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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 · 18 hours ago

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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The error wouldn’t exist if the plates didn’t allow O and 0.

Atleast that’s what the article mentions.
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  Or have specific alpha/numeric positions, like a post code.
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    Vanity plates dude.

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