Neighbors are using these smart cameras to track strangers' cars — and yours
LOS ANGELES - On a quiet road south of Ventura Boulevard, two cameras on a pole watch over the road, facing opposite directions.
A block away, another brace of cameras sit sentry. Together, they constantly film the two points of entry to a closed loop of public streets in Sherman Oaks.
Nearby, on a dual-screen setup in the basement of his hillside home, Robert Shontell pulls up hundreds of snippets of footage captured by the cameras earlier that day. Each shows a car, time-stamped and tagged with the make, model, paint color and license plate.
He searches for a silver Honda spotted between the hours of 1 and 2 p.m. After some scrolling, a shot of my car - and me - pops up.
"The most surprising thing is just
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