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Re: Drive the SF Central



 >>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.

 In> It's possible today, and probably affordable.  If not, it will be in
 In> 1-2 years, as Moore's law cranks down processing costs and video
 In> technology improves. For this application, they don't have to
 In> photograph every car, or read every plate successfully, or do it in
 In> real time.  The objective is to get lots of drivers to take other
 In> routes or mass transit so they don't have to dump all the traffic onto
 In> surface streets right around the construction. 

 Wasn't there something about these cameras in the latest 2600?
 (BTW, there was also alot of information on encryption in the
 issue, too.)


 P.J.
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