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> Most interestingly are the justifications for these things. Widespread ANPR means it's easy to find people who are driving their cars without MOT, VED and ins
by rjsw 8y ago
> Most interestingly are the justifications for these things. Widespread ANPR means it's easy to find people who are driving their cars without MOT, VED and insurance.
And doesn't even work, people use fake number plates.
- J-dawg 8y agoThis is always the problem with this stuff (and perhaps is even by design). They always justify it by mentioning terrorists etc, but it's really used to keep normal, mostly "law-abiding" people in line. Real "bad guys" will always find a way around it.
- tjoff 8y agoHow can it not be trivial to detect that in most cases? Must match make model and color with the number plate, also must make sure that the real number plate isn't used ~simultaneously somewhere distant.
- pixl97 8y ago>tjoff posts on FaceBook: wow, this week vacation in Bahama is great! takes plate from car
- Already__Taken 8y ago"match make model" sounds very difficult automatically from some traffic camera. "plate isn't used ~simultaneously somewhere" even if it is, which one is legit? And do what, dispatch the police immediately to both plates? It's also a question of not be caught _for how long_
- ben_w 8y agoI read an article a while ago talking about this exact thing. Apparently the answer is yes, the UK police do notice if a number plate makes an impossible journey, and while they didn’t claim in the article that they automatically verify make and model, they do have the ability and motivation to send a police car after both vehicles in such cases. Of course the story would be slightly more believable if not for the fact that shortly after I read it, the police sent me a speeding ticket for a car which I had sold nine months earlier.
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