cbelt3's Journal: AutoVu is watching you !

Recent announcements in my town (Cue the flaming river jokes !) about this technology from AutoVu gave me pause. It seems that the Cleveland cops are planning on buying a van for around $80K, and running it around town all day. The van will read everyone's license plate, and alert the driver when it sees one on the 'parking scofflaw' listing. In a radio interview on our local NPR station, one administrator said "We miss collecting around $1.7 M in parking tickets each year. This van will pay for itself right away." In trials, they bagged one poor turkey with over $3,000 in unpaid fines. So pay that ticket, Cleveland, 'cause they're watching you ! And if you live away from the North Coast, they're watching you in Chicago, Boston, Vancouver, etc. ...