[Scan-DC] VSP video cameras on car

[Sean Hoyden]

Forgot to add, I'm told from a friend with the VSP, that the system has
considerable difficulty reading license plates with reflective or tinted
covers over them.  If that's true, imagine it won't be long before they
start outlawing those plastic covers people use out of some misguided sense
of protection from photo-enforcement cameras, and by consequence license
plate frames.

On a related subject, I wonder if mounting a couple of high output or
infrared LED's on either side of your license plate facing directly to the
rear would screw up the reader sensitivity?



On 3/24/09, Sean Hoyden <sean.hoyden at gmail.com> wrote:
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> They've been using this system in Northern New York (St. Lawrence County
> Sheriff) where I'm originally from for a few months now, so it's
> proliferated even down to smalltown USA as well.  I'm guessing that it's
> been funded largely by homeland security grants that went into effect in
> FY09 for much of the country.
>
> Sean
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>  On 3/24/09, michael rumberg <m_c_rumberg at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> here are two links with interesting information on ALPR systems in use and
>> how James City PD, VA, extols its virtues.
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>> http://www.jccegov.com/pdf/bospdfs/bospdfs2009/031009bos/e2_mem.pdf
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>> http://hackedgadgets.com/2006/12/24/automated-license-plate-recognition-alpr/
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