ANPR technology

Ed Chilada ( snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Webcam, laptop, video capture software, can't imagine there's anything too clever about it.

But... why?

If it's that important to get somebody's plate, just remember it and write it down when you get a mo.

Keep a digital voice memo recorder in your car.

Ross

I saw a TV programme about a Skoda enthusiast who had a big book in which he noted all the registrations he'd spotted on Skodas. Was it you?

Capturing the images is the easy bit, all off-the-shelf parts will do that. It's automatically interpreting the images that's the tricky bit!

Well I was kinda thinking if something happened to you, you'd have the registrations of the people around you at the time. Witnesses perhaps. Obviously you couldn't keep writing all those down.

Having given it some more thought (only a little, heh), maybe it'd be useful if it did real-time DVLA lookups so you could find out if that BMW behind you really is an M3 or a tarted up 318...

Join the Police?

Bribe a copper. most seem to be up for some "second income" these days, the ammount of=20 easy overtime they want at footie matches and in the Twatso vans.

--=20 Carl Robson Audio stream:

Coppers don't go out in the Revenue Vans do they, I thought they were all manned by interfering civilian meddlers...

Most petrol stations use this mob:

Some Java source code halfway down the page here: