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Electronic License Plates

by Steve
Friday, October 07, 2005

E-Plates are license plates that contain an electronic tracking system. As you drive your car around, the e-Plate will register itself with sensors mounted on bridges, overpasses, and other structures throughout streets and highways.

What this means is that we'll all be driving much more safely, the world will be less reliant on fossil fuels, our local governments will no longer be in debt, and insurance companies will know better how to serve us.

Transportation departments will be able to monitor traffic flows in real time. They can identify places where traffic is flowing much faster than the posted speed limits, and law enforcement officers can be dispatched to those areas, ensuring that all commuters are getting to their destinations safely.

Insurance companies will be able to view travel history for any specific automobile, noting miles travelled and speed limits breached, and adjusting premiums accordingly.

Taxation and revenue departments can even use this information to determine which drivers consume the most gasoline, allowing them levy tiered tax rates on the most glutton of drivers.

Motor vehicle departments can easily identify moving automobiles whose registrations have expired, generating an automated citation, and providing local governments with an easy method of boosting their revenues.

You think I'm being absurd? Take a look at the company's website, click on "Government", and read what it says.

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I thought it was going to say: detects speed cameras and changes the number to something else until you've passed them...

By Aldabra, at 10/08/2005 01:39:00 AM
Seriously. If it would detect when most drivers are going faster than the posted speed limit, so they could change the speed limit, I'd be all over it.

I sit in stop and go traffic so much I really don't think there should even be a speed limit in my area. It's not like we'd get to abuse it more than a few hours a day anyway.

By Anonymous, at 10/09/2005 01:15:00 PM
Seriously. If it would detect when most drivers are going faster than the posted speed limit, so they could change the speed limit, I'd be all over it.

I sit in stop and go traffic so much I really don't think there should even be a speed limit in my area. It's not like we'd get to abuse it more than a few hours a day anyway.

By Anonymous, at 10/09/2005 01:16:00 PM
Just what the poor bloo*y motorist needs. More monitoring. Great product. Not.

By Anonymous, at 7/03/2007 12:50:00 AM

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