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		dwyerm on Sept 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a license plate reader from scratch with ... For what it is worth, I'm pretty sure that Amazon is already doing this at their Amazon Fresh drive-up stores. When you drive up, a sign lights up to say that your order is coming soon. The experience degrades a little bit if you arrive in a car they've never seen before -- a human stops by your window with a tablet to check you in.

Spooky23 on Sept 13, 2019 [–]

That’s really cool!

Haven’t seen these yet, but Target has a pretty cool system that is app based. Easy to see how they could hook in cars.

dwyerm on Sept 16, 2019 | [–]

Huh. It didn't even occur to me that they could also be using the app on my phone to do the same thing, and do it more accurately.

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