A woman drives with both hands on the wheel. Her phone sits face-down on her lap. No officer pulls her over. No lights flash. Weeks later, a $1,251 ticket arrives in the mail. The evidence: a single frame from a Camera surveillance app. The charge: phone use while driving.

Automated camera companies market their devices as automated license plate readers — tools for catching stolen cars, flagging warrants, and aiding serious investigations.

Sold as a Crime Tool. Used as a Fine Machine.

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    No. You’re thinking of an arduino. Or one of the company’s lines of microcontrollers, which isn’t what people mean when they say ‘a pi’.

    A raspberry pi is basically a phone equivalent. Different architecture, but same magnitude of flops. The versions with enough ram cost about aw much as a phone and don’t come with storage or power cable. Both of which you would need, so add an m.2 drive for the referents.

    And a box fan under it and a copper brick to glue to the CPU, maybe another for the RAM, because its gonna get hot.

    But you don’t know what any of those words mean, and don’t understand that other sensors exist. But like if you did understand any of what I said; you’d feel mortified as fuck right now.