Hacker News Reader

Equivalent quality cameras can be had for 100-200. Not that expensive.

In a weather-proof, UV-resistant housing, with battery and solar panel for charging, designed to meet municipal and traffic safety specs, and with turn-key service, all at the usual markup for dealing with all that and because there are almost no competitive alternatives, it sounds pretty typical.

Even a simple stop sign is hundreds of dollars when you consider all the costs associated with its installation.

Look up guardrail guy's video on their installs. They are not up to code. Even the newer installs that do include breakaways are failing.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/uvc-ai-lpr

$500 for one of the best [that I know of] consumer LPR cameras. Non-consumer versions go for thousands.

And the cameras Flock are using are no where near that good of quality. The claim was high quality cameras are expensive. Flock is using pretty cheap components. There's been multiple tear-downs showing just how budget built they are.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com