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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 1 day ago

Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O"

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Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O"

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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 1 day ago
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Colorado Grandma Keeps Getting Pulled Over Because Police Cameras Cannot Tell the Difference Between a Zero and the Letter O
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A 76-year-old woman in Colorado did not expect her golden years to involve repeated run-ins with law enforcement. Yet here she is, getting pulled over again

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  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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    Wow complete miss. Just not at all what we’re doing here

    • bright@piefed.social
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      OP isn’t blaming the person, they’re saying it’s dumb for the state to use license plate characters that’re easily misread.

    • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
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      The error wouldn’t exist if the plates didn’t allow O and 0.

      Atleast that’s what the article mentions.

      • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
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        Or have specific alpha/numeric positions, like a post code.

        • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
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          Vanity plates dude.

    • eleijeep@piefed.social
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      So you’re telling me that one of those characters is not part of the character set used on license plates?

      • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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        I’m saying you’re helping to normalize fascism. This isn’t about alphanumerics, it’s about the spying on everyone that’s the issue

        Of course

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