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On Tuesday, one of the largest LPR manufacturers, ELSAG, announced a major upgrade to "allow investigators to search by color, seven body types, 34 makes, and nine visual descriptors in addition to the standard plate number, location, and time."
Such a vast expansion of the tech now means that evading such scans will be even more difficult.
For years, Ars has been reporting on automated license plate readers (ALPRs, or simply LPRs)—a specialized camera often mounted on police cars that can scan at speeds of up to 60 plates per second.
Those scans are compared against what law enforcement usually dubs a "hot list" before alerting the officer to the presence of a potentially wanted or stolen vehicle. All scans are typically kept in a police database for weeks, months, or years on end.
These devices are now in common use by cities big and small across the United States, as well as many countries around the globe, including the United Kingdom. Police at the upcoming royal wedding in London will use LPRs to monitor unauthorized vehicles.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @07:08AM (7 children)
Wednesday's story on Slashdot. [slashdot.org] Is the Soylent weekend a dumping ground for things the green site has already run?
(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Sunday May 20 2018, @07:38AM (1 child)
I'll make sure to comment over there whenever we beat them to a story, which we have done plenty of times. Oh wait, that would be just as fucking obnoxious.
TL;DR: Nobody cares.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday May 20 2018, @10:18AM
There's ANOTHER Royal wedding coming up???
Ah, yes. Here it is: Edmund Blackadder and the Infanta.........
XD
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @10:16AM (4 children)
I have not been to that "green site" since SoylentNews emerged. Fuck beta.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday May 20 2018, @10:35AM (3 children)
Agreed... I care very little if the other site leads or lags us. Some overlap is surely expected.
If I want the *latest* news, I'll go to Google. But if I want to discuss it, I'll come here.
If its something I am really interested in and its NOT here, I'll submit it as a story. Maybe this group would like it as well.
Nothing says it has to be the latest gossip, albeit, in the technical area we are in, if its not new, its probably "mature" and everyone and his brother knows about it.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Sunday May 20 2018, @12:29PM (2 children)
Over 25 years ago, I read about a then new project to use computers and cameras to identify railroad cars by the scratches, dents, and graffiti they collect over time. Seems that was potentially more reliable and less costly than trying to put and maintain numbers on all the cars, which they try to do with paint.
Railroad companies sure don't go to the expense of putting metal ID plates on all their railroad cars. Raises the question of why we put them on automobiles, and what we could do differently there.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @03:41PM
I can tell you and a computer where train car #TC123456 is but can you tell me where the car with the dent on the left side and the scratch on the right side and the funny looking tag that sort of looks like an elephant on acid is? No, not that one. The one with a longer scratch and more blue in the tag.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @11:01PM
Going WAY back before that, according to a usually-reliable source, [google.com] railroads were among the earliest entities using barcodes.
I'm seeing "1970s" twice from 1 source on that page.
The thing you mentioned might be a useful addendum to that but it seems they already had a pretty reliable thing going for quite some time.
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