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This happens today with various state-hired contract firms that do ANPR reading of plates to automatically bill people for toll roads. They give zero shits abo
by tyingq 3y ago
This happens today with various state-hired contract firms that do ANPR reading of plates to automatically bill people for toll roads. They give zero shits about how accurate their readers are. So, someone with a plate of "3EE 432" gets a bill for a car with an actual plate of "8EE 432". And it's now on that person to solve the problem...which often involves a long wait on the phone, or complex website userid registration, etc.
I'm amazed there's not at least a system where you can quickly say "have a human verify this, this isn't me" via a text or button click.
- internetter 3y agoEvery incorrect reading should result in you recieving the cost of the ticket. If that was so, I would be 500$ richer. Would provide a nice incentive for contractors and governments to fix their shitty systems.
- mabbo 3y agoOntario built highway 407 in the early 2000s (late 90s?) with tolls that use license plate readers - no slowing down or stopping at all. Still a bit controversial, that, and especially controversial when the Conservative government sold it off to a private entity just to balance the budget for one year. But in all that time, I literally do not know anyone who has gotten a bill from them for a bad plate read. We have blizzards here, torrential downpour rain, all kinds of weather that might make it hard. Still, nothing. I wonder if the regulations on bad reads were simply made serious enough that the company handling it takes a very conservative approach to potential mistakes.
- tyingq 3y agoI imagine some companies do it right. I know some don't. Maybe Canada has better laws around it than the US? Or more context...like you could probably do some amount of matching registered make/model to a plate/picture with sufficiently good software and trigger human intervention when matches are low confidence.