Score One for Skynet

[Captroop]

That sucker has some pretty fly applications for military and law enforcement.

Assuming you aint the badguy.

I've always wondered if they could do something with the dash-mounted camera to scan all the license plates the cop drives by and automatically run it through a police database to see if the driver has a warrant. Not asking for 1984 type stuff, I mean there'e no way there is enough bandwidth to scan every plate for registration info, parking tickets etc. But get it to search for warrants for the big stuff: murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, and even carjacking, etc.

[Darth Biscuit]

I've always wondered if they could do something with the dash-mounted camera to scan all the license plates the cop drives by and automatically run it through a police database to see if the driver has a warrant. Not asking for 1984 type stuff, I mean there'e no way there is enough bandwidth to scan every plate for registration info, parking tickets etc. But get it to search for warrants for the big stuff: murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, and even carjacking, etc.

I'm sure that with this tech and the tech from something like Google goggles, you could program the camera to find plates and snap pictures of them and process the numbers fairly quickly.

[g5jamz]

Yep...and take that another step further where you track plates AND faces leaving areas on public roads and instantly notify probation officers/police if someone is leaving an area breaking probation, sex offender entering area they're not allowed, stalking/restraining order protections from ADT-esque, etc.

The applications are far reaching.

[mmmbeans]

I've always wondered if they could do something with the dash-mounted camera to scan all the license plates the cop drives by and automatically run it through a police database to see if the driver has a warrant. Not asking for 1984 type stuff, I mean there'e no way there is enough bandwidth to scan every plate for registration info, parking tickets etc. But get it to search for warrants for the big stuff: murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, and even carjacking, etc.

this is already being implemented. but only .05% of it will be used for the big stuff.

everyone knows this will be used as an increased revenue stream.

[Captroop]

this is already being implemented. but only .05% of it will be used for the big stuff.

everyone knows this will be used as an increased revenue stream.

Pay your child support and it won't be a problem.

Seriously, I doubt it would be implemented soley for increased revenue. An infrastructure change on such a grand level would have such a large front end investment, it would take probably more than a decade just to break even.

[mmmbeans]

Pay your child support and it won't be a problem.

Seriously, I doubt it would be implemented soley for increased revenue. An infrastructure change on such a grand level would have such a large front end investment, it would take probably more than a decade just to break even.

it isn't an infrastructure upgrade, it's a software upgrade. this guy didn't make the camera, he's using a standard webcam, he just made the code.

what infrastructure?

[Epistaxis]

Yeah, what infrastructure?

You stick just another camera (around here you wouldn't even need new cameras, they are everywhere) at the tollbooth, the underpass, the streetsign, whatever.

And yeah, this has the feelgood "public safety" amber alert angle, but don't think for a minute it isn't a revenue generator too.

On the military tip...predator sounds pretty appropos, when applied to certain targeting technology.

[Captroop]

it isn't an infrastructure upgrade, it's a software upgrade. this guy didn't make the camera, he's using a standard webcam, he just made the code.

what infrastructure?

Getting a program linked to every dash-board camera (which would need to be upgraded from analog to digital in every car plus a wireless connection to transmit data in real time) to feed to a database (which has to be constantly maintained). Each police department would need the new hardware, software licenses, software maintenance plans, probably some servers, which aren't cheap, they would need to hire one or more DBAs, and probably expand their network, add one or more T1 lines. Or outsource all of the above to a contractor. In any case, I doubt it's cheap.

[Guest]

"It was the machines, Sarah....

Defense network computers.

New, powerful,

hooked into everything, trusted to run it all.

They say it got smart - a new order of intelligence.

Then it saw all people as a threat. Not just the ones on the other side.

It decided our fate in a microsecond.

Extermination."

[Epistaxis]