{"id":74751,"date":"2015-03-06T09:07:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/?p=74751"},"modified":"2015-03-06T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:25:36","slug":"look-at-this-montreal-automated-license-plate-scanner-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp\/2015\/03\/look-at-this-montreal-automated-license-plate-scanner-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:fr-->Look At This Montreal Automated License Plate Scanner Vehicle <!--:--><!--:en-->Look At This Montreal Automated License Plate Scanner Vehicle <!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:fr-->Look At This Montreal Automated License Plate Scanner Vehicle<\/p>\n<p>One of our members (PolishSausage) snapped a photo of this ridiculous-looking contraption being used by the city of Montreal to scan license plates.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the photo it\u2019s being operated by Stationnement de Montr\u00e9al so we don\u2019t believe it\u2019s checking for expired registrations as this isn\u2019t their jurisdiction. What\u2019s likely happening here is the city is scanning for unpaid parking spaces and the cameras will auto-issue a ticket much the same as if you got caught speeding in a photo-radar zone.<\/p>\n<p>As another member put it: At least they\u2019re being discreet!<\/p>\n<p>Discussion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/forums\/showthread.php?883301-Spotted-SUV-with-cameras-mounted-on-it-dt\">http:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/forums\/showthread.php?883301-Spotted-SUV-with-cameras-mounted-on-it-dt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update: Guillaume Boily posted a better photo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0315-plate-scanner3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74754\" alt=\"0315-plate-scanner3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0315-plate-scanner3.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0315-plate-scanner3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0315-plate-scanner3-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0315-plate-scanner3-77x80.jpg 77w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><!--:--><!--:en-->Look At This Montreal Automated License Plate Scanner Vehicle<\/p>\n<p>One of our members (PolishSausage) snapped a photo of this ridiculous-looking contraption being used by the city of Montreal to scan license plates.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the photo it\u2019s being operated by Stationnement de Montr\u00e9al so we don\u2019t believe it\u2019s checking for expired registrations as this isn\u2019t their jurisdiction. What\u2019s likely happening here is the city is scanning for unpaid parking spaces and the cameras will auto-issue a ticket much the same as if you got caught speeding in a photo-radar zone.<\/p>\n<p>As another member put it: At least they\u2019re being discreet!<\/p>\n<p>Discussion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/forums\/showthread.php?883301-Spotted-SUV-with-cameras-mounted-on-it-dt\">http:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/forums\/showthread.php?883301-Spotted-SUV-with-cameras-mounted-on-it-dt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update: Guillaume Boily posted a better photo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0315-plate-scanner3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0315-plate-scanner3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0315-plate-scanner3.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look At This Montreal Automated License Plate Scanner Vehicle One of our members (PolishSausage) snapped a photo of this ridiculous-looking contraption being used by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":74752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1829,2041,2040,86,1904,1859,273],"class_list":["post-74751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-government","tag-immatriculation","tag-license-plate-scanner","tag-montreal","tag-parking","tag-plates","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74755,"href":"https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74751\/revisions\/74755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montrealracing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}