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Those of you with AOL may have seen this story if not here's the link (and the words before the link disappears). If you live in Cornwall or Southwark - beware!

http://uk.autoblog.com/2010/04/20/smile ... sat-cam%2F

"You might think you're pretty sussed when it comes to your local speed cameras but unless you're dialled into NASA things might just start getting a little trickier.

New hi-tech camera devices that are linked to each other and draw on satellite technology to track average speed over long distance have been secretly trialled in the UK.

Known as SpeedSpike, the cameras combine number plate recognition with global positioning systems and can monitor thousands of vehicles at the same time.

Cameras can 'talk' to each other if a vehicle appears to have travelled too far in a particular amount of time. The average speed system is already a familiar sight on motorways these days and it's believed that transport bosses want to adapt it for non-motorway usage.

Two futher trials are currently in place - drivers in Southwark and on the A374 in Cornwall be warned - and came under fire when their operation and the hitherto secret trials were revealed in a Parliamentary report .

Local Cornwall MP Geoffrey Cox was not impressed and questioned the amount of surveillance the UK is subjected to: "We will get to a point where it becomes routine and it should never be a matter of routine that the state spies on its citizens."

And in case you were wondering, UK drivers have been hit with around 16 million drving tickets since 1997, raising nearly £1billion. Nice work if you can get it."

might as well hand my licence in now

was on about this a while back over a pint - the fact that it won't be long before tax discs are replaced with sim cards that you have to pay a subscription for, that would be traceable by satellite / gps, probably offering optional extras like mapping, phone services and anti-thet tracking, probably operated by private companies but obviously with plod having access to them.

reckon it will be compulsory soon to have these fitted to all vehicles.
you can imagine it would almost end vehicle crime and things like murders and robberies involving cars / bikes would be a nono if you want to get off with it.

uk is far ahead of the world in camera technology & use, especially with our plate and face recognition stuff.
crouton all we can do about it tbh.

And don't forget the little black box the goverment wants fitted into all cars.
Not only will it act as a tracker and congestion charge recognition tool they are also claiming they can connect it to the ECU so your car will slow automatically and respond to the speed limet signs or a signal from a police car to stop.

Pete.l

feck em! they can do wot they like, some one will always find a way round it

Ride like an butt for five minutes- stop for five minutes.

Repeat until you run out of fuel.







oh, you have already, it's a Storm....

Is it just this country that seems to have the whole life and soul legislated out of it??

I know the French don't allow over 100bhp bikes, so thats a crap country too, as if there wasn't another load of reasons why it's crap!!

Labour might not mention this in their election campaign,
Blair to Brown, 'I know lets let ever fecker from other countries in to our little island, lose track of them all and any illegal ones that come, then fine the f*ck out of all the Brits left behind that use our congested roads!!!!!!' Gordon over to you, good luck at the election, and remember you told me to say eveything whilst I was PM!

Best i stop drinking cider, obviously makes me aggressive, and political!! - scary.

anyone seen todays mcn with the cat&fiddle farce???
what a joke!
tip - don't take the short cut lol