Automatic License Plate Recognition

[oilyriser]

Theres also automatic face recognition. Gait recognition might also be possible. But people have to have healthy doubts about this technology, since it's never 100% accurate. Maybe it'll save time.

The response to 911 was way more costly in time, money, and lives than the original attack, and in 25 years a whole new generation of enemies will grow up who have no memory of it. Hopefully some computers and video cameras will be able to prevent future events like this.

 

[eljefino]

Regarding visiting someone's registered address to grab plates... most of these people are either:

20-something and officially living with mom, unofficially living with girlfriend/boyfriend...

apartment dwellers who've moved on to new apartments...

"shills" who've plated cars for their boyfriend/girlfriend (who lives elsewhere), because that person has several OUIs and is too expensive to ensure on their own selves.

Easier to catch these people on the roads and take their plates. My state just joined the information age and cancells registrations when insurance lapses-- preventing people from getting new cards (easily forged BTW as all you need is a fax/photocopy/temporary one) at registration time.

 

[oilyriser]

My insurance company cancelled my policy a few years ago due to a clerical error, but they didn't tell me about it until the next time I tried to renew.

 

[Shannow]

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There's no evidence that all of this airline security, etc., has made us any safer. .

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Hmmmm 4 airlines hijacked in one day-thousands killed. Next 5 years none hijacked noone killed. Whatever.

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Same thing with Oz's Port Arthur (worst massacre ever). Govt claims that their new laws are working, using "never had another Port Arthur" as proof of the new laws.

The couple hundred years leading up to it we hadn't had one either.

Doesn't mean the laws are working, just we dodn't have one before, nor have we had one after.

 

[MarkC]

Shannow, you have entirely too much common sense, and are therefore a dangerous person.

 

[toocrazy2yoo]

I like it. Sorry if folks are too poor to face the choice of eat or insurance, but THAT doesn't give them the right to drive w/o insurance. These cars will kill/main/disable without much of a wreck. That being the case, why should ANYONE, poor or rich, be enabled to take a car on the road without insurance/license?

Folks mention Va. as an enforcer, but fact of the matter is, you can check the box at DMV that you have insurance, and no proof required. Will they catch you later? Perhaps, if you get the survey form from DMV asking your policy info, but other than that, no verification needed. Traffic stop? Up north of here, officers ask for proof of insurance along with license and registration, but not here. I'm convinced they're enabling the poor and the illegals to drive uninsured with those two issues, not requiring proof of insurance when they draw tags and title, and at traffic stops.

This tag-camera system would be fine with me, especially if you can get the officer to enforce every "hit" he gets.

 

[Kestas]

Good point. To add, some people still believe that it is their right to drive on roads. They forget that driving is a priviledge. It's been that way ever since cars were invented and we set up a system of roadways with rules of the road. That's because of the great responsibility that goes with driving an automobile at high speeds and close proximity to other vehicles and property. The liability of an automobile is considerably higher than it was in the days of the horse and buggy.

 

[toocrazy2yoo]

True.. These days, a "minor" accident can total a $30,000 car (can you imagine if you whacked a guy like Doc Haas and his Enzo??? What would THAT cost?), and put someone in the hospital for say, a couple of nights' intensive care, four or five days recovering, and months in rehab, and a diminished life afterward.

Sorry, but NO ONE has the right to risk imposing all THAT on the public (and we all do, every day, every time we hit the road) without insurance, and lots of it. Yeah, we all have uninsured motorist insurance, but why should THAT have to be? In the uninsured motorist scenario, we are all, in actual fact, "covering" the uninsured motorist.

 

[Crashbox]

I think it's a really good thing. Just my opinion.

 

[RacerE7773]

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Canada. THEY HAVE FEW RIGHTS LEFT TO SURRENDER TO THEIR GOVERNMENT.

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We don't have many rights here in Ohio, either. The BMV only gives us one choice when it comes to our tags; renew for one or two years. Now they are wanting the color put on the registration.