Progress Energy To Start Installing "Wireless Meters"

This report is from Raleigh, NC, but it is happening slowly but surely in San Antonio as well:

The new automated meters will broadcast a signal that can be read from a truck or other vehicle seveal feet away, allowing the meter reader to literally drive through the area to find out your power usage for the month. Progress Energy hopes that it will cut down on the meter readers it needs to hire, since it often relies on outside independent contractors to do the job currently.

I am an "outside independent contractor." I have a feeling my days are numbered, but the big changeover will probably take at least a couple of more years to be complete. We'll see.