Processes up to 3,000 plates per hour.
Wikipedia offers some more information on Automatic Number Plate Recognition, including circumvention techniques.
If you think plate recognition is scary, I dare you to read about facial recognition.
Think it will never happen? It already has. FaceIt was used in 2001 at the Super Bowl XXXV and resulted in the apprehension of 19 humans.
(Doesn’t the word “humans” sound like “animals”? What is friendlier about the word “people”?)
If you want to learn more about FaceIT, you could always check out the product guidelines online.