Barcodes

[dibbers006]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 18 December 2023 at 12:22

[jjones]

bit hard to id the car to police when you have been knocked over in a hit and run

[JamesNotJim]

"Yes officer, I saw a silver car drive away after hitting the child. I got a good look at the number plate..."

[Perd Hapley]

Also why do we still have to stick bits of coloured paper in our car windscreens when the whole thing's databases now?

[edo]

Bar-codes too hard to read from a distance and at speed.

But RFID (active) now that would be effective.

[edo]

JamesNotJim said:

"Yes officer, I saw a silver car drive away after hitting the child. I got a good look at the number plate..."

Fat one, thin one, fat one thin one, fat one, fat one, thin one thin one etc

[turbopug]

Perd Hapley said:

Also why do we still have to stick bits of coloured paper in our car windscreens when the whole thing's databases now?

Because they're easy for the po po to glance at, having to look up every number plate of every car at a checkpoint to check if it was taxed would take up too much time.

Besides, printing tax discs keeps people in jobs. The government have to spend all that tax money somewhere. It's not like it's being spent upkeeping the roads properly.

[Perd Hapley]

The DVLA did study the idea of electronic number plates a few years ago, using RFID tags. Nothing came of it for whatever reason but you can read the report online (google it)

[Perd Hapley]

turbopug said:

Because they're easy for the po po to glance at, having to look up every number plate of every car at a checkpoint to check if it was taxed would take up too much time.

Besides, printing tax discs keeps people in jobs. The government have to spend all that tax money somewhere. It's not like it's being spent upkeeping the roads properly.

If they're only checking the easily stolen/forged bits of paper as proof of tax/insurance they may as well not bother.