Digital License Plates?

Question. Whatever happen and what's wrong with the overhead lighted highway info signs that dot certain cities? They're a hell of a lot easier to read then a license plate!
 
I LIKE & PREFER THE EL-CHEEPO CARDBOARD ONES

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Seeing the popularity of vanity plates I'm sure there will be allot of takers. Personally, I pay New York, (or FL for that matter), enough in what I'm obligated to do, don't want to add any more voluntarily.
 
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License plate readers.
Traffic cams.
Red light cameras.
Speeding cameras.
Black box recorders.
GPS tracking.
Cell phone tracking.
And now these stupid plates.


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GJS said:
Collector plates aren't terrible here either in and of themselves. It's all the crap you need to do to display year correct plates ... and the taxes and all the other Connecticut garbage.
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Correct vintage year plates on a vehicle are a real nice touch, and worth the hassle..........
 
And now... introducing.... the next gen distraction tool! but not to worry, soon all cars will be driverless!!!
 
mr. fix it said:
And now... introducing.... the next gen distraction tool! but not to worry, soon all cars will be driverless!!!
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If you read tween the lines, car manufacturers are planning on the future where there isn't private vehicle ownership but "Shared Transportation Resources". :rolleyes:

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Carmine said:
Done. But the plates would probably help for the old-timey carbon unit-driven cars.

In the words of the Specialty Equipment Manufacturer’s Association (SEMA), the vast umbrella organization representing automotive industry parts and equipment suppliers, OBD III is “A program to minimize the delay between detection of an emissions malfunction by the OBD-II system and repair of the vehicle.”

And how will that be accomplished? Rather than merely store trouble codes, OBDII will immediately transmit those trouble codes to The Man – who will then proceed to first warn you (via letter or e-mail) to have the car repaired, stepping up to more aggressive enforcement if you fail to do so in the form of “citations… court and/or DMV penalty at next registration.”

It would also be possible to send the info directly to any nearby cop, who would then pull you over immediately – saving the government some time while making some more money off motorists.

This is not sci-fi. It’s impending reality. All the technical issues have been solved. Most new cars already come with GPS systems capable of receiving and sending data. It would be a simple matter to salt the roads with scanners capable of ID’ing every car that passes by, automatically establishing a communications link with your car’s computer. This would occur continuously and constantly, too – not just every once-in-a-while. OBD III as envisioned would literally make it possible to constantly monitor and record every vehicle so equipped, from the moment it left the driveway to the moment it returned at night.
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Stupid steel beats smart plastic!
The idea of 24/7 monitoring was mentioned. Consider this, I have a FitBit watch that monitors heart rate, distance walked, elevation changes. The watch collects this data continuously, when I get close to my computer the watch syncs to it and dumps the current set of readings. The computer sucks them up and uploads everything to a FitBit cloud database for permanent storage and all sorts of data mining. Nothing stopping the same process for use in cars and trucks with periodic reader embedded in roadways. I can can invision trucking companies wanting this to track every truck and driver 24/7. I don't think the near future will be much fun anymore.
 
3C's & a D? said:
"The license plate hadn't been updated in over 125 years". Why is that? James Bond doesn't need the plate flip mod any longer. First guys to buy will be the "must haves" and shady I.T. guys looking to hack it.
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

We have those flat printed aluminum abominations in Nebraska and Iowa. Not only do they look fake (especially to those not used to seeing them), they aren't very durable, either. Law enforcement complains that the fonts on some are hard to read.
 
Fury440 said:
Stupid steel beats smart plastic!
The idea of 24/7 monitoring was mentioned. Consider this, I have a FitBit watch that monitors heart rate, distance walked, elevation changes. The watch collects this data continuously, when I get close to my computer the watch syncs to it and dumps the current set of readings. The computer sucks them up and uploads everything to a FitBit cloud database for permanent storage and all sorts of data mining. Nothing stopping the same process for use in cars and trucks with periodic reader embedded in roadways. I can can invision trucking companies wanting this to track every truck and driver 24/7. I don't think the near future will be much fun anymore.
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I sometimes have fantasies about a "Tower of Babel" Internet virus that pretty much would make e-commerce a thing of the past. Not that I expect that to happen, of course.
 
Personally I wish plates were a bar code that could only be read [if necessary] by the police. When I'm traveling, nobody needs to know whether or not I'm a local, hoodlums might try some funny business.
 
Carmine said:
That's crazy. If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.









I just wanted to say that.
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I'm waiting for the insurance companies to start making the OBDII monitor required as part of their coverage.
 
Fury440 said:
The computer sucks them up and uploads everything to a FitBit cloud database for permanent storage and all sorts of data mining
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And that data of 24/7 heart rate could be sold to Health Insurance Companies to deny you insurance.

If your cell phone GPS and on your FitBit indicates that your heart rate fell into a preset range that includes a heart attack while driving, it will notify OnStar which will alert you in your 2019 Silverado and give you directions on the GPS screen to the nearest hospital where a Cardiac team will be waiting for you.

Or prove you were at the same location of a murder.
 
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