Smart traffic lights rigged to trap drivers - UK Approved

[mr.ed]

Nice story found here

http://tinyurl.com/ageqr7

It was posted on BBC but link is down.

Another story is here

http://tinyurl.com/afc8ad

...Stefano Arrighetti, 45, an engineering graduate from Genoa, created the “T-Redspeed” system, a configuration of three cameras designed to assess the three-dimensional placement of vehicles passing a red light and store their number plates on a connected computer system.

But now it is alleged that the systems were fixed – with the connivance of their inventor – so that instead of staying on amber for the regulation five or six seconds, the lights changed to red in half that time...

It appears the same system, at

http://tinyurl.com/dzqbu2

is "UK Home Office approved".