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Re: Drive the SF Central Freeway, have your license plate photo'ed.
It's been doable and afforadable for years. 7 years ago when I lived in
Knoxville TN there was(still is?) a firm there called Perceptics. One of
their products was an imaging system to OCR license plates. I understood
the system was/is in use or being tested at US border crossings.
>Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 11:56:34 -0700 Bill Stewart wrote:
>At 10:45 PM 8/8/96 -0700, Lucky wrote:
>>At 21:55 8/8/96, i am not a number! wrote:
>>>CBS radio news this morning: 80,000 commuters traveling the central
>>>f'way in SF will have information mailed to them regarding the quake retrofit
>>>How? Their license plates have been photographed.
>
>>You *are* making this up, right? Please say you did.
>
>It's possible today, and probably affordable. If not, it will be in 1-2 years,
>as Moore's law cranks down processing costs and video technology improves.
>For this application, they don't have to photograph every car, or read every
>plate successfully, or do it in real time. The objective is to get lots of
>drivers to take other routes or mass transit so they don't have to dump all
>the traffic onto surface streets right around the construction.
>
>Besides, this is nice friendly San Francisco. Imagine New York City doing it:
> Yo! Mr. E. Koch, 1234 E. 89th St. -
> We saw you takin' the West Side Highway last week.
> You better stop that as of next Friday.
> We know where you live.
> You got a problem wit' that?
> Rudy.
>
># Thanks; Bill
># Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 [email protected]
># <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Defuse Authority!
>
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