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In Brazil, All Vehicles Must Have Radio IDs By 2014

Posted by timothy on from the cross-their-heart-and-hope-to-die dept.

morcego writes "Brazil's National Traffic Council (CNT) published Friday a resolution that institutes the National System of Automatic Vehicle Identification (Siniav). According to the Q&A published (Google translation from Portuguese), only 'visible and public' information will be available (vehicle year or fabrication, make, model, combustible, engine power and license plate number), without any personal information about the owner or registration data. This system will be mandatory for all vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc) and should cost vehicle owners approximately R$5 (less than US$3)."

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  1. certainly much simpler than by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    certainly much simpler than spending gazillion dollars on cameras with ocr for the plates, like what's being rolled out in western world.

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    1. Re:certainly much simpler than by gtirloni · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I don't want to disappoint you but Brazil is pretty much in the "western world" too. And it has lots of cameras with license plate reading tech for speeding tickets, etc.

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    2. Re:certainly much simpler than by SourceFrog · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Why yes, I'm all for more efficient methods for re-creating 1984.

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    3. Re:certainly much simpler than by zill · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why yes, I'm all for more efficient methods for re-creating Brazil.

      FTFY

    4. Re:certainly much simpler than by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Informative

      I know you're being funny and I got a chuckle out of it ... but just fyi:

      South American has the lowest levels of opiates use of any region in the world, cocaine at about half the rate of first-world countries and cannabis lower that all areas except SE Asia.

      http://geocurrents.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Per-Capita-Opiate-Use-Map.jpg
      It would seem Africa and East Asia use less opiates on average, thanks to Brazil.
      Perhaps even Australia may use less opiates on average.

      From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_prevalence_of_opiates_use, I looked up my own country, the Netherlands, where laws on opiate usage is somewhat more lenient than most countries in the world; about halfway down and much less than highly anti-drug countries such as the US. What does that tell you? Either enforcement is less in the US (22% of inmates will tell you otherwise; http://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/usa/incarceration/) or legalizing drugs actually lessens drug use (taking drugs is not rebelious and anti-establishment if you can legally do so).

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    5. Re:certainly much simpler than by _Sharp'r_ · · Score: 4, Informative

      Lastpass is an RFID issued for toll road payments along the U.S. east coast. Makes it so they can just deduct your toll from an account instead of having to stop at a boothe.

      Updating the summary: "This system will be mandatory for all vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc) and should cost vehicle owners approximately R$5 (less than US$3) and their privacy."

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  2. for what purpose? by dutchwhizzman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why would you want such a thing? Humans can't read it and it sounds like criminals can easily swap tags or fake tags if they want to disguise themselves. License plates at least gave you the option to report a driver that caused an accident. At best, this is useful for statistics about vehicle usage, not for individual tracking, taxing or that sort of thing.

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    1. Re:for what purpose? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      A national toll road system can be setup now. Tolls can be made billable to the vehicle OWNER since they have the license plate number..

  3. License plate /= registration data? by LaZZaR · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This means you are trackable.

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    1. Re:License plate /= registration data? by gtirloni · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Not exactly 100% efficient since the _car_ is trackable but I get the point. Same thing with your cellphone though.

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  4. Most people don't care by tmcb · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, car thefts are quite frequent in some Brazilian cities, so it's not surprise that most people won't see anything wrong on that apart from paying 5 bucks for the thing themselves. Some people will even see this as a good thing; well, it's an extremely cheap car tracking service!

    There were really few contrary opinions to the resolution. Mr. Raul Jungmann, national representative, filed a request for its suspension, alluding to privacy concerns, but no final solution was given to the matter since 2007. It had no big repercussion on media, too. That's how things work in Brazil: these stuff get approved with enough antecedence, but become news just over the deadline. I can't say if it's intentional, but it really seems so.