Australian Police Want Aerial Surveillance Drones to Track License Plates and Monitor Cars of Int...

popsci.com — The city of Canberra is installing a suite of new point-to-point speed cameras, which read a car’s license plate to calculate its average speed between two set points. The system can thereby determine whether a driver is traveling within the speed limit. But Aussie authorities also mulled other uses for the two-camera technology, like using them to detect stolen cars or unregistered vehicles. Or integrating them into a broader surface-to-air surveillance network. Sep 24, 2011 View in Crawl 4

Australian Police Want Aerial Surveillance Drones to Track License Plates and Monitor Cars of Interest