EZ Pass and the fast lane ....

[Roy M. Silvernail]

Jerrold Leichter wrote:

>How long before license plates have transponders built into them?  After all,
>it's long-established law that you can be required to place an identifier on
>your car when it's on the public roads - why's there a difference between one
>that responds at optical frequencies and one that responds at a couple of
>gigahertz?  (For that matter, even if you want to stick to optical and you
>can't get plate reading accurate enough, the technology for reading bar codes
>from moving vehicles is well-developed - it's been used for years to identify
>railroad cars, and many gated communities use them to open the gates for cars
>owned by residents.)
>  
>
An infrared-reflective bar code would not be visible to the naked eye.  
That would probably slip past the proles for a good while before the 
word got out.  And once the infrastructure is in place, it would be hard 
to dislodge.

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