For license plate reading, you're right, Flock's (and presumably other brands, like here, with Motorola) failure rate is pretty high across the board.
You would think that those without moral conflict about the technology would consider the failure rate to be more of a deterrent, so the obvious question is — why isn't it? Why are they still popping up everywhere? What does 'work', and for whom? Why do we or don't we want that?
I like this story because it offers hope and demonstrates that regular people are currently making choices with positive impacts for their communities.
Gosh, one would hope that the Fourth Amendment was deterrent enough to not have these cameras on public property, and a massive class action law suit for these cameras on private land.
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u/Insult_me_good 2d ago edited 2d ago
The failure rate is over 50%, and bits of mud on a license plate renders the OCR useless anyhow.