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Re:STTR: A system for tracking all vehicles all the time at ... by d--b on Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:31AM (#17875531)
It's so sad to see that PhD students spend energy thinking about how to develop such policing systems. I don't understand it. Aren't these guys given any ethics class ? They should use their systems in their labs, tracking where everyone goes all the time, and store that data on one computer system available to the dean of the university (and his friends, the IT guys, and whoever knows about hacking)...
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Re:STTR: A system for tracking all vehicles all the time at ... by jsty on Thursday August 30, 2018 @07:14AM (#17875715)
Law enforcement might not be the only use for this (although it's the one that springs most readily to mind). E.g. in London there's the congestion charge, which would probably be much more effective in reducing congestion + emissions (or at least loading more costs onto those causing the issue) by charging per mile instead of a flat per day fee.

A system like this would make that possible without requiring a tracker to be fitted to every car, although a growing number of people have these anyway for a reduced insurance premium.

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Re:STTR: A system for tracking all vehicles all the time at ... by rurban on Friday August 31, 2018 @03:25AM (#17883602)
Such a system is already applied worldwide (by some people I know personally) for toll collection (and who knows what else). But it's much simplier. The optical carplate matcher is in every camera and no video is being sent for verification. With the timestamp and carplate you implement speed tracking. Without the video you ensure it's not used by normal police for speeding tickets.
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Re:STTR: A system for tracking all vehicles all the time at ... by jstarfish on Thursday August 30, 2018 @08:34PM (#17882039)
> It's so sad to see that PhD students spend energy thinking about how to develop such policing systems. I don't understand it. Aren't these guys given any ethics class ?

Ethics classes are usually elective. Most students elect to study more interesting topics.

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Re:STTR: A system for tracking all vehicles all the time at ... by chatmasta on Thursday August 30, 2018 @10:40AM (#17877105)
You might consider that not everybody shares the same ethical frameworks as you. What you consider morally wrong, others might not.

Similarly there are often multiple use cases for technology, some more ethically ambiguous than others.

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