[weberer]

I know Philadelphia has a network of publicly accessible traffic cameras that were installed by the city. I assume other places have them too.

[arethuza]

I thought those kind of networks were pretty common - here is Scotland's:

https://trafficscotland.org/map/index.aspx?type=26

[dagw]

Those cameras are placed in such a way and have a low enough resolution that it is impossible to read the license plates from the public data.

[arethuza]

Fair point, you can almost read number plates on some of the cameras that are close to roads. Presumably the cameras are capturing data at a higher resolution than those public images?

[londons_explore]

I'd bet with a bit of data processing on that video feed (subpixel aligning and stacking all the frames, using the prior knowledge that you know the numberplate isn't changing as the car drives down the road), you'd be able to read them.

[arethuza]

Yeah - I was squinting at some of them thinking that the appropriate tech could probably read them.

[xnyanta]

Quebec has the same: https://quebec511.info