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we already have it. Between speed cameras, red light running cameras, and EZ pass, there are plenty of opportunities for big bro to be snapping your plate. I know that EZ pass takes a frontal shot to get the driver, but they must also take a rear shot to catch the plate again. NJ has both (a real drag when you have a sports car like an RX-8!, but next door in PA they only have a rear plate. |
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Replying to: andys120 (Jun 03, 2008 10:10 am) We also have a bias towards a liberal attitude in surveillance, supposedly, and UK is signed up to the European Treaty of Human rights, which is supposed to prevent abuses of such power, but London has more camera surveillance than almost anywhere in the free world. But then we also had bombing campaigns by various lunatics from the mid seventies onwards - so I suppose we have tempered our freedoms to match. We are now moving towards road pricing, which I suspect is too much of a hot potato for the politicians to touch, and if fuel stays as expensive as it is now, here, then I suspect the roads will actually get a little quieter. The technology is effectively in place to allow that to be applied in some parts of Britain, especially London, andaround our major roads, and airports etc, already. |
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Replying to: magnette (Jun 03, 2008 9:05 am) I find it amusing that where I live, dual plates are required unless you have the old fashioned plates. The guy who parks by my fintail has a 1967 Lincoln with 1967 plates, and he only has the rear plate - perfectly legal. Yet if I did this on my modern car, some revenue enforcer would eventually read me the riot act. |
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Replying to: andys120 (Jun 03, 2008 5:01 am) |
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All violations must be witnessed by a police officer to be cited.. So, unless or until they change the law.. no red-light cameras, here.
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Replying to: kyfdx (Jun 03, 2008 11:55 am) We seem to be getting the red light cameras on a county by county basis. Morris County, where I grew up, doesn't have any. Ocean County, where I am now, has them all over. Guess it's time to move back. |
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Replying to: andys120 (Jun 03, 2008 10:10 am) Actually, I think it is already established American legal practice that there is no expectation of privacy in a public location. So it would not be illegal to use license-plate recognition here in the USA (unless there was state or local ordnances). |
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Replying to: magnette (Jun 03, 2008 12:15 pm) #2 - Reliant Kitten #3 - Ford Zodiac IV (Farnham? The only aftermarket "estate" builder that I can name off the top of my head) #4 - Ford Corsair
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Replying to: fintail (Jun 03, 2008 2:53 pm) Reliant Kitten Ford Zodiac IV - but the coachwork was by Abbot Ford Corsair - again estate by Abbot - and this one is a GT The odd one out is a JDM Nissan, one I hadn't seen here before as a grey import, called a Wingroad - I think it is a sort of fleet model, rather than one aimed at family drivers.
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