The controversial law enforcement vendor Flock Safety wanted to make every Uber, Lyft, and delivery car a moving license-plate reader.
Flock said it never actually launched the Nexar deal. The document still shows how far the company wanted to stretch its reach.
The Nexar idea would have untethered these cameras from the pole. Instead of one camera watching one intersection, 350,000 cars would have carried the camera with them, filling gaps between fixed sites and tracking plates across whole regions in real time.
Axon sells a similar roaming version for police cruisers; Motorola's DRN and Vigilant do it through repossession agents' cars. Flock's pitch was to do it at civilian scale.
Flock hit an $8.4 billion valuation in April and its stationary cameras now cover more than 5,000 U.S. communities. Yet the ground is shifting under that network. In July, the LAPD let its Flock contract expire, citing "serious concerns" over civil liberties and privacy.
