Speed Trap on The Slade

Thu 9 Oct 2008, 18:50

There is no escape with modern technology. There is always an enforcement option ;) Try this heads up from the inimitable BoingBoing copied below with url links, and remember, that with Big Brother if you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to fear...

(Aside... if we are sleepwalking to totalitarianism in the guise of "terrorisms" exaggerated paranoia as justification, but the motor vehicle of all sorts kills thousands a year, more than the annual casualties in world war II, perhaps total surveillance of people armed with these lethal roadway weapons is justified and we can just stop worrying about the tiny threat posed by a few looney suicide bombers, given the comparative casualty rates... If people were shooting this many people nationally each year think of the outcry. But if you get "shot" by a vehicle driver then no one is too bothered. Does anyone else detect a sort of illogical psychic blindness here, or is it just me and my overactive Spockian logic circuitry...)
www.boingboing.net/2008/10/08/uk-to-install-cluste.html
"" UK to install clusters of cameras to catch speeders
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, October 8, 2008 4:02 PM
The UK is going to install camera clusters on hundreds of roads next year to "monitor drivers’ average speed on all routes across a wide area."

It will be impossible to evade detection because the digital cameras will cover every entry and exit point and, unlike the earlier speed cameras, will never run out of film.

Drivers who slow down briefly or who make a detour from the main route will still be caught because up to 50 of the cameras will work together in a network. They can be positioned more than 15 miles apart and will automatically read numberplates and transmit data instantly to a penalty processing centre.

Existing average-speed cameras cover a maximum of six miles, work in pairs and have to be connected by a cable, so their installation is costly and time-consuming. Drivers can also escape detection by turning off the route between the cameras.

If they are going to get this hardcore about it, you'd think they'd require speed-limiters in cars that would physically prevent them from speeding. Of course they won't do that because that'd obviate the need for those wonderfully-named "penalty processing centres.""
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/article4909662.ece

I think fines should be assigned as community funding to the towns and villages blighted by speeding, sort of a naughty boy or girl tax put to socially useful ends eh. And if we have our own penalty processing centre it would be a few local jobs being created and thus reducing travel needs for those employees and being overall a carbonaceous "good".

Where would we put our cluster cameras to catch all going through town?