RFID for bikes- WTF?

Found in aus.cars:

QLD's Road Safety Forum

Over two days, program available here:
http://www.roadsafety.qld.gov.au/summit

Listen in LIVE here, choose Chamber Audio:
http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/chamber/

Topics to time index:
Some items to come under discusson, from opening speaches by Premier
and Transport Minister:

* Radio frequency identification of motorbikes for speed enforcement.
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Who's crazy-arsed idea is this?

 

it would have to be with point to point speed enforcement and lack of front
number plates

apart from this , it would make sense to have this sort of thing to combat
unregistered vehicles

and qute possibly to do with parking fines

 

Point to point speed enforcement is the 'new big thing'. They've been
doing it to heavy vehicles on major roads for a while. The government
tend to introduce new items that they reckon will be unpopular with
smaller groups of vehicle users first, then follow with the mainstream
later.

0% BAC for heavy vehicle drivers and P Platers is an example... I'd
expect the general public to be pulled in line with this at some point
(if they can do it without hurting votes too much).

Point to Point speed monitoring for heavy vehicles, and now motorbikes
suggested... with the eventual intention of dragging all drivers into
the net eventually (if it can be done without hurting votes too much of
course).

This is only the start of the electronic vehicle monitoring 'wedge'
people... it'll get _lots_ more intrusive as the years go by *sigh*.


G-S

 

I have been riding with a point to point speed control device for years

A two hour bladder!

Boxer

 

That's a time-dependent device.

But easily circumvented with an appropriate length of rubber hose.

 

That'd piss you off


G-S

 

so have i , farken fuel tanks cant tour

well and truely

 

I think you can get them at a police station.

Theo

 

Or extremely high speed (I beleive the Space shuttle can get around the
earth inside of 2 hours)
)

 

Beattie is desparate to remove the spotlight from Health, is what it tells
me. They've been throwing all sorts of wild ideas around, the press has
been having a minor feeding frenzy off them, Beattie gets his mug on telly
and in the paper a few more times a day for what the public is supposed to
perceive as him doing something good, and the press are leaving the
hospitals alone for a couple of days.

cynical J

 

Spot on!

Boxer

 

Yeahbut, at least they're keeping us safe from terrorism.

GB

 

hehe, and this on the day Victorian premier Steve Bracks opened an emergency
services complex in Diamond Creek, looked into a cell and said "There's
something missing... phone books"
Joe M.

 

A couple of weeks ago the legend Leunig had a cartoon of a house menaced
by a bushfire, with the wife imploring the husband "Go back and save the
anti-terrorism fridge magnet!"

Cheers
Goaty

 

You may scoff, but since I've had that magnet I've not lost
so much as a single drop of beer to the terrorists.

GB

 

Also protects against trampling by soaking wet pachyderms!

Cheers
Goaty