I was knocked off my bike – by a driver, deliberately – in a hit and run yesterday. So I’ve been reflecting a lot on the apparent futility of reporting this sort of violence to the police.
I still will, but I have so little faith, and it diminishes each time.
I’m phenomenally grateful to ~ a dozen passers-by who checked I was okay. Two gave me their contact details as witnesses, so I have pictures of the car & plate from one and the business card of a partner in a law firm from the other. ❤️
@ashok hmm. You'd have to stream video live to a server with enough computational power to do licence plate recognition, then have the server message back to you if it finds a bad licence plate. Where would you get the list of bad licence plates though?
I do hope you keep safe on your bike.
@AndrejPanjkov That’s the kernel of “feasible” for me. I think it has to be local to be reliable.
At some point, I expect my helmet camera could be sending the video or sub-sampled frames to a computer/phone in my pocket/bag.
Or maybe it’s embedded directly in the camera, as the tech improves.
The “bad plate” list could be local, remote, or cached locally. I imagine it’d be something with a scoring function and a web of trust, but there a lot of basics to sort out before that.
Ashok Argent–Katwala
Andrej Panjkov