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Traffic Camera Misread Text on Pedestrian's Shirt as License Plate, Causing UK Officials to Issue Fine to an Unrelated Person
A Bath resident was wrongly fined by the local officials because an automated license plate recognition camera misread the text on her shirt as a license plate number.
- Date it happened
- 2021-10-18
- Organisation involved
- Bath government
- Product, system or model
- Traffic cameras record the roads and intersections in order to detect traffic violations like driving in the bus lane.
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