[LINK] RFID Smart Cards for Carshare

[Tom Worthington]

Bringing together a couple Link threads, in Sydney recently I noticed 
six Mercedes "smart" cars, stacked about 12m high on a steel framework.

This seemed more like a sculpture than a solution to inner city 
parking. It turned out to be a promotion for a car sharing scheme 
which uses RFID smart cards for people to unlock share cars parked at 
inner city locations. Such systems used specialized software, RFID 
tags and contactless smart cards.

Photo and description at 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/transport/carshare.shtml>.

Perhaps when you order the containerized prefabricated home at the 
EcoCity, it could come with a car already in the garage 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/2001/sa/ecocity.shtml>.  ;-)



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