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Eventually cameras from orbit will be able to read license plates in real time and detect all speeding vehicles.
by lacker 6y ago
Eventually cameras from orbit will be able to read license plates in real time and detect all speeding vehicles.
- koolba 6y agoThe angle of the plate wouldn’t allow it. What they can do is feed the movements of all vehicles into a big data platform and infer which car went where...
- Scoundreller 6y agoIf they went that route, they would just require a plate on the roof too.
- Ekaros 6y agoAverage speed control. For every trip... Sounds doable already. Ofc, privacy implications are really fun when they start selling journey data of each car... Now add facial recognition in mix on from CCTVs. And we are in whole new level of tracking everyone. Coming soon!
- colejohnson66 6y agoJust waiting for the Speed Enforced by Satellite highway signs... But in seriousness, the angle wouldn’t work.
- dvdbloc 6y agoUntil they just add terrible IoT transmitters to license plates
- Scoundreller 6y agoYou already have TPMS sensors in most cars... not sure how long it takes to read them.
- aitchnyu 6y agoUmm, those things need to transmit only a few inches.
- netsharc 6y agoObviously a new law would say you have to add a license plate to the roof of your car...
- skeeter2020 6y agoThey already have (and have had for decades) the equivalent of "speed enforced by aircraft patrol" where they spot from a plane and ticket by car; they could do the same thing with satellites...
- Scoundreller 6y agoI’ve been waiting for someone to build an RTL-SDR detector for those. They draw fun loops over the highway because highway speeds are a little too close to stall speed. Reality is it’s just an expensive enforcement stunt.
- BelenusMordred 6y agoEveryone travels with a personal tracking device, except for those who choose to opt out of modern society, what you present as a future threat can be easily done today with little effort by law enforcement. It's trivial to determine the speed a person travels down a highway from GSM timing advance data. In most countries on Earth this metadata is mandated to be held for a certain amount of time by service providers. Like all laws, it's selective, and there's only so many prosecutors, the moment they even try to charge the first person is when that government mandated tracking device in your pocket starts losing its value.
- PureParadigm 6y ago...unless it's cloudy.
- scotty79 6y agoIf you have UV camera you can see through the clouds, I think.