camera checks your insurance, tax and even whether you are tailgating or not wearing a seatbelt

[The Straight Story]

Scariest speed camera of all... It checks your insurance, tax and even whether you are tailgating or not wearing a seatbelt

Even the most law-abiding driver might feel a shiver down the spine when spotting this speed camera at the roadside.

For as well as detecting speeding, it is packed with gizmos that check number plates to make sure insurance and tax are up to date.

It also measures the distance between vehicles to spot tailgating and takes pictures of the inside of the car – to make sure you are wearing a seat belt.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1326035/Speed-camera-checks-insurance-tax-wearing-seatbelt.html#ixzz14KOdOKTY

[glowing]

1. And the bankers still get their bonuses.

And people still don't have jobs... Yet worry over a seatbelt and insurance. This country is so f'd up.

[formercia]

2. Next is a sniffer to see if you're smoking and driving.

Also works on bicycle seats.

[dipsydoodle]

6. Beat me to it

with the bicycle seat bit. :rofl:

[DavidDvorkin]

3. I like the tailgating part.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Have you got sequential cameras in the USA ?

Two or more cameras used to auto issue speeding tickets. Started in France years ago.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. They did?

I had no clue. How do people react to them? Are they run by government or private companies?
do they get vandalized?

[dipsydoodle]

9. You'd have a hard job

vandalising a camera mounted on a gantry across the full width of a French or UK motorway. Their use in France first became apparent when motorists arriving at toll booths received tickets for getting there too soon after the previous one. As far as I'm aware they're used here mainly during major road works where lower speed limits are in force and also when normal max speed is reduced to help traffic flow - stops the concertina effect.

:hi:

[snot]

5. K&R'd

[Donnachaidh]

8. I *wish* they'd have cameras to find the tailgaters in my area

Georgia drivers are the worst at that. They must think that driving up fast on someone and then hanging 3 inches from their bumper will make them GO faster. Of course it doesn't - it just causes lots of accidents because these pinheads think they are driving bumpercars instead of vehicles.

[arikara]

13. My solution for tailgaters works 90% of the time

Use your window washers for a few seconds and they drop back. Then if they creep up again, wash your windows again. It usually only takes once or twice for them to get the message. It works nearly every time unless raining out.

[Donnachaidh]

14. okay - I'm lost. What is using the washers doing? What message is it sending?

I'm sick of the harrowing drives to get DH to work in the early AM, having some nutbag zoom up to my bumper. I'm no slouch for speed, but there's always one who thinks hyperdrive is the way to go on slick highways.

[ManiacJoe]

16. The spray coming off your windshield lands on theirs.

[Donnachaidh]

17. AHHHHHH!!!

:smacks head:

Thick as a brick sometimes LOL! Not sure if it will work, but will give it a try. Thanks!

[grasswire]

10. I'm surprised it doesn't check for warrants too.

That must be next.

[grasswire]

12. And when are they going to start scanning bus riders?

Might be some scofflaws there!

And those who rent cars? Must be some way to learn their life history.

[cbdo2007]

11. Well....maybe they'll catch some of those kids running around without their seatbelts on.

I hate driving down the highway and seeing little kids up running around in the car/van out of their seatbelt.

[felix_numinous]

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