City Department of Transportation Commissioner said Wednesday that technology like automatic license plate readers is the answer to cracking down on the rampant abuse of parking placards in the Big Apple.

“There is no question that placards are a big challenge in the city and in a way it’s also, again, one of the symptoms of the huge growth of the city,” Polly Trottenberg said while speaking at a Crain’s New York Business event forum at The New York Athletic Club.

“The placard counterfeiting industry is astonishing in this town…we are always cracking down on placard counterfeit scams,” the DOT commissioner during the hour-long event.

Trottenberg added that a long-term solution to this problem “is going to be something like license plate readers…I think that’s the way cities are going to go in the future and I think that will be the solution here.”

“We’re starting to put the pieces of that technology together,” she continued.

Trottenberg later told reporters that the “big technological jump” will be a “long-term solution on the placard challenge…The nice thing about license plate readers is it’s a very efficient way to check a bunch of vehicles on a street, and take out the human element.”

The automatic license plate readers, Trottenberg said, “would do away with the ability to make counterfeit placards because a car that has a placard would be enrolled in the program, you would have the license plate. So if you just had a fake placard on your dashboard and it wasn’t the right license plate, you would get a ticket.”

Last year, the city Department of Investigation started a probe into placard abuse and Mayor de Blasio created an “anti-placard fraud unit.”

The task force, Trottenberg said, has “done a lot of ticketing. They have towed a lot of vehicles. Between DOT and the NYPD we have really cracked down on placard abusers and taken placards away sometimes when people have been misusing them.”

“With that said,” Trottenberg went on, “I’m the first to admit we have a long way to go.”

Speaking to reporters, Trottenberg doubled down on the license plate reader idea, saying, “I do think technology can really help us, particularly on cracking down on invalid and counterfeit placards.”

“No doubt, it’s going to take us a few years to get there,” she said.

Under current city law, the potential license plate readers would not be able to replace ticket agents, according to Trottenberg.