[tluyben2]

I remember the police claiming they had this tech (license plate recognition) for average speed tracking while it did not work. It also didn’t work but was claimed to work for some toll roads. It helped as people slowed down and paid toll but it didn’t work; it started working years after installing it.

[tluyben2]

I am not supposed to ask on HN but why the downvotes? It’s just an observation from the past (Over 20 years ago)?

[anigbrowl]

It's self-contradictory and hard to understand.

[tluyben2]

How self contradictory? Most people believed it worked and slowed down, but driving too fast never got you fined because it didn’t actually recognise your number plate. Unlike normal speed cams which were manual at the time.

[anigbrowl]

> it didn’t work; it started working years after installing it.

Nothing personal, it is just not very well phrased and I think you confused a lot of people with the first version.

[tluyben2]

Fair enough!