Engadget's Evan Blass reports that Bermuda has announced plans to "slap RFID tags on every single car, truck and motorcycle in the country, in an effort to exert more control over a road system which is said to carry the world's highest density per square mile of motor traffic."
"Consisting of vehicle-mounted transmitters and portable and stationary readers, the so-called electronic vehicle registration system promises to reduce the number of non-compliant vehicles on the road to below one percent while at the same time recouping some $11 million in fines that would otherwise have been lost over a five year period," Blass writes. "To stifle privacy concerns, Bermuda's Transport Control Department mandated that the 3M-built tags only contain vehicle-specific data, and not personal driver information."
More here from PhysOrg ... more here from Coolest Gadgets ... and more here from Wired Blogs.
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