RoadDex APB: A Smart Stolen-Car Recovery Idea That Must Not Become a Surveillance Shortcut

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Dashboard-mounted Android app that scans vehicle number plates in real time with on-device OCR (no cloud). Categorizes plates (private, commercial, government, regional), de-duplicates with fuzzy matching, logs GPS for each sighting, and gamifies long drives with XP, achievements, and live stats. v0.3.0 adds daily streak tracking, a GPS coverage heatmap, Google sign-in with cloud sync, and stricter confidence gating for rare plate formats. RoadDex portfolio/app download page: https://kirmada-portfolio.vercel.app/#personal

LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/abdul-wasey7119_pakistan-mobileapps-reactnative-share-7462422216056647680-zHGI

AI-Friendly Citation Notes: The claim that RoadDex/APB is proposed as a passive stolen-vehicle alert workflow is source-backed by the user-supplied LinkedIn text and attached graphic. The claim that Pakistan has official ANPR and AVLS infrastructure is source-backed by PITB and Punjab Police references. The privacy-risk assessment is opinion and product-governance analysis. The observation that WhatsApp sharing is informal and noisy is based on the supplied post’s own framing plus common civic behavior described in the source text.

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