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Title: High Tech Tags In Florida's Future
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URL Source: http://bbn.frn.com/fis/storydisplay.asp?site=&storyID=13628
Published: Nov 15, 2010
Author: Rick Flagg
Post Date: 2010-11-15 13:26:16 by Jethro Tull
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TALLAHASSEE, FLA. -- Florida's old-fashioned metal license plates may be getting a high-tech makeover. Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Director Julie Jones will be asking the Florida Legislature to authorize a pilot program to test new tags made of plastic polymers instead of metal. "We've been stamping out, with prisoners, for years license plates just like you see in the old movies," Jones said. "Technology is going to take us to a new place." The plastic tags have a computer chip that contains all of your registration information. So instead of changing the tag every five years, you just update the information on the chip. "So if we can use technology to put a tag in someone's hands for their lifetime, change the data, have them customize it, but still have it be useful for law enforcement, how much better could it be?" Jones said. The new plates can be printed as needed at your local tag office, so they won't have to keep a huge inventory of specialty plates like they do today. You can select your choice of backgrounds when you pay for the plate. They're also programmed to be tattle tale tags in order to help law enforcement. "If your plate expires, the chip automatically knows and displays 'expired' on the tag. So that makes it a lot easier for law enforcement," Jones said. "This is the wave of the future. We're getting sneaky."
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