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Used in airports
By damage75 on 7/20/2011 9:55:25 PM , Rating: 2
Where this tech is seriously used is airports. By seriously, I mean in every major airport every car that comes in/out has the plate read. This has a couple of benefits (for the good guys):

1) If you lose your parking ticket, it doesn't really matter, but if you steal a car (mismatching ID with "in" record) it matters a lot.

2) If the plate has been BOLO'ed, well, they found you.

3) If you try to switch plates in the airport lot, for whatever reason, you're toast, since the more advanced systems link the plate with the car parameters.

There are other things going on too, including periodic scans of parked cars with a mobile unit. This allows abandoned cars to be tagged. You would be amazed at how many people lose their cars in big airports. With this system they can take you right to it.

So while I'm *not* in favor of red-light, or even highway, electronic tagging, doing it in an airport is actually a good idea.

One other thing, not yet implemented afaik; Don't be surprised if that same system has a picture of the driver pulling the ticket. I'll let you use your imagination on that.

