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I believe we need to move to e ink (or similar tech) based licence plates. The numbers would change every few minutes but still would be cryptographically tied
by gorbypark 3y ago
I believe we need to move to e ink (or similar tech) based licence plates. The numbers would change every few minutes but still would be cryptographically tied to an owner if you both have a time stamp and a proper decryption key. The idea would be that if you had the proper authorization (police, DMV, etc) and a time stamp you could see the owner of a vehicle, but it would hinder 3rd party private alpr dragnet systems. It wouldn’t change much for entities like police, but it could put in place a system of accountability (ie: decryption rules set at the state level instead of local level, etc)
- CharlieDigital 3y agoLike the idea, but the failure rate and cost would be too high. Also, police would end up having blanket authorization just like they do now.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoSomeone was just shot for accidentally getting into the wrong car. It's not unusual around here to have a row of identical cars in, e.g., a Walmart parking lot. How do you propose people recognize their own vehicles if the license plate numbers are constantly changing?
- kragen 3y agobumper stickers, custom paint jobs, or just not buying identical cars in the first place? this seems like an absurdly self-inflicted problem if you're banging your head on the wall and it hurts, you could stop?
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoWell, that's a nicely dismissive answer! So your suggestion is that people avoid purchasing cars that happen to be very popular in their general area and if they can't (or won't) avoid that, paint it differently or affix bumper stickers?
- kragen 3y agoyeah, if you're such a timid conformist that you literally can't tell your car apart from someone else's, i don't see why anyone should care what happens to you