Plate Identification tool
 

That was interesting, good post. :smilie_da

great find, thats what i call state of the art

I wonder how it would react to vehicles with sanded or covered with dark tint cover..

thats nice... but i would give him a ticket for no seatbelt lol:retard:

ouch that gunna hurt....but its crazy

Wow who would have thought that it would come to something like that, good idea to get those loosers off the streets with no insurance that make me pay more for mine. :smilie_da

big brother is watching...

only thing i dont like about it, is who is to say this cant be used against you. let me give an example most people here could identify with.

all a cop has to do, is go to a meet/tim hortons parking lot on a friday night, roll by and click "start recording possible street racers" and make a couple of passes.
then your is in the system as 'hot' under the street ricer folder. later you get pulled over and hassled for racing because you were in the system. and even if they say "we dont use it like that" whats stopping them from doing so without ever telling you/the public?

now the following is purely hypothetical, but just imagine what this kind of technology is paving the road to, especially in this post 9/11 'hand over your freedoms' era:

Coupled with GPS, every hit of a plate the camera logs, it could also record a location. doesnt seem like much, but imagine it when every passing cop car is equipped with it and running it full time, and over a period of say 12 to 36 months, they have a solid database of 'hits' theyve generated on where your car has been 'hit'...thats starting to invade my privacy.
then if the technology evolved typically, it becomes improved over time, the device is signficantly smaller and cheaper to produce
Over time all it has to do is prove its worth on one cop car alone. Imagine what this means for the already lazy patrol cops. theyll have a computer 'scanning' the general automotive populas and doing something they could physically never accomplish. youll have politicians and police alike singing its praises and lobbying to get it placed on every cop, fire and emergency vehicle, so youre tagging plates everywhere. put one on every major intersection and hwy overpass, and your movements can be tracked almost as easily as if you had a GPS running....
but this is all assuming theyre using it in active mode, so to speak, and not passively. but its not too hard to imagine having them place one camera on a busy street, scanning passing plates, and whenever it detects something 'hot' a nearby cruiser gets notified. catch a couple of bad guys like that, and it will be the next big thing.

the fact that the core technology to scan, record, and process plates on the fly in real time is already here, is proof enough to be weary of it. even a moderate programmer could incorporate GPS into it. or this could be the next big must have addon for home surveillance. imagine if the surviellance camera you might already be running in front of your home or business, can be outfitted with this techology now or soon. most people would jump at it. point is, if its here, its here to stay, and technology like this opens the door for many more spin offs

this coupled with so many other forms of electronic suveilance is just steadily heading toward a society where everything about you is recorded somewhere.

I have nothing to hide.. so I don't care if they know where my route is..

Obviously with anything.. it can be abused by the right or wrong corrupt fool... Cops are also human.. so IF they had this full blown where they know everyone's route.. they could for their own benefit find out where someone that has ticked them off be.. or even worse.. for a fee.. let someone know where someone is/has been for some personal gain.. :smilie_d0

A few years ago The Cops would show up at WB/16 and start taking pictures of cars and plates while we were Chilling.

Rumor is The Plate #'s and descriptions went into a data base Called The Street Racer Regristy. I had a female officer watching my car so hard She Rearended another vehicle.

I hear that! We are gonna see some crazy stuff over our lifetime... hopefully its for the good and not the bad (or that Im atleast on the better side :P )!!

Good post, the things that are developed out there are pretty funky. Im sure thatll make enforcing the rules of the road a TON easier.

which car was this?

Thats alot of tax dollars, but i am sure its efficiency blows everything else out of the water.