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| New Specs3 speed cameras you cannot fool |
| Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 13:20 by Mark Benson |
In a move which will highlight the fact that Big Brother is watching it has been revealed that the UK (already the country with the most CCTV and roadside cameras per person in the world) is on the verge of releasing the ultimate speed camera known as Specs3.
For those who regularly travel the motorways you will no doubt have come across small camera networks which work out you average speed over a distance and then penalise you by post. At the moment these cameras are only installed where road works are on going and only work over a short distance. But Specs3 will change all of this by introducing networks of up to 50 cameras (at a cost of £300,000 per network) which will be able to calculate your average speed over areas as long as 15 miles.
This means that rather than an on the spot speed check, or a small monitoring zone such as that with road works at the minute, these new cameras will be able to work together over long distances to calculate how long it should have taken you at the legal limit and how long it has actually taken you to get from A to B. While these new cameras are being launched in the name of road safety, at £300,000 a cluster of 50 it will ultimately be the speeding drivers who pay, with road safety coming a poor second. |
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| Given that there is NO evidence that such a scheme will provide a net road safety benefit, but plenty of evidence that it will generate a lot of revenue, this is a criminal step which benefits camera manufacturers and the Treasury. |
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