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Microchipped number plates
"Paul Robson" wrote in message news On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 03:22:13 -0800, Matthew Church wrote: "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? Well, the last I heard (and there's about 45 days left in 2004) you couldn't buy Microchipped plates. If true it's a typical Public Sector IT project i.e. it doesn't work. It will annoy a lot of people, and the chips will be as tamper proof as the others, i.e. not at all. Or people will simply bust them (can you imagine the amount of hammering electronics on a car number plate will take). 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 ? How will it cope with people who are insured rather than cars - people on company insurance ? How will it know the driver is insured to drive the car - all it will know is that there is *some* insurance on the car. It can't surely store "insurance validity" - if you cancel insurance will you detach the plates and take them in so they can be reprogrammed ? What will happen regarding foreign registered vehicles ? Getting Microchips for £1.00 is no problem ; hell they are cheaper than that. Getting something that will work and keep working for £1.00 is a different matter entirely. And that is why all cars should have a tachometer, that is taken into the post office every year and any outstanding speeding fines , parking tickets and indicator abuse can be payed up to date with neccasary points added to your licence etc etc etc. Thus the post office would survive the criminal car driver would'nt thrive, and more pedestrians would stay alive. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.781 / Virus Database: 527 - Release Date: 21/10/2004 |
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