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Originally posted by arg
Interstates for about 60 miles surrounding Detroit all have camera towers at virtually every interchange, with microwave transmitters and most with solar panels. The primary purpose, ostensibly, is to monitor traffic conditions, so that drivers can be advised of backups and alternate routes. These cameras seem too few and too far to get license plates. They could probably be used to keep an eye out for colors and models of vehicles, but that would probably be the extent of their surveillance capability.
A bank of six cameras on an overpass though, that's different. I agree, it has to be to identify vehicles, whether in real time or for later processing as needed. Sounds intriguing.
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Yeh Florida has those traffic cams also and publicly available too.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/traffic...oast_cams.html
But these were exactly angled with several cameras covering each of the 3 southbound lanes pointed downward directly to the plates.
You just have to wonder who is getting that data, what they are doing with it, and who are they looking for?