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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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  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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