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How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2026
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While I agree that Flock sucks, using alternate timelines as arguments isn't working
Everyone is all ears for solutions: https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/we-follow-through/clevelands-flock-safety-cameras-set-to-go-dark
I don't think we're using alternate timelines enough. This is an example of a situation where nobody involved wanted to be in that situation, and it happened anyway. Who had something they could've done differently that wouldn't have brought that situation to a Kohl's parking lot? Maybe instead of reviewing a range rover he should've been reviewing a rental Nissan Versa?
Right now Flock can have as absolutely shit of an AI as they want and there's no incentive to improve it. False positives don't cost them anything. And P.S. the video data isn't ever going away.