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Due to some recent health issues, my Dad's driver license was temporarily revoked. He can't drive again until his doctor decides it's safe. So now my step mother is doing all the driving and anytime they go somewhere, they get pulled over by the police. This is a consequence of police cameras and software I had never thought of before and I have mixed feelings about it.

I don't think there are any easy answers.

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Can you elaborate? Are you saying the police in your area have facial recognition and pull over any car where the driver isn't who the car is registered to? I'm confused.

I think it's just an ALPR system. The car is registered in my Dad's name and since his license is suspended, the machine in the cruiser tells the officer to stop the car.

He probably means police knows registered owner of that car shouldn't drive and stop it to check who is driving.

Public transportation is a good answer, for this specific example, although little you personally can do about that today.

My dad lives in a small rural town (population 1500).

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