How I replicated an $86 million project in 57 lines of code

[grnidone]

Don't ask me why, but one afternoon I had the desire to prototype a vehicle-mounted license plate scanner that would automatically notify you if a vehicle had been stolen or was unregistered. Understanding that these individual components existed, I wondered how difficult it would be to wire them together.

But it was after a bit of googling that I discovered Victoria Police had recently undergone a trial of a similar device, and the estimated cost of roll out was somewhere in the vicinity of $86,000,000. One astute commenter pointed out that the $86M cost to fit out 220 vehicles comes in at a rather thirsty $390,909 per vehicle.

Surely we can do a bit better than that.


https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-i-replicated-an-86-million-project-in-57-lines-of-code-277031330ee9

[littleman]

http://www.openalpr.com/

It is interesting that we live in an age where anybody can tap into this data.

[ergophobe]

Good God! Now Little Brother is watching us too.

[rcjordan]

No problem. Just pull the battery out of your phone and ride a bike while wearing big, dark sunglasses.