On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:28:27 -0500, John H
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On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:56:06 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:24:15 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:58:20 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:43:21 -0600, Boating All Out
wrote:

In article ,
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The buyer still has to come up with a tag and the insurance is tied to
that tag. I can't speak for everywhere but the wrong tag on a care
around here is a "felony stop". ( get out of the car, lay on the
ground, don't make any fast moves) The assumption is you are up to no
good, car theft at the minimum but you could be a drug courier or
driving a getaway car.

This all sounds like a paranoid fantasy to me. Most illegals are going
back and forth to work. They avoid doing stupid things and are just
regular people trying to get by. Sure, sometimes there are hardened
criminals doing dirty deeds. This has nothing to do with most people.

Most people just buy insurance and do things by the book.
Co-ordination between insurance companies and DMV's have no doubt
caused some people to buy insurance when they would have previously gone
uninsured.
Some of those systems can probably be gamed too.
Illegals most often just ride with a legal motorist.
But anybody who doesn't care about the law for whatever reason can buy a
used car on the street and steal tags. Happens all the time.
The smarter ones avoid vanity plates like CUDDLY4U.
Just go with something like 154 823L.
Cops aren't running tags enough to affect that.
But it could happen.
The tollway cameras and red light cameras could be advanced to go real
time and notify nearby cops of hits on stolen tags and lack of insurance
coverage.
Matter of time and politics.
Some would consider it too "Big Brother."
There's already squawking about red-light cameras.
I have mixed feelings about it.
Might not bother me if I was running the show.
Don't know yet, as it hasn't affected me and I don't know enough about
it.


They are testing the camera in the cop car that scans tag here as we
speak. It uses OCR to read the tag, the on board computer runs it and
a few seconds later the cop has a message flashing on the screen
telling him everything there is to know about the car and the owner..
This is not just for insurance, it is also Amber alerts, stolen cars,
wants, warrants or whatever else you can glean from a tag or the owner
of that tag.
This is still in testing but expect it on a cop car near you soon ...
as soon as they justify the cost.

I noticed what appeared to be a radar gun mounted on the left rear bumper of a
Fairfax County Police car the other day. I wonder if that was the camera to
which you're referring.

Well...now I know. Glad you mentioned it.

http://www.elsag.com/detail.asp?i=195

Nincdepoop should get a charge out of that privacy invasion!


That is part of the problem. if they have your tag, the time and the
place from every camera you pass, tracking your every move becomes
increasingly doable. Of course if you have a new cell phone, they have
you anyway. You can turn off your phone but the tag will still be out
there.

I really believe tags will go away soon and you will just have an RFID
tag in your car that links to all of the databases

I've been pushing to have chips implanted in the necks of babies as they're
born, similar to those implanted in dogs and cats.

Then we wouldn't need all these damn cameras. Chips are cheap. They could even
be programmed so that medical procedures could be tracked. Once a set amount is
spent on healthcare, they explode.

Wouldn't need Obama's death panels then either.

:)

Maybe we could weed out people like you quicker. I'm all for it.