Great Britain: New super-cameras will mean no hiding place for drivers who smoke, eat or use a phone

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | December 28, 2007 | RAY MASSEY

[Stoat]

He said: "It is the first camera to record offences other than speeding and give an instant playback.

Coming soon to America.

Some other FR threads that may also be of interest:

UK The cameras that will catch drivers who stay too long in a parking space

Great Britain Satellites on speeders (Motorcycles' engine to be cut off via satellite - cars next)

[Reagan Man]

Big Brother, coming to a city near you.

[rightwingextremist1776]

Next they will be in the home...for the children of course.

[beaversmom]

Will they be able to see up your butt to see if you’ve wiped well too?

[inkling]

[Mr_Moonlight]

Coming soon to America.

Well, someone has to fund Socialist Big-Brother America ... why not begin with drivers and then work our way down to every tiny little behavior-vice the grubmint enforcers can think of?

/sarc off

[Duchess47]

And this is what we aspire to become? Any frontiers left in this world?

[gusopol3]

Robocop

[Cicero]

Typical of modern British law enforcement they are giving burglars and muggers a free pass, while they clamp down on “crimes” like this.

I suppose it’s easier and safer for the police to arrest someone for driving with a cell phone than it is to go after real criminals in dangerous neighborhoods.

[bubbacluck]

We WILL love Big Brother!

[commish]

All drivers in Britain should learn to drive with the middle fingers of each hand extended at all times for the cameras.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Nope, we will have to make a stand right here.I am almost getting to old for this stuff.

[org.whodat]

Using a phone when driving should be made illegal. Excluding truck drivers and state police.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Any frontiers left in this world?

None that are easily adapted for human life. So unless you're a polar bear or a coelacanth, your only option is stay where you are and become an outlaw.

It's not impossible to live outside legal restrictions, you just have to plan ahead and keep a low profile. What johnny law and uncle sham don't know won't hurt you.

[bubbacluck]

All drivers in Britain should learn to drive with the middle fingers of each hand extended at all times for the cameras.

Wouldn't that be against the law? Doesn't one have to be in complete control of the vehicle at all times? /s

[Lexington Green]

Some people read Orwell’s 1984 and took it as a warning; others used it as a blueprint. — Lexington Green

[Stoat]

Typical of modern British law enforcement they are giving burglars and muggers a free pass, while they clamp down on “crimes” like this.

I suppose it’s easier and safer for the police to arrest someone for driving with a cell phone than it is to go after real criminals in dangerous neighborhoods.

As the article reminds us, these cameras are like having a money printing-press in a city's administration buildings and gives those who are being prevented from arresting and jailing serious offenders something to occupy their time with.

Great Britain Ministers beg judges - don't jail any more criminals! (prisons are full)

Great Britain Drivers risk two years in jail for using their mobile phones

Inside America's toughest jail (Brit paper says Sheriff Joe Arpaio's ideas would be great for U.K.)

Typical of modern British law enforcement they are giving burglars and muggers a free pass, while they clamp down on “crimes” like this.

I suppose it’s easier and safer for the police to arrest someone for driving with a cell phone than it is to go after real criminals in dangerous neighborhoods.

[C210N]

The other day I watched some guy cruise through a tollbooth fastlane apparently without a fastlane device. I presumed a camera recorded his plate.

Over the next mile or so, watched as he weaved in and out of lanes until way past me, and noticed an obscured plate. It looked like it was somehow "fogged" up, I guess to fool the cameras.

What's to prevent malicious license plate obscurations?

[sono]

Paging George Orwell ...

[Lizavetta]

Or mosques.

Don'tcha love how "tough" the police are on noncrimes and how utterly gutless they are when faced with real evil?