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From: dclaar@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Doug Claar)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Beating Robocop
Message-ID: <7110005@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 88 19:02:04 GMT
References: <901@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> that the reason California
> was testing the reflective license plates out, was that there was a
> device being tested to read them from a distance... 

Yeah, and the whole world is out to get you :-(  The drive for reflective
plates was spearheaded by a parent whose child was killed when he (?)
ran into a disabled vehicle at night. With reflective plates, he might
have seen the car in time.

Doug Claar
HP Information Technology Group
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