"Matthew Church" wrote in message
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"By 2004, the DVLA aims to have merged driver, vehicle and insurance
records into a "single or virtually single" database from which the
number-plate microchips will be programmed".

http://www.geocities.com/lclane2/microchips.html

Anyone have any updates on how this plan is getting along?

I would guess that this has been consigned to the bin, as numberplate
recognition cameras have proved
succesfull and are likely to be more useful than transponders.
As said in another part of the thread, the transponders would work much like
the product identifying labels in supermarkets and
id chips inserted into pets. To read them you need to be in reasonable
proximity to the device - so a scanner on a set of barriers
that a car passes thru (like a toll gate) would work well, but scanning a
vehicle from a motorway bridge would be next to impossible.

Automatic plate reading linked to DVLA computers is effective and can be
used over a much greater range, the police are using it every day of the
week up here in Wolverhampton.

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Marc Brett wrote:

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:42:26 +0000, Mike wrote:

In message , Matthew
Maddock writes

Or you could simply fake a plate that looks like a real one - so how will
the "automatic detection" know if a car is there or not ?

Because the device reading the microchip will not detect its existence in
the plate. Simple - if it ain't there, then it is fake!

From the transponder reader's pov, what's the difference between a car
without a transponder and an empty space without a transponder?

Mass? Temerature? Capacitance?

Radar cross-section?

And as for actions taken on detecting an untagged or illegal vehicle:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m93.htm

tom

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That'll be why the government can't stop Citroen from fitting asbestos
brake pads then.

I'm sorry?

a. Citroen don't make brake pads.
b. Citroen brake pads don't differ from Peugeot brake bads.
c. Asbestos brake pads haven't been manufactured for years. For any
manufacturer. OEM or pattern.
d. That's nothing to do with the UK government anyway. Type approval's EU
wide.