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How is this going to be abused? Your car is scanned, it is a passive activity taking microseconds with out either your knowledge nor consent. If I am looking, I can see you. Those windows work both ways, ya know. If I know you, I may even wave at you as you drive by. Your plates are a unique indicator assigned to you and your car. Anyone can SEE that number. It's no big secret that the police use these licence numbers to track criminals. How does having license plates restrict you? How can those be 'abused'? All the RFID does, is allow computers to act as non-blinking eyes. They are observers only, they take no actions at all.

Then according to your argument, we don't need it at all as we already have the same thing in place now. You just want it to be faster. Sorry, I don't think you need it to be any faster.

They are increasingly using the plate to hand out tickets by your unblinking eye. Regardless of who is driving, the owner is getting the ticket. That is a fact you cannot deny and is an abuse of the system.There are several scenarios in this thread that show the potential for abuse, you are just refusing to acknowledge them. So I guess you're hopeless.

From looking at this thread I would say the majority feel this is an intrusion and could be used in a matter that could make you guilty before proven innocent. I don't think that is what this country is about. Why is it you think technology should send us in that direction? Is it your intention, like the current DemoncRats, the minority should rule because "they" are the elite, and know what is good for the majority? That certainly appears to be your attitude.

Don't try to read into things, simply look at them from the logical and practical aspects. If we KNEW each other, then we could try to guess what the other is thinking; but as this is a quick blog, that just doesn't work.

Yes, I want things faster, I want things more efficient. I see nothing wrong with fast and efficient. We could hire a gazillion more cops to write down and communicate who goes where; or we can have a simple RFID system.

If your car is stolen, the system filters the VOLUMES of data, looking for your RFID. If we have a child snatched, we have the ability to find that vehicle; hopefully BEFORE something bad happens. If this system were in place, how far do you think Joseph E. Duncan would have gotten with Shasta Groene before getting caught? How many stolen cars would be found, with the thief at the wheel? How many drug distributors could be traced to their source?

Do you think anyone cares how many PTA meetings I go to?

Now, we 'could' continue to do this manually; depending upon alert waitresses and suspicious cops, or we can use existing technology. I'll sacrifice automated surveillance over human lives every single time.

Let's not forget that those evil automated surveillance cameras SUCCESSFULLY identified some Islamic terrorists in Britain. How many innocent people would have died if not for those devices?