No Escape From the Camera That Sees Everything ; Intelligent Trap to Catch Thousands of Drivers by Tracking Them

Evening Standard - London › April 07, 2005

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A NEW "intelligent" speed trap is set to catch thousands of drivers in London. Groups of cameras will track cars over a wide area - such as a housing estate - instead of "flashing" them at just one spot.

Designers say it will be impossible for drivers to outwit them by slamming on their brakes as the cameras record each car's number plate and "talk" to each other via radiowave technology. Computers then calculate how fast the vehicle was travelling between each point. If a driver is found to have been speeding they will be fined Pounds 60. Road safety campaigners today hailed the new system that will rigidly enforce speed limits in 20mph zones.

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No Escape From the Camera That Sees Everything ; Intelligent Trap to Catch Thousands of Drivers by Tracking Them

But motoring groups said it would be powerless against the rising numbe...

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