From: Roger Williams <roger@coelacanth.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 11:00:55 +0800
To: Bill Stewart <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Drive the SF Central Freeway, have your license plate   photo'ed.
In-Reply-To: <199608091854.LAA25837@toad.com>
Message-ID: <roger7mr8m1mt.fsf@sturgeon.coelacanth.com>
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>>>>> Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> writes:
  > At 10:45 PM 8/8/96 -0700, Lucky wrote:
  >> You *are* making this up, right? Please say you did.

  > It's possible today, and probably affordable.

It's been reasonably affordable for several years.  

Video number plate reading is routinely used around here for gathering
statistics on the points of origin of commuter traffic, for highway
planning purposes.  (The numbers are looked up in the Registry
database to find where each commuter is likely to have come from.)

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