sales counter), and go around in parking lots, erasing all the cars in them. LONG LIVED ANONYMOUS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
My slightly modified microwave oven begs to differ ;)