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Silver_2000
06-19-2005, 02:33 PM
http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,67864,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5



An automatic license-plate reader that can scan 500 license plates an hour looking for stolen vehicles underwent its first field tests by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department last week.

Using character-recognition technology developed for the Italian Post Office to read postal addresses, four robot eyes in the course of one night queried more than 12,000 license plates, recovered seven stolen cars and resulted in three arrests.

Lyfisin
06-19-2005, 05:47 PM
/sigh

It works from the front. That's good to help recover stolen cars, but bad for getting rid of the front license plate idea.

/hatethieves