The end of speeding in the UK?

Unluckyalf · 17 Feb 2006 at 21:44

Im not sure if this has been covered in the forums already yet, but i bought a car magazine while i was in South Africa last week and there was an editorial article about Automatic Number Plate Recognition in the UK in it. I know currently the system works around the Birmingham area (M42,M5 and M6) that has been used in crime reduction.
However, the article talks about a leaked strategy document suggesting that by April next year the ANPR system would be capable of monitoring every 400m of the UK roads and that this will largely eliminate speeding.
I can see how the system works to collect infomation about untaxed and unisured drivers via the numberplate, but i really cannot see it being accurate enough to measure speed.
Has anyone else heard plans to extend the ANPR system like this?

[TW]Fox · 17 Feb 2006 at 21:45

This is not what ANPR is for. Do not worry.

Unluckyalf · 17 Feb 2006 at 21:49

Im not too fussed about it to be honest as i cant see it working, even if it did i doubt they woudl be able to implement it. Anyhow, this time next year i hope to be living in Darwin in Aus and roads out of town dont have speed limits

Lopéz · 17 Feb 2006 at 21:49

And I can still do 100mph on a single lane backroad, unless they want to install some lovely expensive ANPR cameras all over the network of yellows that spreads over Wales like a rash.

minidan · 17 Feb 2006 at 23:37

exactly my thoughts i dont open the car up until the bck roads anyway so i dont care where they put what type of cameras up

v0n · 18 Feb 2006 at 00:02

That's how SPECS work. It's already in use in many parts of London. It's also cheaper in long run than GATSOs because it doesn't have to be realoaded or serviced few times a week. Vector maps are already available, most GPS stuff uses those kind of calculations. I really wouldn't be surprised if in the next year or so there was nation wide system ready - cameras in Manchester see you leaving town, few hours later cameras in London see you entering, time of arrival - time of departure < lowest possible route x legal speed = automatic fine...

zain · 18 Feb 2006 at 00:55

Grr just about money -.- My usual routes now have speed cameras, was shocked lol

Zip · 18 Feb 2006 at 01:02

Unluckyalf said:
Im not too fussed about it to be honest as i cant see it working, even if it did i doubt they woudl be able to implement it. Anyhow, this time next year i hope to be living in Darwin in Aus and roads out of town dont have speed limits

You lucky git

I cant wait to take a car out that way.
Straights as far as the eye can see

Just watch out for the kangaroos, they can do a lot of damage to a car

russ9898 · 18 Feb 2006 at 01:06

v0n said:
cameras in Manchester see you leaving town, few hours later cameras in London see you entering, time of arrival - time of departure < lowest possible route x legal speed = automatic fine...

make sure you stop of at plenty of service stations on the way

lol

rG-tom · 18 Feb 2006 at 02:00

Zip said:
You lucky git
I cant wait to take a car out that way.
Straights as far as the eye can see
Just watch out for the kangaroos, they can do a lot of damage to a car

straights as far as the eye can see? sounds boring to me. rather have a limit and some twisties than being able to cruise on a straight at 150 all day

Tom.

Zip · 18 Feb 2006 at 02:24

rG-tom said:
straights as far as the eye can see? sounds boring to me. rather have a limit and some twisties than being able to cruise on a straight at 150 all day

Tom.

There are places with really long straights but then you'll find places where you find it hard to get above 80kms due to all the corners in this country

You also see a lot pre released or test cars of cars around the roads with no speed limets down here aswell.

I still want ot go to germany to drive on the autobahn though

Elementalism · 18 Feb 2006 at 02:32

If you don't speed, there's no problem.

Now I know who the people are, who tailgate me in the left hand lane on the M25 :rolleyes:

penski · 18 Feb 2006 at 07:10

Zip said:
There are places with really long straights but then you'll find places where you find it hard to get above 80kms due to all the corners in this country

You also see a lot pre released or test cars of cars around the roads with no speed limets down here aswell.

I still want ot go to germany to drive on the autobahn though

There's not much Autobahn left.

*n

Dr Who · 18 Feb 2006 at 08:14

ANPR is used on the blue cameras that cover all of the uk road networks as traffic monitors...

At the moment they only use the middle 4-6 numbers to calculate average road speeds, but they could easily be adapted to be used as speed cameras...

Thankfully, they refuse to allow the govt the rights to use them for that purpose...

:eek:

Zip · 18 Feb 2006 at 08:19

penski said:
There's not much Autobahn left.

*n

Why not? Whats happend to it? They arnt planning on removing the whole thing are they?

Fallen Hero · 18 Feb 2006 at 16:26

v0n said:
That's how SPECS work. It's already in use in many parts of London. It's also cheaper in long run than GATSOs because it doesn't have to be realoaded or serviced few times a week. Vector maps are already available, most GPS stuff uses those kind of calculations. I really wouldn't be surprised if in the next year or so there was nation wide system ready - cameras in Manchester see you leaving town, few hours later cameras in London see you entering, time of arrival - time of departure < lowest possible route x legal speed = automatic fine...

Maybe there will be an added bonus that they can plan your route for you as well, letting you know what time you will also get from A to B