Google was contacted, but Google spokesperson Susan Cadrecha said, “We can confirm that this is not a Google Maps car, and that we are currently looking into the matter.” The Philadelphia police department has been open about using the scanning technology since 2011, so the question remained about ownership and why it had the decals. The data collected can either be processed in real time, at the site of the read, or it can be transmitted to remote center and processed at a later time.”
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According to ELSAG North America, a company that makes ALPRs and possibly the units in Blaze’s photo, “Generally speaking, License Plate Readers (LPRs) can record plates at about one per second at speeds of up to 100 mph and they often utilize infrared cameras for clarity and to facilitate reading at any time of day or night. Because ALPR can effectively track an individual’s movements without a warrant, they’re considered controversial. The immediate question that came to mind was, whose vehicle is it, and why does it have Google Maps decals?ĪLPR cameras scan, track, and send license plate and vehicle data to a computer, which in Philadelphia can be stored up to a year. Blaze took a picture and tweeted it with the comment “WTF,” according to Motherboard.
Philadelphia police SUV with Google Maps decal and two license plate cameras Matt Blaze (Twitter) you were near the Philadelphia Convention Center earlier this week, did you notice this vehicle in the tunnel? At first glance, it appears to be a Google Maps vehicle, maybe on a break, but University of Pennsylvania computer and information science professor Matt Blaze noticed two automated license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras on the roof.
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