Electronic car numbers will appear in California

California Governor Jerry Brown is preparing to sign a law approved by the State Senate, starting a program on researching the use of electronic numbers on cars.



Technically, the solution is not difficult - electronic numbers are simple displays mounted on the rear and front bumper of a car. The obvious new feature is another - the ability to display both official and possibly advertising information on such numbers. For example, nothing prevents you from displaying its current status on a car: “In the hijacking”, “Registration deadline has expired” or something else like that; moreover, this will be dealt with remotely by the relevant authorities - the police or the State Department of Motor Vehicles.



From the point of view of the authorities, this approach has obvious advantages: first, the manipulation in high-tech numbers requires relatively high qualifications, not comparable to the one required to unscrew the old numbers and hang fake with a screwdriver, and therefore the possibility of fraud or fraud should to decline. Secondly, the process of registering new cars will be significantly simplified and economically beneficial - as an illustration of this fact, the following is given: postal costs associated with registration (printing and distribution of stickers, registration cards and other things) require more than $ 20 million from the authorities every year. in this case, most of them can be avoided. Thirdly, tracking cars (which has been done for a long time) with the help of cameras will become virtually unnecessary since electronic numbers will be able to identify themselves.

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It should be noted that everything will be done rather carefully so as not to cause a surge of suspicion regarding the new ability to track the movement of car owners in the light of recent spy scandals - the moment that no private information will be collected will be declared in a special way. The introduction of electronic numbers will begin with the official machines of companies such as UPS or FedEX and will not affect private individuals for the time being; in total, only 0.5% of the registered cars in the state will participate in the experiment.



The conclusion regarding the expediency of electronic numbers should be made no later than January 1, 2017.



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