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Re: automatic toll collection, was Japan Puts Its Money on E-Cash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Fri Dec 16 10:37:08 2005
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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:56:09 +0100
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>,
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:31:36AM -0000, John Levine wrote:
> An article in Wikipedia says that congestion tolls in London (UK) are
> also collected automatically by taking pictures of license plates.
The German TollCollect system (used on the national highway system)
reads license plates of every vehicle (currently, only trucks
are charged) by OCR. The police is purportely very interested to obtain
realtime access to the logs.=20
Don't we all feel much safer, already?
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Eugen* Leitl <a href=3D"http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org
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