New card system just the ticket for paying traffic fines

Beijing motorists who break traffic rules will soon be able to pay their fines on the spot.

A testing program for paying penalties via so-called point of sales (POS) machines finished on Monday by the Beijing traffic management bureau and the Beijing branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC).

The POS devices, which will be carried by traffic police, link to a host machine to retrieve penalty information and deduct payments from drivers' accounts.