While there are several obvious benefits that could be derived from this idea I don't think I want to make it easier for the police to give me traffic tickets. I'm always going at least 5 miles an hour over the limit and I don't want to slow down.

What if you had a six pac of beer and two cans were detected in the truck and four were detected under your seat? There is a case to send your RRRRR to jail. You will go to jail even if you had those beers two days before while you were working on your car while it sat in your own lot. Tagzapp the cans!!!!!

I think its a good idea. However, Americans have a HUGE hangup with their right to privacy.

Personally, if it were up to me I wound put rfid readers in the speed detectors already on many highways (for traffic centers to tell the average speed). That way tickets could be issued to the vehicle owner instantaniously. This would also make car chases obsolete as the police could just read the VIN when the car was close enough to a cop car or went over a sensor then just use the other sensors to track it. If a crime occured and the police wasn't sure which vehicle it was they could track all the vehicles that went over the sensor for a few minutes after the crime. Going one step further if they would add a remote kill switch to the system they could read the ID then kill the engine.

I can see where you're going and it is more secure, but at the same time there are privacy advocates that would refuse it, and eventually before you know it it'll be like Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.

RFIDsters, that's going too far... If someone is intoxicated on verifiable scale (e.g. failing sobriety test), fine, but let's just say my oil changes aren't complete without a bottle of Michelob. Other scenarios are if a passenger was drinking, or just so happened you were (for example) at a tailgate party and haven't cleaned the car yet, or even mistakenly going off when you simply bought some beer from the market; nothing more nothing less... There's tons more scenarios that'll pull more innocent people than guilty... Particularly when holding cells around major cities get maxed out and costs tons in taxes to go to court.

This is 1984 all over again. No, I don't want the law enforced. If the cops know all about you then they will find some reason to bust you! It is as simple as that. We have to fight for our freedom.

i seen a show on tv once. they were trying that sort of thing out.

the police car visually scanned every car within view and searched it thru the database.

problem is, these cars cost like half a mill each

Big brother knows too much about me already.

Your plan has only detriment and no benefit to drivers. Why would I keep an RFID tag functioning in my car if the only thing it could get me is a ticket when my insurance isn't paid up.

A law can require that you have a license plate and people comply because it's easy for you or an officer to verify if you have one, but there's no way a person or officer can be expected to verify a car has a tag and it's working. There's no positive way to prove it's not there, since it could be blocked by metal in the car. Rail cars have to have them in a specific place and on both sides and the readers still miss them often enough that trains are read twice.

But trains and pets etc have tags to benefit the users. Your plan would only place the tags to penalize the users. And like others have said, they would decrease your privacy.

There are optical character recognition systems that operate from a police cruiser's dash that currently actually read all of the license plates that the camera has view of and check them in.

Also, RF is energy and if you're just blasting it into space for a silly reason, you're wasting energy and giving people cancer at the same time.