They are already using LPRs at the US/ Mexican border to read the
plates of cars coming and going and they compare them to a database of
"bad" plates.
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Subject: Parking enforcement on a roll
Food for thought.
Matt Murray
mattm@optonline.net
Parking enforcement on a roll
By Mac Daniel, Globe Staff, 3/13/2002
The potential future of parking enforcement in Boston rolled
slowly
down Columbus Avenue last week, trolling for license plates in
the
South End's urban sea.
It's a white mini-SUV that's hard to miss, with two bright sodium
lights on the roof sitting alongside two tubelike digital
cameras,
all pointed at car-bumper-level to catch any part of a number or
letter.
It is called a vehicle-mounted LPR or license plate reader, and
transportation specialists say it could become the most
innovative
parking enforcement advancement since the seal-and-send Day-Glo
parking ticket.
...
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/072/metro/Parking_enforcement_o
n_a_roll+.shtml
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