At 07:09 PM 5/31/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ># This test evaluates the use of automatic ># vehicle identification (AVI) technology as an ># incident detection tool. The system consists ># of AVI "tag" readers which allow vehicles ># equipped with transponders to serve as traffic ># probes to identify potential incidents by ># comparing actual to predicted travel times ># between readers. > >You are now a traffic probe, using your electronic license plate. All your surveillance worries are valid, but realize that by virtue of your magnetic permeability, or your opacity for optical sensors, you are already a traffic probe. That's how the highway folks monitor problems. They measure density and speed. Combine them, you get flow. Using electronic readers to track flow is not inherently evil, IMHO. Cpunx-approved-vehicles will have faraday glove boxes to hold your cell phone and now your EZtracker. That hood-mounted magnetron just gets more and more useful.
