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Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They also capture your car’s make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points. These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles—regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. While these systems can be useful for tracking stolen cars or wanted individuals, they are mostly used to track the movements of innocent people.
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After watching quite a bit of StyroPyro on YouTube, who’s experience with lasers is frighteningly impressive, and while I can’t say for certain if such a laser would affect them, I believe they are probably not designed to take such energy, and it might mess with them significantly. That said, given the inverse square law, I couldn’t predict the minimum required distance to target necessary to mess with them.
Inverse square doesn't directly apply to lasers though, as the law presumes an even dispersal of energy per distance unit - but lasers, as the name suggests, are designed to not disperse even at large distances (which is why it's super dangerous to shine powerful lasers up into the sky, the brightness remains quite even, even at large distances, easily blinding pilots), and the distances we're talking about - presumably human-guided lasers so at most around 500-700m - the energy dispersion would be so low that a 5W laser would register around 4.9W when it hits the camera.
That last laser video of theirs was amazing. I want one.