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Don't license plates work just as well for tracking? And if it's the person and not the vehicle, phone tracking is more accurate.
by mc32 4y ago
Don't license plates work just as well for tracking? And if it's the person and not the vehicle, phone tracking is more accurate.
- landr0id 4y agoThere are definitely many better ways of doing this, it’s more of a thought experiment.
- function_seven 4y agoRF tracking would be better if you don't have access to a location with line-of-sight to the passing traffic. Also cheaper than OCR-ing camera footage, and can track vehicles going in both directions, trucks towing trailers, cars with no front plate, etc. Plate tracking is better for determining direction, and is probably more reliable because TPMS aren't constantly transmitting. You could miss a car if it doesn't have any TPMS info transmitting while it passes your station. Is phone tracking still possible for the latest iOS or Android phones? I thought my BLE and MAC addresses are randomized, but I don't know much about this beyond that headline. I'm guessing a Stingray type device would still work though.
- kube-system 4y ago> Plate tracking is better for determining direction, and is probably more reliable because TPMS aren't constantly transmitting. And also because direct-sensed TPMS is only one way of implementing TPMS. Other implementations use wheel-speed sensors which are hard wired, not RF.