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Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O"
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Why do you have both zero and the letter O in your license plates?
My plates have 0, O and Q, I hate it
Flock is programmed to run it both as a zero and an O. It returns both as results to one car. The programmers were concerned it couldn't recognize the difference.
So a plate of 123 MNO
Would return both
123 MNO
123 MN0
Some states may not use zeros at all, but most of them do today.
And unfortunately this lady has a tag that is similar to one a suspect used at one time.
I mean that’s just common sense? Even a person calling into the police wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. Any sane jurisdiction has a single instance of confusing digits. So hence why flock works that way, it’s the objectively correct way.
How our jurisdiction handles custom license plates
And yet in non-flock instances, this is checked and verified before inconveniencing the person. And there's not a network of cameras at every intersection to false-identify people.
So weird that scaling up a problematic response doesn't fix the root problem!
What…? What give you the idea that the police wouldn’t respond to someone calling a stolen vehicle in?
If someone calls in a stolen vehicle because of a misidentified plate, the cops are showing up. You can’t just make shit up to defend your point.
And the root of the problem is having license plates that can be confused with each other, Glock has nothing to do with this error, it’s purely a design issue of the plates. People make this mistake ALL the time, it’s why smart jurisdictions solved this decades ago. Even before tech was an issue mate…
Thats how to say "I didn't read the article" without saying "I didn't read the article".
If they weren’t illegally spying on us in the first place it wouldn’t matter
Actually, people make this mistake too, so jurisdictions should fix the root of the issue. Which is confusing characters even being allowed on the plate to begin with.
When you were saying "you" it was not clear you were asking about the state's systems of distributing license plates containing both zero and O instead of this individual's license plate. The number of downvotes on your original post suggests I was not the only one confused by your statement.
They pluralized it, it clearly isn’t about someone’s personal plate, they were speaking at large.
Yes, because one person (this being you) incorrectly called them out and caused people to just downvote without reading it. This is entirely on you dude.
Most jurisdictions I'm aware of have a plate on the front and back of the car. The plural still reads as a single car with my original reading.
I fully admit I had the wrong reading with the additional viewpoint. Can you now admit that there are multiple ways to interpret the original post even if my first reading wasn't the correct one?
Account is either a troll or just act like one
Poster was unclear in what they were communicating. I get what they're saying now, but it was easy to read a different meaning.
No, you just commented without thinking.
They clearly used the universal “you” and they pluralized the word “plates” making it non personal.
Most jurisdictions I’m aware of have a plate on the front and back of the car. The plural still reads as a single car with my original reading.
I fully admit I had the wrong reading with the additional viewpoint. Can you now admit that there are multiple ways to interpret the original post even if my first reading wasn’t the correct one?
Nope.
You’d have to intentionally misconstrue it to get that definition, most places require multiples plates so that’s stretching.
You also lost all right to defend yourself or get forgiveness for just being an outright ass to the user instead of addressing it politely in your original response
You wanted a “gotcha”, fucked up and are now trying to justify it, stop.
Wait, you're arguing in my defense now that a plural supports my reading of an individual instead of an entire system?
So you're saying what I did was intentionally say something I didn't believe? That's your argument? But wait, two posts ago you said my fault was different:
So which is it, was it carelessness on my part or did I intentionally misconstrue it?
Did you miss me admitting three posts up that I made a mistake? I don't know why you're searching so hard for a fault, when I already told you I made an honest mistake, and why I made that mistake.
Then now you have become what you appear to hate. Your own position is now hypocritical. There are multiple readings, I have admitted my fault and now you are the only one that remains unapologetic for your mistake. Keep posting replies if you like. I am now thoroughly confused what you're trying to accomplish.
Wow complete miss. Just not at all what we’re doing here
OP isn't blaming the person, they're saying it's dumb for the state to use license plate characters that're easily misread.
The error wouldn’t exist if the plates didn’t allow O and 0.
Atleast that’s what the article mentions.
Or have specific alpha/numeric positions, like a post code.
Vanity plates dude.
So you're telling me that one of those characters is not part of the character set used on license plates?
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