https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/2019-china-vehicle-rfid-chip-surveillance-dystopia/

If that sounds super-scary and weird to you, you're not alone. The program is ostensibly being used to generate data that will help alleviate China's hellacious traffic, but critics of the plan say that it will also likely be used as another powerful tool for domestic surveillance by the Chinese government.

The Chinese government's move to equip all cars with RFID chips to be scanned is ostensibly a move to help alleviate the country's notoriously bad traffic.