dvla questionarre
Discussion
Sent my comments in. A small sample:
Q18. Do you believe that issuing plates with a different coloured background to taxis and private hire cars would bring benefits to public safety?
Possibly, but nothing like as much benefit as an effective police force that weren't ordered to devote 99% of their effort into capturing speeding motorists. However, you must make sure that SPECs cameras can identify these different colour plates in order to continue the pointless persecution of motorists whilst giving no perceptable benefit to saety.
Q22. Do you consider bar-coding to be a viable option?
Bar codes on tins of beans are seem to cause plenty of problems in supermarkets, and they aren't covered with stone chips and a layers of squashed flies.
Q24. What is your view on the possibility of incorporating microchips in plates?
It would involve some kind of large governement IT project. It would be completed 5 years late and cost the tax payer 10 times the initial estimate. After 6 months of buggy operation and a media frenzy involving the widow of a long deceased man receiving a fine for her husband allegedly driving around with an illegal number plate, the entire project would be scrapped, wasting millions of pounds.
No, I don't think it's a great idea.
Q18. Do you believe that issuing plates with a different coloured background to taxis and private hire cars would bring benefits to public safety?
Possibly, but nothing like as much benefit as an effective police force that weren't ordered to devote 99% of their effort into capturing speeding motorists. However, you must make sure that SPECs cameras can identify these different colour plates in order to continue the pointless persecution of motorists whilst giving no perceptable benefit to saety.
Q22. Do you consider bar-coding to be a viable option?
Bar codes on tins of beans are seem to cause plenty of problems in supermarkets, and they aren't covered with stone chips and a layers of squashed flies.
Q24. What is your view on the possibility of incorporating microchips in plates?
It would involve some kind of large governement IT project. It would be completed 5 years late and cost the tax payer 10 times the initial estimate. After 6 months of buggy operation and a media frenzy involving the widow of a long deceased man receiving a fine for her husband allegedly driving around with an illegal number plate, the entire project would be scrapped, wasting millions of pounds.
No, I don't think it's a great idea.
...that manPoD, do you have a link to the paper that the questionnaire is connected with?
I started to fill in the questionnaire but then noticed that the questions seem to be referring to VIN plates rather than VRM plates ("number" plates).
I'd like to see exactly what it is they're proposing before shooting it down in flames!
I started to fill in the questionnaire but then noticed that the questions seem to be referring to VIN plates rather than VRM plates ("number" plates).
I'd like to see exactly what it is they're proposing before shooting it down in flames!
I think the questions themselves spoke volumes. They were often loaded/biased.
It seems to me that they've already made thier minds up what they're going to do, regardless of what the consultation brings up.
Remember that even a few thousand individual members of the puiblic won't be able to compete in committee stages with the vested interests of the DoT Transport committee, egged on by the big IT companies waiting to pick up the contract, and of course that company that makes over 50% of the numberplates sold in the UK.
You might want to buy your shares in those groups now...
John
It seems to me that they've already made thier minds up what they're going to do, regardless of what the consultation brings up.
Remember that even a few thousand individual members of the puiblic won't be able to compete in committee stages with the vested interests of the DoT Transport committee, egged on by the big IT companies waiting to pick up the contract, and of course that company that makes over 50% of the numberplates sold in the UK.
You might want to buy your shares in those groups now...
John
It's a very old consultation paper.
In fact here's the results of it... dated March 2004!
www.dvla.gov.uk/public/consult/consultee_rep_veh_num_plate_sec.htm
In fact here's the results of it... dated March 2004!
www.dvla.gov.uk/public/consult/consultee_rep_veh_num_plate_sec.htm
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