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Put up billboards around metros with a license plate reader that queries this database with each passing car and announce "White Tesla Model Y XYZ-1234 You've been focked for: Inv"

What a sick society we live in.

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This unfortunately wouldn't work quite as well in states where cars arent required to have a front facing license plate (like florida)

The camera could be separate from the billboard, and point at the backs of the cars. The billboard would be a short distance past that.

Flock cameras are oriented to read rear plates. One would need a camera similarly configured + a billboard some distance in front, or perhaps 2 billboards, a 1-2 setup + payoff combo, the camera behind the first billboard, and the dynamic text on the second. Pulling up other public data correlated to the plate - where legal - may make a splash. I'm thinking addressing the car owner by their first name.

Right, but also remember that they're set up to analyze other vehicle traits, including but not limited to: color, make, model, body damage, panels that are a different color to the rest of the body, wheels, decals, bumper stickers, tow hitches, roof racks, etc., so even if they can't read your plate they can try to build a vehicle identity, and when they do get a plate capture, they can retroactively apply that to all other sightings of the vehicle.

It really is fucking dystopian.

That'd be a great place to test one's plate for legibility to the toll and speed cameras.

How about we hold our leaders accountable?

Dystopian society.

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