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I'm betting that will cut down on speeders since automated ticketing will be as easy as a receiver that matches the certificate with the car and automatically issues a ticket.

Also it will enable passive average speed enforcement. "You were in LA and Vegas, and exceeded the minimum time to legally travel there".

The ID is a randomly generated 4 byte integer. This is obviously not identifying for law enforcement. I don't know about the certificates if they could be identifying but I'm not seeing a way to track down an owner or operator from this otherwise.

It's a tool that will be used to raise revenue (tax $/mile/minute) and drive people away from personally owned vehicles to a more expensive robot Uber future.

Except the driver of the car is liable for the ticket, not the car or its owner.

Which is a huge safety benefit.

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