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Malaysia to Use RFID Number Plates Next Year

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the following-cars-made-easy dept.

durianwool wrote in with a story about Malaysia's plans to introduce RFID number plates. It reads: "'The first thing thieves do after a car theft is change the registration plates,' Road Transport Department Director-General Ahmad Mustapha was quoted as saying. The microchips, using radio frequency identification technology, will be fixed into the number plates and can transmit data at a range of up to 100 meters (yards), the report said. They will have a battery life of 10 years, it said. "

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  1. Now the second thing.. by Yetihehe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    will be to fry, change or overwrite RFID tag

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    1. Re:Now the second thing.. by garcia · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Ah, because they don't need human interaction in order to check for you passing between the gates. If someone is sitting at a computer monitor with a stopwatch mechanism and times you between the gates and calculates that you are speeding, I have no problems with the "technology" (as it's just like VASCAR over a longer distance).

      What I do have a problem with is automated systems to do this job (i.e. lowjacking cars) so that it's fast and easy to make revenue.

    2. Re:Now the second thing.. by sgtrock · · Score: 2, Insightful

      That's still a manageable risk, though, with proper training, laws, enforcement, and to a lesser extent better road design. Have you ever driven on the autobahn? Cars zipping along at up to 140+ mph in the inside lane, 70-100 mph in the middle lane or two, while the outside lane lumbers along at 50-60 mph. Accidents are rare, although admittedly when they involve the inner two lanes things can get kinda messy.

      The Germans do it by having a longer driving course than the US does, their traffic laws and penalties are designed to enforce common courtesy between drivers, and their traffic cops are very aggressive about enforcing their laws. The autobahns were designed to fit the countryside as opposed to blowing straight lines through it (reduces driver fatigue by giving them a road that requires that they actually look at it instead of get hypnotized), and they have road beds that are designed to last much longer than the US's. Frankly, I think that if people here could see how well the German system works, most of them would vote to adopt the first three practices immediately if it meant that we could actually have sane traffic flows at much higher speeds.

  2. I don't get it. by shmlco · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't get it. The first thing they do is change the plates... so we're going to put tags into the plates???

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  3. Re:I don't get it. by FlyByPC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um, and have the government know exactly where every car is, where they've been, and how long they've been there?

    What a doubleplusgood idea for MiniLuv, citizen...

    I for one do NOT welcome any such RFID overlords.

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  4. Meters (yards) ??? by drpimp · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "can transmit data at a range of up to 100 meters (yards)"

    Which on is it?
    100 meters = 109.36133 yd

    It might not be much at only 100 of them, but there is a difference.

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    1. Re:Meters (yards) ??? by Ralph+Yarro · · Score: 3, Insightful

      INSIGHTFUL?

      The range isn't really a round number of standard measuring units. In fact it isn't even constant, depending instead on a whole range of conditions and on the equipment in use. 100 meters and 100 yards are both approximations that are sufficiently inaccurate that it really doesn't matter which you use.

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  5. Re:I don't get it. by garcia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The first thing the government does is tell its people that its spying protects them from harm.

  6. Re:Speed of the car ? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hate not being able to use my mobile phone in the car or listen to the broadcast radio whilst moving.

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  7. Stupid by Life700MB · · Score: 3, Insightful


    I work in a RFID related start-up and I can assure you that putting the RFID tags in the plates just doesn't make sense, is just like adding a control number to the plate... what you want to know is if the plates correspond to the car, not a second way of identifying the plates!!!

    They should add the tag into the inners of the car, so they can detect when a detected RFID value and the plate don't match. It's a lot more useful, IMHO.

    Also I found funny to see the specs of the RFID chips (tags, as we know them) of 100 meters and ten years of battery, are exactly the same as ours... it would be priceless to discover reading Slashdot that our American partners are doing extra hours without telling my boss!!!

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