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byDrethon ( 1445051 ) writes:
Yeah, I'm going there... what if every road required you to display your drivers license in the windshield to be scanned every time you go anywhere?
byGeoffrey.landis ( 926948 ) writes:
Yeah, I'm going there... what if every road required you to display your drivers license in the windshield to be scanned every time you go anywhere?
Then we would rename "driver's license" with the term "license plate," since that's what a license plate is.
bytepples ( 727027 ) writes:
Current number plates do not display in a machine-readable manner who happens to be driving a vehicle at any given moment.
bywvmarle ( 1070040 ) writes:
That stopped being true at least a decade ago, when more and more speeding tickets were processed fully automatically (by computers reading the licence plates from photos taken by speed cameras).
Some motorways in The Netherlands measure the speed of vehicles over a long distance (so not at a point) and register every single car twice; when they enter and when they exit the area, to calculate the average speed and issue tickets based on that if needed. Fully automated, all machine reading of license plates.
Maybe your country is behind the times in that?
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bytepples ( 727027 ) writes:
The number plate identifies the vehicle and thereby its owner. It does not identify the human being driving it at any given moment.
bywvmarle ( 1070040 ) writes:
It will be the same person most of the times. I expect 80-90% of the time, maybe even more. Good enough for most tracking purposes.
byDrethon ( 1445051 ) writes:
Such as when my wife drives our car which is registered to me or when I drove my parents car?
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