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Traffic cameras hate this one weird trick (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's even more boring than that - the license plate system already searches ambiguous characters. It's almost like this issue comes up even without people gaming the system.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh like so I bet

    if license plate person thinks they have 1 on they plate {
  do check to see if it’s \
    actually == i
}
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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Something like that, yeah, I think the system automatically checks.. Although this has 8 ambiguous characters, so actually you could have 256 cars with virtually indistinguishable plates, which is a lot. I believe custom plates have an approval process, and I wonder if this would be part of it. Like, "Yeah, no more black lincoln town cars with all I's and 1's, something's up."

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