Post #4440941
2026-07-31 17:48 UTC
How can they suck that bad? A 29€ raspberry pi with a basic ML model can get 90% accurate results
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@JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 2026-07-31 19:45
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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@swicano@programming.dev 2026-07-31 18:01
That’s probably exactly what they did, deployed a sbc + some off the shelf model and increased the price 300x by making a black plastic shell.