Re: Drive the SF Central Freeway, have your license plate photo'ed.

[shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)]

At 11:56 8/9/96, 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,

I know that there are video cameras on the freeway. I also know that
reading license plate must be trivial, since I saw such systems abroad
years ago. In fact, in Europe, where cameras are ubiquitous in inner
cities, face recognition is the latest fad.



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