Now here's a scary thought. This website: "www.RFID2VIN.com" proposes the use of RFID chips that would be left at the scene of "hit and run" accidents. According to their email to me, these unique identifiers would then act as a sort of "automotive DNA," providing the registration information for that particular vehicle.
I perused their website very quickly (could use a web designer IMO) and it appears this involves embedding RFIDs in the paint, bumpers, headlamps, etc. Then when you get into an accident, the RFIDs are dislodged and left at the scene which can be used to determine the car's position at the time of the accident to determine fault, as well as whose car it is in the event of a "hit and run".
I'm sure the ACLU will be all over this...
RFID to Identify "Hit and Run" Perpetrators?
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The ACLU doesn't need to worry about this one. The car manu's and DMV's will begin implanting devices on cars? Please, they have enough problems w/o the cost, admin headache and public backlash this would produce.
If you want to talk RFID aside from supply chain which gets most of the attention these days, some of the asset management possibilities are a lot more interesting and feasible IMO.
Sad days for CT basketball lately, but we'll be back next year.
Agreed. I doubt RFID implants will happen in cars. But who knows what sort of government intervention could happen in the future.
Maybe one day we'll all have chips implanted at birth and evangelicals will claim this is the mark of the beast?
No one knows what the future holds.
As for CT basketball, I assume you read my bio. Yep, a UCONN grad. Men underperformed and the women played better than any one expected. Great coaching by Geno - though I thought if they switched to a zone against Stanford they could have won. Ah well. No use Monday quarterbacking.
I predict both UCONN men and women will be pre-season #1 picks. Actually, not entirely my prediction, I heard the same thing on TV, but it's pretty obvious prediction.
Me too, class of '87! Getting to be the only sport I truly care about, which made this tourney tough... spoiled, as that report for the Courant said.
OK, back to topic -- I think government will be prevented from acting here by the public. Nothing motivates the public like fear (unfortunately and negatively in most cases), but in the current climate that aversion to gov't snooping will protect us. Caveat is if we get hit again by terrorists, and fear for personal safety outweighs fear of losing our freedoms at home.
If you think this is "big brother" read about the government's "Intelligent Transportation System" (or "ITS").
The Department of Transportation has already spent billions on it and major segments are now completed.
The government will be able to track you everywhere you go in your vehicle with the use of DSRC or "dedicated short range communication."
At least this system is passive (very limited read range of its RFID chips.) And you have to dislodge the chips in order for them to be read--meaning you have to have been in an accident.
By the way, the government has been working on the ITS for the past ten years.
Have you heard about it?