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Starting Tuesday, New Yorkers will be able to buy new driver’s licenses containing a radio chip that will let them travel between the U.S. and Canada or Mexico without a passport.

The new Enhanced Drivers License, which will cost an additional $30 on top of the standard $50 license fee, also will allow those on boats or ships to travel to Bermuda and Caribbean nations without a passport.

Starting in June, federal law will dictate that passports or other proof of citizenship — or an enhanced license — will be needed to visit neighboring countries, including Canada and Mexico.

Once you wouldn’t leave home without it. But the credit card could soon be cashing in its chips.

Experts predict that paying by plastic will make way for payments by mobile phone, key fob or even fingerprint.

Like the cheque book, video cassette and CD before it, the plastic credit card could be on the way out within five years, according to leading financiers.

Yesterday Barclaycard, which introduced the UK’s first credit card in 1966, announced it was pouring millions into developing ‘contactless payment technology’.

The group has already developed a credit card that can be read without having to be taken out of a wallet.

It hopes to take contactless payments a step further with chips that can be inserted into mobile phones, enabling shoppers to buy items by simply holding their handsets over them.