Fatman

Why not just take your detector apart and mount it behind the dash? Not even a cash-craving Policeman is going to disassemble your car to find what circuitry you have behind the dash! Who would notice an extra LED or two on the dashboard? The sensors could be rewired to the extremeties of the car if you don't get enough signal to the bulkhead area.

carl

I think what's being referred to is a system that uses GPS to triangulate its position, then transmits that position over some sort of air interface (e.g. GPRS, 3G, etc.) That's how location systems on buses, taxis, etc. work.

Jaybird-UK

Time to take the bell 550 apart and stealth install it

Dracoro

I assume you are joking.

hedgehog

As usual the following report is a bit "mixed up" as it suggests that GPS will be used for the road tolls while the current aim is actually to use the number plate tags for this. However, note that it says that £16 billion will be raised, we already pay nearly £40 billion and only a third of it goes back into this to benefit the motorist. The chap who wrote the report estimates that a driver doing 10,000 miles per year will pay an extra £30 per month while a big mileage (who is he kidding? Oh yeah, his cycle riding mates.) driver doing 20,000 miles per year will pay an extra £100 per month. On this scale I'd guess that a driver doing 40,000 miles per year will be £300 worse off per month.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3903347.stm

It is also interesting to note that the report says that this shouldn't be used as an excuse to build more roads as they generate more traffic. This is a hint that none of the extra £16 billion, and motorists already pay nearly £40 billion, will go back into road development.

They never say don't build more hospitals because it causes more patients, nor do you ever hear them say don't build more schools as it causes more children.

RB5_245

Well yes, just not too far off the mark though

As Billy Connoly once said 'don't vote, it just encourages them'

Dave

ScoobyRuss

Soon there is going to be no point in buying a performance car your never going to be able to use its power. The Government has this way of spoiling everything. You can’t even take a cruise into the peak district without a speed camera van appearing. I don’t mind the Vans being out side schools and hospital but out in the peak there taking the p***.

Where I work there is a school next door to are offices. Where was the speed camera van on Tuesday? It was past the school so they would have caught no one driving past the school at high speed . The Van was placed on Newbold Road in Chesterfield after a sharp bend in the road after a crest so it got you as you popped over the blind bend. There suppose to be preventing accidents out side schools. I was in too minds to take a photo and send it to the local paper.

hedgehog

As I have pointed out in the past there is no such thing as a "suitable" place to have a speed camera. In truth the places you might initially consider suitable are precisely the spots where you don't want a camera.

Research has shown than the average motorist approaching and crossing a junction with a speed camera will spend 5 of the 8 seconds it takes looking at the speedo.

Do we really want people driving past schools while peering about inside their cars?

Perhaps this explains why accidents have increased at 743 camera sites. Speed doesn't kill, cameras kill and there is no right place for them. In 2003 the fatal accident rate rose by 1.3% and this is the first ever rise in this figure in UK motoring history. In the 50 years before cameras this figure fell by between 5% and 7% every single year. Since the arrival of cameras the fall has reduced each year and last year, for the first time, there was a rise.