Car brains are fine with state licenses, state subsidies, destroying the planet, etc... But monitoring their driving is a step too far.
Cars are the root problem here. No car, no license, no problem.
Meet Flock's Alpha Drone – It Reads License Plates from 2,000 Feet
https://www.gadgetreview.com/meet-flocks-alpha-drone-it-reads-license-plates-from-2000-feet
15 Comments
JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz · 43 pts · 26d
Dude the flock thing does not ONLY read car plates. They are surveillance that makes Chinese surveillance look like child's play
hdsrob@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 26d
Yep, scanning Bluetooth and WiFi of passing devices means that they can track your movements on foot, bike, scooter, or public transport, just as reliably as in a car.
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 26d
Calling it a license plate reader is a lie to get them installed by municipal governments. They are high resolution AI survellience cameras that track people using any information they can gather. They also record network signals to associate you with any devices you frequently carry.
There are installations of these cameras on footpaths, and other places without car traffic. Flock cameras are not a car related issue.
Drusas@fedia.io · 12 pts · 26d
This is not appropriate for this community.
arcine@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 26d
New archery practice target just dropped 🔥
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 25d
What happens to the arrows that miss?
Better to use a drone to just douse this thing in black spray paint at close range
PanGodofPanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 25d
OP has repeatedly posted stuff like this to argue that dystopian mass surveillance is fine actually because it pisses off drivers (and apparently somehow not everyone else with a fucking brain?). That is a deranged take, and this is the third post of theirs I've seen in the last couple days simping for the technofascist megacorps, and getting rightly dunked on by the comments. It's extra wild to see a db0 account take this stance. This does not belong in this community.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 25d
Looking forward to the cipher punk dogfights of people's drones attacking these things
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d
You can just throw a rock at drones and they crash, no fight needed, just throw the smallest cheapest thing you can at it and it’s done
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 25d
And those rocks land on someone's head
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 25d
I love the irony that they do this but hide all of their info and want privacy, calling the police on anyone that comes close and claiming they're armed lunatics. Classic police collusion, trust the CEO over normal people. Always protect capital. Same methodology as the Bricks and Minifigs drama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3MQLlMbS-Y
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 23d
Capitalism is a disease.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 22d
Love me some philosofree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01wcUXRqG78
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 25d
Yeah these things need to be targeted for sport.
Flock, can you just go the way of Enron already?
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 25d
Free clay everybody!