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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. Cost of Deployment to Police force by with_him · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I am wondering if the cost spent on deployment, not of the plates (that could passed on to the consumer) but the scanners to the law enforcement, wouldn't be better spent on something like addressing the spread of HIV in their population.

    http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/malaysia_2412. html from the link "HIV/AIDS prevalence is increasing. Reported HIV cases are doubling every three years."