Re:Ask HN: Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated?
by noway421 on Sunday October 06, 2019 @05:22AM
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Big question is, how would you do it at scale? You can crowdsorce data, but then it's hardly precise or frequently updated data. Sort of a thing that vinwiki does now. Govt has a head start on it with speed cameras/traffic light cameras etc, but there only so many of them.
The wildest idea I can think of is using reverse camera on every car and recognizing the plate of the car which is tail gating you. Now, that's more interesting, but how much of a fleet you would need to track down a random car.
Not something car manufacturers would do either, even with their love of telemetry.
Re:Ask HN: Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated?
by Theophraustous on Monday October 07, 2019 @12:42PM
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I don't recall the exact article, but I believe they "crowd source" the data via repo-men & tow trucks with automatic scanners.
https://drndata.com/
It seems to me that having a huge database of known locations of vehicles could be used to do some cool (but likely immoral) things, specially coupled with the fact that several state agencies all over the world make it free and easy to retrieve licensing and ownership information for vehicles. It'd also be relatively much easier to do compared to facial recognition.