Coming to a road near you (in Europe)

[c1ue]

Re: Coming to a road near you (in Europe)

You won't have to phone for it C1ue...it'll come to you automatically either via your smartphone or the onboard navigation system.

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No matter how hard the authorities try to impose and intrude, human ingenuity seems to have no bounds in finding ways around "the system"... :-)

I agree with your statement.

Of course, as one who is now in that business, it won't be free

[ThePythonicCow]

Re: Coming to a road near you (in Europe)

Of course, as one who is now in that business, it won't be free

Or ... if it is free, you won't be in that business anymore

[unlucky]

Re: Coming to a road near you (in Europe)

And are they in 3D?

Apparently the camera can't tell whether you're wearing a seat belt unless you have large breasts. Also, it only recognizes Aryan faces.

The Greeks were working on extending the software to handle Mediterranean physiognomy, but the project ran out of funds

[c1ue]

Re: Coming to a road near you (in Europe)

Or ... if it is free, you won't be in that business anymore

I guarantee you most, if not all, the 'free' services on the mobile phones will either die out or become 'not free' in 3 years or less.

Much like the Y2K era of internet shopping is now a fond, but distant memory.

[GRG55]

Re: Coming to a road near you (in Europe)

The Irish Times - Saturday, November 13, 2010
Privatised speed check vans go live on Monday


A NETWORK of privatised mobile speed enforcement cameras is to begin operating from Monday.

A limited number of the cameras will be used over the coming months but they are all expected to be operating by February.

Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy and Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern signed a five-year €65 million contract with the GoSafe consortium to provide the service last November.

It was agreed that 45 mobile cameras would provide more than 6,000 hours of speed checks per month across the State. It is the first time that a key element of day-to-day policing has been outsourced from the Garda.

The new cameras, to be housed in clearly marked vans, will periodically monitor some 600 areas, more than 60 of which are in Dublin, identified as regular sites for speed-related traffic collisions.

It is intended the cameras will perform speed checks on the various stretches at times when crashes have occurred in the past.

A list of the areas that will be monitored by the cameras is on the Garda website, www.garda.ie. Such was the level of public interest in the locations that the website crashed a number of times yesterday...

A transport source estimated some 11 million cars would be monitored by the cameras annually.

The consortium is being paid a flat fee for the service. There is no provision for commissions or bonuses related to how many motorists are caught speeding...