[phrotoma]

I anticipate some kind of open source / crowd sourced ALPR app will become the public's answer to these private data collection systems. Everyone has a dash cam and a cell phone in their car. It wouldn't take much to run local video analysis onboard, capture all the cars around you on the road, compute make, model, distance, velocity, heading, and archive it in a local DB. Then have a "that guy cut me off" button that pushes the record to a collaborative open data set like open street maps.

I hate this idea. It's a shit idea. I expect it's coming anyway.