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Big Brother is figuring out some cool ways to track you down.

[video=google;-2372616163488472277]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2372616163488472277[/video]
 
Yeah, I can see that helping to catch a lot of criminals. I started to say something to the effect of "all of that is easily thwarted by simply stealing a license plate", but then I realized that the stolen plates would probably be reported stolen in a short amount of time and added to the hotlist.

This is a perfect example of the ability of computers to do repetitive tasks at high speed being put to use.
 
neato- VPL has been around for awhile in the security industry- but very expensive camera with the software.

SMILE!!!!!!!!!:)
 
What we see car thieves do here is steal temp tags off of new cars and then steal another car and put the temp tags on the stolen car.
 
since we have a set of plate now that are NOT embosed there has been a rash of thievs priniting up fakes on lazer printers and simply tapeing them to thin sheets of steel...even to a trained eye there undetectable..its only at night when you can spot them
 
"we can detect cars of interest to the police"

"sir, step out of your car please, you are a known dissenter. GET DOWN ON THE GROUND!"
 
LOL... no eyes at all!

I love the way the guy is so proud of his new technology without even a second thought as to the technology's potential for abuse. How long do you figure it's going to take to have that same gadget looking for potential consumers and marketers knowing your every move. then you start getting e-mail, junk mail, and phone calls from businesses in the area you drive by a lot.
 
hell, friday night just have it flag the folks with past dui's. It would be like shooting fish in a barrell.

set it to max racial profilin' in the burbs.

Canada has it and is talking about it, how long has it been in use down here?
 
Very cool, but the two that he mentioned that raise my concerns slightly are the uninsured plate, and no driver's license plate.
In the first instance any third party driver (one whose residence is not that of the registered vehicle - that person's insurance will cover the vehicle as long as the insured third party driver is driving it. In the second case anyone but the registered owner, who carries a valid license is free to drive as long as the car is insured and registered and where applicable, inpsected.

Yes the pros outweigh the cons for sure - I am not disputing that. But the sheer time involved to be constantly updating the files will be huge. And when the files are no constantly updated, the mounds of paperwork and legal hassles and court time will be huge. Again, I am for it and the only reason I am even saying these is that it is my hard luck ass that would be tagged constantly to appear in court when it was an update delay that allowed me to get snagged.
Get license back at 10 am. Car gets spotted in parking lot at 10:20. Car gets towed/ticketed. Entered into system. Now anyone who has ever had any foul up in the police/legal (no justice, but legal) systems knows they are in for a world of hurts unless you are the guilty party.

I do think it is a great idea and will help the cops out a lot. But for us bad luck attracters - our pain threshold has just quantum leaped.
"Oh sorry asswipe, yes your expired license was reistated 5 years ago - just never got updated. Sorry but your car was impounded and sold... yes all within 5 minutes."

Big Brother is good in a lot of circumstances, but George Orwell was not an idiot.
 
6pkrunner said:
In the first instance any third party driver (one whose residence is not that of the registered vehicle - that person's insurance will cover the vehicle as long as the insured third party driver is driving it.
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That's not the case in Ontario. You can get a driver's license without insurance. Insurance is associated with the car. So, the car needs to be insured and proof needs to be stored in the car at all times so that any driver can produce it upon request.


6pkrunner said:
In the second case anyone but the registered owner, who carries a valid license is free to drive as long as the car is insured and registered and where applicable, inpsected.


Get license back at 10 am. Car gets spotted in parking lot at 10:20. Car gets towed/ticketed. Entered into system. Now anyone who has ever had any foul up in the police/legal (no justice, but legal) systems knows they are in for a world of hurts unless you are the guilty party.

I do think it is a great idea and will help the cops out a lot. But for us bad luck attracters - our pain threshold has just quantum leaped.
"Oh sorry asswipe, yes your expired license was reistated 5 years ago - just never got updated. Sorry but your car was impounded and sold... yes all within 5 minutes."
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They'd have to check with the driver before impounding the car.


But I see your point. There's some room for abuse.
 
A lot of it was meant as tongue in cheek. I guess the examples I cite are how it stands in the outlands of fish kingdom.
And we have enough examples here of any car that is red listed gets towed away regardless of who is present at the time. That is where my next part about the lists and bungles of government come into play.
Have you ever heard the "Well take it to XXXXXX department and they can straighten it out right there?"
Fines paid at the cop shop on a Friday at noon and the paper pusher doesn't get the news out to the guys on the street before Monday. Car gets snagged Friday night. Trying to use reciept of fine paid as proof that all is well to impound person. No go as the big book still says car is red listed. Monday afternoon before mess cleaned up - and yard still wants $58.50 for impound fees. AMHIK.
Some of these mistakes take years to rectify - if at all. Now we are to trust a third party contract to be punctual and factual and error free with a file numbering in the millions?
Again it is not my intent to sound all doom and gloom, but just be prepared if you get kicked in the head for no reason.
 
6pkrunner said:
A lot of it was meant as tongue in cheek. I guess the examples I cite are how it stands in the outlands of fish kingdom.
And we have enough examples here of any car that is red listed gets towed away regardless of who is present at the time. That is where my next part about the lists and bungles of government come into play.
Have you ever heard the "Well take it to XXXXXX department and they can straighten it out right there?"
Fines paid at the cop shop on a Friday at noon and the paper pusher doesn't get the news out to the guys on the street before Monday. Car gets snagged Friday night. Trying to use reciept of fine paid as proof that all is well to impound person. No go as the big book still says car is red listed. Monday afternoon before mess cleaned up - and yard still wants $58.50 for impound fees. AMHIK.
Some of these mistakes take years to rectify - if at all. Now we are to trust a third party contract to be punctual and factual and error free with a file numbering in the millions?
Again it is not my intent to sound all doom and gloom, but just be prepared if you get kicked in the head for no reason.
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Yep. What he said. 3rd parties are interested in only one thing, making as much money as possible becuase they have to give the politician that approved the program 30% as it is. So if they have to "make a few mistakes" to get the profit they need, get ready to get raked over the coals and maybe miss that job interview because you were mistakenly stopped.
 
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