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Re: FasTrak information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Tue Jul 13 19:14:56 2004
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
To: David Alexander Molnar <dmolnar@EECS.berkeley.EDU>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.44.0407130001550.11712-100000@argus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:33:29 -0600
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 02:08, David Alexander Molnar wrote:
> >From what I understand, the London congestion charging scheme relies
> entirely on automatic plate recognition. See also this web page on police
> uses of ANPR in the UK:
> http://www.pito.org.uk/what_we_do/identification/anpr.htm
>
> Also interesting is this list of cities with congestion pricing, which has
> some information on the technologies they use for vehicle identification:
> http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/cc_fact_sheet_other_schemes.shtml
i was in toronto 18 months ago for business meeting ... and their toll
road is license plate based. at night a couple people offered to drive
to dinner reservations and unfortunately i was in a car that got stopped
for 20 minutes by the police because the rear license plate wasn't
readable. it had a "clear" plastic cover that had gotten coated & pitted
w/grime. simply wiping it off didn't work .... and nobody had a
screwdriver to undo the plate so the cover could be removed. finally a
call went out to any police car with a screwdriver. finally one showed
up.
there was apparently a scam with pickup trucks stopping and lowering the
tailgate just before passing a camera .... which was sufficient to foil
the camera but not enuf to alert the police.
--
Anne & Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
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