Posted on 03/17/2012 3:34:48 PM PDT by Dallas59
Cameras at petrol stations will automatically stop uninsured or untaxed vehicles from being filled with fuel, under new government plans.
Downing Street officials hope the hi-tech system will crack down on the 1.4million motorists who drive without insurance.
Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras are already fitted in thousands of petrol station forecourts.
Drivers can only fill their cars with fuel once the camera has captured and logged the vehicle’s number plate.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Government has become a protection racket
put (UK) up when a title like this is stated...
Really growing tired of clicking into threads and after the fact find out it aint even our country...
put (UK) up when a title like this is stated...
Really growing tired of clicking into threads and after the fact find out it aint even our country...
“Mirror UK”, “petrol”, etc. Take a hint.
One owner insures, fills tank, transfers fuel to non-insured vehicles.
Does it as freebie (cost of the fuel) or nominal charge (add $0.10 per gallon).
hint this... put UK or France in the dang title. that was a rule a while ago and for some reason, the powers that be here severly laxed it.
I’m with you. I am tired also of seeing “PA” in titles an finding out it is about the stupid Palestinian Authority and not Pennsylvania.
” fills tank, transfers fuel to non-insured vehicles.
Does it as freebie (cost of the fuel) or nominal charge (add $0.10 per gallon “
That kinda mirrors my thought about a new ‘cottage industry’ involving back seats replaced by tankage and back alley cash sales (Even in Nanny-Britain, I’ll bet that there are plenty of nice places hidden away from CCTV)
Well, I hate to agree with them a little, but if you’re uninsured, you SHOULDN’T be driving! I don’t want to pay hospitalization for uninsured motorists.
“Well, I hate to agree with them a little, but if you’re uninsured, you SHOULDN’T be driving! I don’t want to pay hospitalization for uninsured motorists.”
So to prevent that you are OK with the Government recording your whereabouts every time you buy gasoline?
What the hell is wrong with people?
Let’s see, how to get around this? Well, the petrol trucks are GPSd (easily hackable) so they can’t pull over to un-topoff their load by 5%.
How would you hack this law?
We couldn’t do this in the U.S. because the Justice Department would declare it racist.
Better would be to require a DNA sample with your insurance application or tax payment and have DNA machines everywhere you purchase or do anything... Of course they’d have to up the dole a little so people could buy extra food to grow back their parts that are sampled, but that should be a very minor adjustment.
It’s like they think George Orwell wrote a guide or manual.
No gas for uninsured vehicles...Do that in LA (Los Angelus) or Chicago and you would have abandoned junks all over the city
If they used it in Calif., the traffic in L.A. would be cut in half.
Welcome to the Total Surveillance State (tm). Comply or die.
We have cop cars that record your whereabouts whenever you pass behind them. They take a picture of your marker plate and run your information through a database to make sure you aren’t breaking the law. The cops say they need this system since the state stopped using stickers to show a car is registered. The police want to keep all the information they collect for an indefinite amount of time. Connecticut should be called the over taxed police state.
It’s incredible watching a culture slowly evolve into a totalitarian state. Little time fixes to little tiny problems moving glacially towards a Soviet-style state, without even the need of KGB-style informants or terror, at least in the traditional sense. Once the cameras are installed and uninsured drivers are caught - all for the public good - there will be, naturally, a desire by those using the cameras to see what else this tool can do.
God help them. They’re a lot further down this road than we are.
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