On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:00:58PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
(Don't you feel much safer, already?)
Not really...
Such license plate recognition systems, fixed and mobile, already are stopping criminals in cars in New York City, Washington D.C. and 23 states, according to Mark Windover, president of Remington ELSAG Law Enforcement Systems, which is marketing its product to 250 U.S. police agencies.
I'm really surprised that license plates aren't already explicitly machine-readable. How hard would it be to overprint a barcode that only shows up when scanned with IR? No OCR problems, and you still get the "advantages" of a passive tracking system, except more accurate. -- Roy M. Silvernail is roy@rant-central.com, and you're not "Angry men in combat fatigues talking to God on a two-way radio and muttering incoherent slogans about freedom are eventually going to provide us with a great deal of entertainment." - George Carlin CRM114->procmail->/dev/null->bliss http://www.rant-central.com