Scary thoughts .01

How long will it be before every car has a built-in transponder that transmits the car’s identity to nearby receivers like the ones on toll roads?

Then each city will put in readers at intersections and totally put a stop to all those jerks who run red lights to save a few seconds. You can imagine the hew and cry though when people realize that their cars can now be tracked almost everywhere? Someone would of course want to analyze all that data that shows how fast you drive and how often you change lanes, what freeways you take, etc.

The next thing will be having to insert your driver’s license into a card reader in the dash before you can start the car. Naturally that information would also be included in the transponder signal so not only would the DMV know where your car is, they would know where you are too. So now, someone will know what your movements were when you were supposed to be at work, how many times a year you go to Mexico, Vegas, Ben & Jerrys.

Come to think of it, that’s really scary to think that the DMV would eventually become part of the DHS (Dept. of Homeland Security) and one of the most powerful data gatherers in the world.
Didn’t I see something like that in the movie AI? You know it’s going to happen eventually...