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Yesterday, I received a dunning letter from a toll road company in California. They want me to pay $2.92 with a one month deadline, or a penalty of $100 will be added on.
This is the new car I bought in Jan 2021, and has not been driven to CA. The letter says I can go on their Web site to dispute. So, I went there, and saw that there were a total of 3 citations issued to my license plate. What a crock!
So, I submitted a dispute saying the car has never been to CA. Have not heard back from them.
I think their camera vision system that read car license plates messed up, and misread some other plates as mine. Then, they tapped into a national registry, and tracked the registration to my name and home in AZ.
This shows why people are concerned about the use of computers for surveillance and to identify people by facial features. If the computer cannot read a license plate reliably, how do you trust it to recognize people's face? Or is it possible that different states happen to assign the same random 6-letter license plate to more than one car?
I wonder how often incidences like this happen.
This is the new car I bought in Jan 2021, and has not been driven to CA. The letter says I can go on their Web site to dispute. So, I went there, and saw that there were a total of 3 citations issued to my license plate. What a crock!
So, I submitted a dispute saying the car has never been to CA. Have not heard back from them.
I think their camera vision system that read car license plates messed up, and misread some other plates as mine. Then, they tapped into a national registry, and tracked the registration to my name and home in AZ.
This shows why people are concerned about the use of computers for surveillance and to identify people by facial features. If the computer cannot read a license plate reliably, how do you trust it to recognize people's face? Or is it possible that different states happen to assign the same random 6-letter license plate to more than one car?
I wonder how often incidences like this happen.
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