How long before SPECS on EVERY road?
Discussion
In modern socialist britain whereby everyone must follow strict rules and ones ability to think and act for themselves is no longer an approved government policy......how long before every road has SPECS cameras on it?
A few years ago there was the threat from NuLabior of little black boxes in every car that would report to monitoring authorities the current speed and location of every car (in theory). And more importantly the fact that if your vehicle strays a couple of miles per hour over a predefined limit then an automatic payment to the people in power would be welcomed.
As there has been no movement on the above it seems the next 'bright' idea may be that SPECS seems to be working, and following the recent case on the M6 motorway whereby the authorities netted a tidy sum of 3 million british pounds into their wallet, it could follow suit that installation of SPECS on every road with traffic flows over a certain volume could be 'justified' in their narrow minded little politician heads.
It maybe they would install permanent SPECS at evey 10km on the motorways.....and every 5km on major 'A' roads?
Even rural roads could be monitored and the hopeful of fines flowing in from a reduction of all rural roads from 60mph to 50mph?
They would attempt to justify the expendature on 'saving the planet from impending destruction' by forcing people to drive 'economically'....or even the usual case of ignoring their own road injury statistics which for years and years has never put speeding related accidents above 5% of the total......and like before, try to make out that speed is the root of ALL road accidents.
What are the views of pistonheaders on this?
A few years ago there was the threat from NuLabior of little black boxes in every car that would report to monitoring authorities the current speed and location of every car (in theory). And more importantly the fact that if your vehicle strays a couple of miles per hour over a predefined limit then an automatic payment to the people in power would be welcomed.
As there has been no movement on the above it seems the next 'bright' idea may be that SPECS seems to be working, and following the recent case on the M6 motorway whereby the authorities netted a tidy sum of 3 million british pounds into their wallet, it could follow suit that installation of SPECS on every road with traffic flows over a certain volume could be 'justified' in their narrow minded little politician heads.
It maybe they would install permanent SPECS at evey 10km on the motorways.....and every 5km on major 'A' roads?
Even rural roads could be monitored and the hopeful of fines flowing in from a reduction of all rural roads from 60mph to 50mph?
They would attempt to justify the expendature on 'saving the planet from impending destruction' by forcing people to drive 'economically'....or even the usual case of ignoring their own road injury statistics which for years and years has never put speeding related accidents above 5% of the total......and like before, try to make out that speed is the root of ALL road accidents.
What are the views of pistonheaders on this?
Unfortunately I think it's a virtual certainty in the not too distant future.
At which point my number plate will be ripped off the front of the car and placed in two bits in the passenger footwell in case a copper ever pulls me over.
Not that they will because the police will have all been replaced by cameras.
At which point my number plate will be ripped off the front of the car and placed in two bits in the passenger footwell in case a copper ever pulls me over.
Not that they will because the police will have all been replaced by cameras.
Never
Too many roads and too many junctions
Example this is about a square mile near me
You need about 20 cameras to police it as you would need one at each junction to accurately measure a random cars speed
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=aberdeen&ie=UT...
I think there is probably less then 20 houses in the same area
Its just not doable on every road
Too many roads and too many junctions
Example this is about a square mile near me
You need about 20 cameras to police it as you would need one at each junction to accurately measure a random cars speed
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=aberdeen&ie=UT...
I think there is probably less then 20 houses in the same area
Its just not doable on every road
Never, the whole system will be replaced by satalite tracking soon. Now the Star Wars project has been shelved and they are sat dormant in orbit. The septics are running a trial now. Tracking vehicles from space recording speed and issuing a fine direct to your bank account before you get home.
It may not be on every road but it'll be on every motorway and dc soon.
I drove Manchester to Southampton recently. The M56, M6, M1, M25 and M3 were very well covered by SPECS. Middle of the night, nobody doing any f
king work, no traffic but had to stick religiously to 50mph for fear of getting taxed
I drove Manchester to Southampton recently. The M56, M6, M1, M25 and M3 were very well covered by SPECS. Middle of the night, nobody doing any f
king work, no traffic but had to stick religiously to 50mph for fear of getting taxedMr Gearchange said:
Unfortunately I think it's a virtual certainty in the not too distant future.
At which point my number plate will be ripped off the front of the car and placed in two bits in the passenger footwell in case a copper ever pulls me over.
Not that they will because the police will have all been replaced by cameras.
Only issue I can see wiht this is some camera operator who is on minimum wage + number of convictions bonus will then look for you car on the million of traffic camaras and get your plate number from behind and you get double whammy, the speeding + some trumped up trying to avoid speeding cameras chargeAt which point my number plate will be ripped off the front of the car and placed in two bits in the passenger footwell in case a copper ever pulls me over.
Not that they will because the police will have all been replaced by cameras.
Best thing is to get a PL plated car like 99.9999999999999999999999999% of people in SE London seem to be driving then you dont need to obey laws, road rules or have tax, insurance, MOT nuffink
Unless I missed it, there is no mention in this thread of the other Labour goal - universal road charging. Their chosen system will enable them to kill two of our rights with one wrong.
Whether it be by fixed cameras at every access point, or by GPS, they'll be able to use the excuse of constant monitoring of speed ("If you don't break the law, you have nothing to worry about..."
) to justify road charging, and to use the excuse of road charging ("If we're going to meet our carbon reduction targets..." ) to justify the constant monitoring of speed.
Whether it be by fixed cameras at every access point, or by GPS, they'll be able to use the excuse of constant monitoring of speed ("If you don't break the law, you have nothing to worry about..."
) to justify road charging, and to use the excuse of road charging ("If we're going to meet our carbon reduction targets..." ) to justify the constant monitoring of speed.AJI said:
In modern socialist britain whereby everyone must follow strict rules and ones ability to think and act for themselves is no longer an approved government policy......how long before every road has SPECS cameras on it?
Never if my trusty disk cutter has a word with the cameras.flemke said:
Unless I missed it, there is no mention in this thread of the other Labour goal - universal road charging.
The Galileo satellite system is up there already, and is an EU wide project of control freakery. Income from road charging was built into its costing from day one.I've spoken to many French, German and Dutch bods about this. Not one of them had even heard of it.
JamesM said:
AJI said:
In modern socialist britain whereby everyone must follow strict rules and ones ability to think and act for themselves is no longer an approved government policy......how long before every road has SPECS cameras on it?
Never if my trusty disk cutter has a word with the cameras.Everyone slips over the limit, if they did introduce GPS tracking then I am sure the car companies would not be far behind with automatic speed restrictions built into the car. I.E. It "knows" the limit and will not allow the driver to go faster.
Of course...this then means no little bit of fun down that country lane....
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