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/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]