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We don't even take care of our veterans properly. Why are we even thinking of doing this.

A data entry error is causing Colorado police to repeatedly pull over Kyle Dausman because of false hits on automated license plate readers. Dausman does not have any warrants, but the system keeps telling officers that he does. The issue stems from Flock Safety cameras reading his license plate and matching it to a warrant for a completely different person. That warrant was entered into the system using both the number zero and the letter O to cover different plate variations, which directly linked Dausman's clean plate to the wanted person's profile.

This means that every time Dausman drives past one of these cameras, nearby patrol cars get an urgent alert that a wanted person is driving his car. Officers from the Cherry Hills Village Police Department pulled him over multiple times in just a few days because of these alerts. Dausman has expressed serious fears for his safety during these high-intensity stops and feels like he cannot safely use his own vehicle. Fixing the problem is incredibly difficult because the warrant originated in Gilpin County, and local police cannot easily delete the alert from the state's master database.

Automotive tracking and data collection are areas where tech is moving far beyond simple GPS maps, and several patent filings illustrate how deep this technology could go. One described system captures biometric data like your face, iris, and fingerprints when you climb into the driver's seat. Instead of just using this data to unlock the doors, the software concept details running your biometrics through a law enforcement database in real time to check for active warrants or criminal records before you can even pull out of your driveway. Other filings outline concepts for tracking your physical state through a combination of cameras reading your eyes, facial expressions, and even your heart rate. If the vehicle's computer determines that you are panicking, excessively tired, or physically impaired to drive, it could lock down the vehicle or lock the transmission to prevent you from shifting into gear.

Another proposal tackles how to handle voice commands when the vehicle cabin gets too loud, such as driving a convertible with the roof down. To get around the heavy wind and background noise, cameras and sensors would track the movements of your lips and read them to figure out exactly what you are saying. The system could even emit inaudible sound waves off your mouth and read the returning echoes to decipher your speech without relying on a traditional microphone.

This highly detailed lip-reading capability would tie directly into separate systems designed to monitor in-car conversations for monetization. By actively listening to the dialogue of everyone sitting in the cabin, the software would grab keywords to serve highly targeted audio and visual ads on the center screen based on what you and your passengers are actively talking about.

Automakers frequently clarify that filing a patent is a standard business practice to explore new concepts and does not guarantee that these features will ever make it to a production vehicle. However, despite these statements, the patents were officially filed with the government.