Malaysia to embed car license plates with microchips to combat theft
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia’s government, hoping to thwart car thieves, will embed license plates with microchips containing information about the vehicle and its owner, a news report said Saturday.
With the chips in use, officials can scan cars at roadblocks and identify stolen vehicles, the New Straits Times reported.
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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.
I can think of a few other uses as well. Read at 100m well then set up two readers a 100 meters apart and then calculate who is speeding - automatically fine them. How about tracking your citizenry - Singapore is not known as a thriving democracy after all, just a thriving economy.
Comment from Dirtgrain
Time: 12/29/2006, 8:27 am
No speeding ever, anywhere? I could handle it, I guess. It would definitely level the playing field between my clunker car and the dude driving next to me in a Corvette. I could have a lot of fun pointing and laughing at him.