Malaysia to Use RFID Number Plates Next Year

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. "

Not groundbreaking

[Raindance]

This is not as groundbreaking as it would seem. I believe all new automobile tires in the U.S. come with unique, tamper-proof RFID chips in them already.

Re:Huh?

[Colgate2003]

There are both passive (no battery) and active (battery-assisted) tags. Want an example of an active RFID? Try EZ-Pass [ezpass.com].

Re:Not groundbreaking

[Tmack]

parent surely meant "Machiavellian"

Michelivellian?

bad puns aside: http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/269 /1/1/ [rfidjournal.com]

tm

i guess

[sleepsleep]

i guess it would works like this eg. when the thief steals a car, they would change the plate, (if that plate is without RFID tag) the police would probably double check the car and its owner, if the replaced plate got its own RFID tag, the police would check the car description based on that RFID tag, if it is correct, then they can pass the block, otherwise, the police would invite them to police station.

btw, the police could just drive along the road and just check everybody RFID tag and their car description without asking them to stop ;) and if the tag doesn't match the car, then they can ask the driver to stop :) i guess something like that ;)

Re:I don't get it.

[tilandal]

Your plates are registered to a VIN. They scan the plate to get the VIN from the RFID tag. They then look at the VIN on your car and if they don't match you go to jail.

Extensive surveillance in Norway

[Anonymous Coward]

Norway has been using the autopass system for about 8 years to charge a road-toll (http://www.autopass.no/om_autopass/english.stm [autopass.no]). The system is currently abused to collect "anonymized" information about traffick-flow in parts of the country (http://www2.geoweb.no/stilistisk/om_dynamit.html [geoweb.no])