Grand Theft Auto meets Robocop
10:50 - Monday 20 June 2005 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: grand, theft, auto, meets, robocop Category : Miscellaneous
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: grand, theft, auto, meets, robocop Category : Miscellaneous
An automatic license-plate reader that can scan 500 license plates an hour looking for stolen vehicles underwent its first field tests by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department last week.
Using character-recognition technology developed for the Italian Post Office to read postal addresses, four robot eyes in the course of one night queried more than 12,000 license plates, recovered seven stolen cars and resulted in three arrests.
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