Post #4440939
2026-07-31 19:45 UTC
I guess that they are implementing crappy cameras? Not sure about american plates, but in most jurisdictions licence plates are optimized for easy OCR:
Note how each letter is unique and can’t be transformed with a sharpie into another. That also makes OCR easy. If you use a crappy dashcam, you will get problems regardless. Esp. in low light situations at higher speeds.
So I would guess that Flock uses cheap sensors and cheap lenses. Which kind of makes sense when they are putting out thousands of scanners.
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@EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 2026-08-01 02:05
The C could be definitely be turned into the G pretty flawlessly.
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@XLE@piefed.social 2026-07-31 22:02
In some cases in the US, cops enter both O and 0 into the search databases. This probably compounds the number of false positives.