In the summer of 2024, a police officer in the Sacramento suburb of Roseville, California, called a man to discuss a persistent problem with his license plate.
The city’s AI-powered license plate readers, made by the tech startup Flock Safety, had repeatedly misread the man’s plate. At least six times, Flock had sent alerts to the Roseville Police Department, identifying his vehicle as stolen or used in a felony crime. Roseville police could see that Flock’s software kept confusing the “9” on the man’s license plate for an “8.”
The car owner said he would take off his license plate cover. Soon after, it happened again.
Flock says that in optimal conditions, its cameras accurately read more than 96% of license plate characters. Hundreds of pages of records from the Roseville Police Department show a different picture.
Read more about the repeated errors by Flock’s system in one California town on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/eaPCJQHB
(Credit: Andri Tambunan for Business Insider)
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