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There are models that do license plate recognition, ie to find the specific box in an image that contains the license plate. Then there are also OCR models to read the characters from the plate itself. Both have been around for a long time and are not particularly revolutionary technology.

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The post office has used OCR machines (optical character recognition) since the 80s.

I think the 80s machines used something more like hand built digital image processing to find the characters, but OCR is absolutely not new.

That's more like machine vision rather than real AI. But you dont even need that when the video is being sent to a human anyways.

They'd be at least minorly incentivized to cut down on false positives because 1) they had a review step before sending to the police and 2) if they're cheaping out on that first review and sending loads of false positives to the cops for citations they're likely to lose their contracts.

Are LLMs “real AI”? What exactly is “real AI”?

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