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>From: Robert Ussery [mailto:uavscience@FRII.COM]
>
>Jeez... And I thought we had it bad here in Colorado where the
>speed cameras are mounted as mobile units. They don't trigger
>until about 8 MPH over the limit. I've gone past 'em several
>times pushing 10 MPH over the limit, and have yet to get
>photographed. Same with the cops here. They don't give a damn
>as long as you're going less than 10 over the limit (assuming
>you're driving normally otherwise - very little tolerance for
>sloppy or discourteous driving).

In the UK we not only have thousands of fixed cameras, using either radar or
buried strips in the road, we have mobile units equipped with laser speed
dection that video any trangressors and send a Notice of Intended
Prosecution through the post based on the registration number of the car.

Then we have the really nasty one; SPECS, a system of automatic number plate
recognition that times cars over a fixed distance (i.e. can't just slow down
for the cameras).  The cameras are mounted way up on poles with powerfull
infra-red lights so they work at night.  Unfortunately the government are
brainwashing the population into believing that the only route to safe
driving is to drive slowly, never mind the fact that the number of accidents
involving cars considerably over the speed limit are in a very tiny
minority.

The only good and usefull bit of technology our police use (IMO) is a system
called ANPR (Automatice Number Plate Recognition).  This system is fitted to
many traffic police cars and continuously reads in number plates of
surrounding cars, fetches details of the cars owner and the vehicles
taxation and insurance status from a central database.  Not only does this
catch road tax dodgers and the uninsured, they have also caught many people
who have e.g. skipped bail.

Regards

Mike




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