While your examples are accurate for hand-held or casual ANPR, they're easy to mitigate against when you're planning a fixed installation. Just look at existin

While your examples are accurate for hand-held or casual ANPR, they're easy to mitigate against when you're planning a fixed installation. Just look at existing ANPR installations. You get tight lanes. Barriers to arrest cars. High and low angle cameras working together. Heavy use of IR illumination (reads through all but the thickest mud IME). That's not to say some people don't get it wrong. I've worked on systems where they've cheaped-out and put a single camera at bumper-level. It's completely ineffective 2-4pm in winter because of the glare. But yeah, if you can avoid being a cheap idiot, you can easily take a system to 90+% confidence.