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Nice! Combine this with license plate recognition, and you have the start of an open platform for traffic safety that is both awesome and deeply creepy. I've t

Nice! Combine this with license plate recognition, and you have the start of an open platform for traffic safety that is both awesome and deeply creepy. I've thought about a platform that collects speeds of vehicles and then publishes a database of speeds matched to license plates as an open data set. Police would likely not touch it, but a large enough database might be a tantalizing prize for automobile insurance companies. And then my desire for more disincentives for speeding runs afoul of my feelings about dragnet surveillance, and so I abandon it. In terms of having the potential to effect direct action against speeders, I don't know how effective simply monitoring speeds would be. That said, some cities (such as Seattle) will lend speed profiling equipment to community groups in order to establish whether or not a given segment of road might be a candidate for traffic calming: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/ntcp_calming.htm http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/ntcp_calming.htm

Perixoog 10y ago
You could just use licence plate recognition x2 and measure average speeds instead.
pjc50 10y ago
The UK has an insurance lookup database, although you're only supposed to use it on your own car: http://ownvehicle.askmid.com/ http://ownvehicle.askmid.com/ I've been wondering if it would be possible to combine that with ANPR to give a dashboard-level indicator of uninsured vehicles to watch out for.
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- ddmf 10y ago
  That's an excellent idea. Far too often the driver in front appears to be driving strangely so you drop back a bit and hope they or you turn off so you don't have to be hypervigilant about their driving. If there was an automated way of dobbing a driver in to the police then this would be useful too - quick tweet/email/text with the message: uninsured vehicle AB12 CDE travelling at 35mph location 51°29'51.3"N 0°08'06.4"W
kmm 10y ago
That sounds insanely illegal as well. I don't know about the US, but I think in most places in the EU it's illegal to even post videos of people driving dangerously or way too fast online.
- toomuchtodo 10y ago
  No expectation of privacy in public in the US. Its fair game. https://www.reddit.com/r/Roadcam https://www.reddit.com/r/Roadcam

Perixoog 10y ago

You could just use licence plate recognition x2 and measure average speeds instead.

pjc50 10y ago

The UK has an insurance lookup database, although you're only supposed to use it on your own car: http://ownvehicle.askmid.com/ http://ownvehicle.askmid.com/ I've been wondering if it would be possible to combine that with ANPR to give a dashboard-level indicator of uninsured vehicles to watch out for.

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ddmf 10y ago
That's an excellent idea. Far too often the driver in front appears to be driving strangely so you drop back a bit and hope they or you turn off so you don't have to be hypervigilant about their driving. If there was an automated way of dobbing a driver in to the police then this would be useful too - quick tweet/email/text with the message: uninsured vehicle AB12 CDE travelling at 35mph location 51°29'51.3"N 0°08'06.4"W

kmm 10y ago

That sounds insanely illegal as well. I don't know about the US, but I think in most places in the EU it's illegal to even post videos of people driving dangerously or way too fast online.

toomuchtodo 10y ago
No expectation of privacy in public in the US. Its fair game. https://www.reddit.com/r/Roadcam https://www.reddit.com/r/Roadcam