The challenge is to make sure that any red light camera with ALPR (probably all of them?) doesn't get used also for nefarious purposes (police surveillance, sharing with ICE). I'm actively looking for such solutions, as are a lot of municipalities, in the wake of shocking revelations about Flock ALPRs.
There are around 40,000 auth related deaths per year. We're talking a thousand due to red light running. Would we better served on focusing on the 39/40ths of deaths or this 1/40th?
The next hurdle after that is making sure cars have valid tags. So many in the Philly area have paper "temporary" registrations (there's quite the business with used car lots selling them under the table in Delaware), "dealer" plates on cars that are clearly daily drivers, etc. that are clearly doing so to evade cameras and automated readers on police and parking authority vehicles.
The license plate issue shows how widespread the behavior issue is. Common excuse is "I got stuck and had to go through red." Person wouldn't try to evade if that was true.
The challenge is to make sure that any red light camera with ALPR (probably all of them?) doesn't get used also for nefarious purposes (police surveillance, sharing with ICE). I'm actively looking for such solutions, as are a lot of municipalities, in the wake of shocking revelations about Flock ALPRs.
There are around 40,000 auth related deaths per year. We're talking a thousand due to red light running. Would we better served on focusing on the 39/40ths of deaths or this 1/40th?
The next hurdle after that is making sure cars have valid tags. So many in the Philly area have paper "temporary" registrations (there's quite the business with used car lots selling them under the table in Delaware), "dealer" plates on cars that are clearly daily drivers, etc. that are clearly doing so to evade cameras and automated readers on police and parking authority vehicles.
The license plate issue shows how widespread the behavior issue is. Common excuse is "I got stuck and had to go through red." Person wouldn't try to evade if that was true.