For those who thought it was fun to see Google Maps cars driving around the city, now you need to be careful. In São Paulo, CET-SP adhesive-coated vehicles drive through the city with cameras attached to the ceiling to monitor spaces in the blue zone. Such cars “Squealer” use cameras to access license plate information and check the regularity of the vehicle in the parked place.

You “good cars” as they are called, have been operated since December 2020 by Estapar, the company that manages car parks in the city of São Paulo. 80 cars with cameras roaming the streets. Models used by the company for verification: Hyundai HB20, Fiat Uno, Fiat Mobi and Renault Kwid. Cameras mounted on the roof of cars use an optical character recognition (OCR) system. The read data is sent to a clearinghouse in real time, which checks if the license plates are linked to the Blue Zone system and also analyzes the available vehicle usage time.

Thus, the inspector is informed of any violations present in the vacancies. In addition to confirming that the information received by the cameras is true. If the inspector confirms the violation, the data will be sent to CET-SP and the penalty due will be applied.

According to information published by Estapar, OCR technology is currently only used to check parking spaces in the blue zone. However, there is also the possibility of using such technology to detect stolen vehicles.

Illegal parking is a serious offence.

According to the Brazilian road code, improper parking of a vehicle in blue zone areas is considered a serious violation, which entails 5 points on CNH (national driving license), in addition to a fine of BRL 195.23.

So far, “beautiful cars” are present only in the city of São Paulo, but it is not surprising if they begin to appear in other major capitals of the Brazilian territory.

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Source: Wal