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Originally Posted by Altavia
Agree completely, was responding to the second post implying they are testing the long range RFID headlight stickers.
I've seen no evidence of the transponders but they recently upgraded the gate hardware - we'll see if anything materializes.
Seems unlikely they will enable automatic gate opening since that would disrupt the illusion of a gated community.
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Originally Posted by Altavia
The strips are relatively expensive compared to the cards. I can't imagine a scenario where they force everyone to replace their cards with headlight strips
Suspect the card system would remain in place with the long range strip being an optional up charge.
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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
I would be happy to pay an upcharge. I wish they would stop talking about it and just do it.
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What I took away from the last PWAC meeting where the strips were discussed:
- There is a separate reader for the long-range functionality
- the recent upgrades did not change the reader
- the long-range functionality will require installing a separate reader at each gate
- The system is currently being tested at two or three gates
- The system being tested is the second one they have tried (didn't hear why the first was undesirable)
- They were talking about a charge for the new, long-range strips
- The strips work on one vehicle only, they cannot be reused when you purchase a new car
- If the long-range readers work out then eventually (long time from now?) everyone will be transitioned to the new strips