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Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police in one California town (www.businessinsider.com)
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In 2023 and 2024, Flock sent 1,427 alerts to the Roseville [CA] Police Department.

Roseville police found that Flock misread license plates in 71% of those alerts.

Max Isaacs, director of technology law and policy with the Policing Project at New York University's School of Law, described Roseville's misread data as "stunning."

"A 71% misread rate is really beyond the pale," he told Business Insider, referring to Roseville's reported error rate for stolen and felony vehicle alerts. He added that "in the absence of concrete rules that directly address the problem of misreads, this technology is not safe to be deployed in communities."

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[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The cameras around the US scan 7000 plates per second

Yes the entire system saving that text, and maybe a still image handles that many... But the single camera taking each photo where the actual OCR processing is done ON THE CAMERA HARDWARE ITSELF only needs to handle maybe one or two each second... And only if it is looking at a busy road. At the distances these cameras can process, most are not handling a lot simultaneously. And very busy roads will have different hardware than the lower end camera systems used in most places.

You HAVE to purposely be trying NOT to understand any of the responses to you here. No one could possibly be that stupid unintentionally.

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