2007-05-14

Big Brother Rekeningrijden

Op het eiland Bermuda wordt een syteem geintroduceerd waarbij iedere auto en motor voorzien wordt van een RFID tag, zodat de autoriteiten op iedere moment precies kunnen traceren waar de geregistreerde auto's op het eiland zich bevinden
Bermuda's Transport Control Department, a division of the tiny string of island's Ministry of Tourism, announced May 7 that it plans to automate vehicle registration, compliance and enforcement with an island-wide deployment of EVR (electronic vehicle registration). The EVR system is made up of RFID tags, antennas, readers and a database system.

Over the next five years, the program is expected to generate over $11 million in lost fees from unlicensed and uninsured vehicles, according to a press release. At the same time TCD expects to reduce the number of non-compliant vehicles on the island's roadways to less than 1 percent, officials said.