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["Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

I forgot to add, trucks are now using a similar technology.  As you approach
the scales you see a couple of transponders hanging overhead.  As the truck
approaches a query result in a serial number.  The scales can query the
company database to check for violations and hours of service.  Some states
are looking at this to issue speeding tickets.  Other states use a similar
system to pay road tolls.

Governments have been pushing for years to require AVI or Automatic Vehicle
Identification.  This will be a transponder on all vehicles with readers all
over the place.  That way they can dispense with traffic cops altogether and
just mail you the speeding ticket.  So far that idea has not gotten much
traction though it was an attempt to slip it into various home land snooping
bills.

Don Bowen  KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html