A Starvis 2 camera with one wide angle and one telephoto lens in the same housing would probably capture every plate, even at night.
Those of us who have been around dash cameras for a decade or more have witnessed the introduction of new sensor technologies that have pushed the state of the art forward and go on to become game changers.
In the "early days" you could mostly only find 720p dash cams but eventually 1080p cameras were introduced. You could get pretty impressive results during the day but it was not "great" by today's standards. The cameras suffered from low bit rates that often produced poor dynamic range and pixel blocking artifacts. The main problem was that these cameras were almost useless at night. With most cameras, at best you could see a very grainy image in front of your car with your bright headlights on. Even driving on a brightly lit city street image capture wasn't so great.
Then, in 2013 cameras such as the
LS300W, the nearly identical but lower priced clone the
GT300W and the even lower priced clone-of-a-clone
GW1 series were introduced. The cameras used the then new
NT96650 processor along with the cutting edge
Aptina AR0330 CMOS sensor. For the very first time with a few select exceptions (like the
Panorma II) we now had a dash cam that could capture a serviceable image at night in low light settings with improved image quality during the day. This was an absolute game changer! Again, by today's standard it was just ok but back then it was groundbreaking and it changed the dash cam industry.
Before the AR0330/NT96650 combination was introduced footage like this was impossible. The detail and lack of noise and graininess was a new expereince.
Of course, we've seen a steady stream of important incremental improvements in sensor technology along the way such various Sony products like the IMX355 but the new Starvis 2 series is shaping up to be another one of those rare great leaps forward, game changing technologies that blow through the envelope. It will be interesting to see all the new products that eventually make their way into the marketplace. Maybe one of them will be a dual channel wide/tele?