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Post by rogerman on Aug 28, 2014 7:32:40 GMT
Reading about the vehicle tax disc being done away with from Oct 1st and more ANPR cameras to be used to determine whether a vehicle is taxed or not it got me thinking as to how does the ANPR camera technology work. For those also interested there is an enlightening article on this at www.cctv-information.co.uk/i/An_Introduction_to_ANPR  |
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Post by nob on Aug 28, 2014 8:42:58 GMT
I parked the car at the airport tother week they use ANPR to open the barrier when you prepay and issue a ticket with your name on.
ANPR will also flag up un-insured cars. A double whammy for the coppers. If it gets the scrotes off the roads it cant be a bad thing, pity it cant capture mobile phone users driving cos I see a lot of that.
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Post by jal on Aug 28, 2014 9:04:30 GMT
Them that smoke while driving are equally as bad Nob although as yet it isn't deemed to be against the law.
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Post by banjo on Aug 28, 2014 12:23:55 GMT
"Them that smoke while driving are equally as bad Nob although as yet it isn't deemed to be against the law."
To which you can add adjusting your radio or tape/ cd player, or talking to another vehicle occupant or looking left while something dire transpires to your right (or in front) or even taking your hand off the wheel to change gear or turn the heating up etc etc.
I'm not advocating use of mobile 'phones whilst in control of over a ton of machinery, just saying that there are so many ways to become distracted it is frightening because each and every one may have a similar outcome. Then it becomes time to exercise that most human of traits- the blame game. Summer time and the skirts get shorter and the neck lines plunge. Oh dear!
So how do our Bobbies and other emergency workers manage then? Special training no doubt, but what sort of training is that? Then there are the "black cab" drivers in London. They have exemptions for just about everything so I shouldn't be surprised to learn that they've cracked it with microphones too, some of them on curly leads for goodness sakes. I know this because I have exemption for microphones, but if I use a mobile 'phone that's different and rightly so.
It's a jungle out there, so make sure you're all concentrating on the road ahead and not focussing upon other "scrotes" on mobile 'phones.
e&oe
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Post by nob on Aug 28, 2014 14:47:20 GMT
Funnily enough I saw a 38 tonner driver on the phone yesterday, no indicators to turn it was a guessing game.
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Post by jal on Aug 28, 2014 15:15:28 GMT
What they need is to be taken to a Road accident that has just happened where some passengers have been seriously injured and need to be cut free and let them absorb the suffering these people are being put through.
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Post by banjo on Aug 28, 2014 18:27:30 GMT
Been there, seen it done it. Head on smash! Lost a stone in about 3 days. Hopefully never again.
e&oe
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Post by duyuthinkysaurus on Aug 28, 2014 18:29:56 GMT
Been there, seen it done it. Head on smash! Lost a stone in about 3 days. Hopefully never again. e&oe Seen enough of them in my time to last me for several lifetimes. |
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Post by banjo on Aug 28, 2014 18:37:33 GMT
Because you were a policeman no doubt Dinky?
I wasn't on a 'phone. The other driver was speeding around a long slow bend. Her passenger went through the screen. The driver had been sparking up- I saw the unmolested fag all scorched at the end laying between her feet amongst all the glass. All the police were interested in was checking my call log on my 'phone. And do you know what, I got the blame for all everything because my front wheels were just over the broken white line. I was only doing about 5 mph. The b1tch even claimed against me for whiplash and lied about the passenger's seat belt.
The boys wanted to leave me in a country lane without my mobile. Cheers for that lads.
e&oe
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Post by uncleub on Aug 28, 2014 21:31:29 GMT
I parked the car at the airport tother week they use ANPR to open the barrier when you prepay and issue a ticket with your name on. ANPR will also flag up un-insured cars. A double whammy for the coppers. If it gets the scrotes off the roads it cant be a bad thing, pity it cant capture mobile phone users driving cos I see a lot of that. A couple of skanks were evicted from a house across the road last week,one of them has just left a car a few yards up the road,been there over a week now.Tax runs out at the end of August..Won't be there much longer.  www.gov.uk/report-untaxed-vehicleWhen the lad who owned the house came with the court order on the day of eviction she had a knife in her hand so police were called.Didn't even arrest her,just kept a presence till they had got their gear out and moved.Use to be a lovely house when the lads mum was alive,she died so he moved in with girlfriend and rented it.Trouble is he never kept coming to see what was going off.Looked like one of them was on the game with the amount of cars that turned up during the night. |
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Post by nob on Aug 28, 2014 21:44:34 GMT
Rent paid by benefits they should stop it and make em live in caves or work.
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Post by petersmyth1 on Aug 28, 2014 22:43:26 GMT
Them that smoke while driving are equally as bad Nob although as yet it isn't deemed to be against the law. JJ you're off your rocker if you think smoking, that has been going on in cars for years without any real complaints until the current bullshit that passive smoking kills was brought to light. Jal if you think smoking when driving is as dangerous as mobile phone texting while driving you'd best get back on your medicine before you kill someone.  |
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Post by jal on Aug 28, 2014 22:44:22 GMT
Been there, seen it done it. Head on smash! Lost a stone in about 3 days. Hopefully never again. e&oe Seen enough of them in my time to last me for several lifetimes. Hi Dinky & Steve I know you must have seen quite a few Dinky, but I wasn't talking about an accident where someone had been thrown through a windscreen, I was talking about accidents where members of the car were trapped and with limbs missing and broken steering wheel stuck in there chest and also one where a sports car had hit a lorry on a bend and the lorry had dragged both the sports car and the driver along the road with the driver hanging out the car door with his head dragging along the road ending up with his brains scattered along the road due to a gaping hole in his head, then having to untangle him from underneath the lorry before he was sent to the hospital Morgue by ambulance. These are just 2 of many I've attended over a thirty year period. |
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Post by jal on Aug 28, 2014 22:48:02 GMT
Peter they are seriously thinking of making it illegal smoking in a car(Read this after or if the ovaltine wears off)  |
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Post by banjo on Aug 29, 2014 7:28:40 GMT
There are those that advocate outlawing hands-free sets. Since that implies not having your concentration distracted by having to listen and respond, that surely must make it neccesary to gag other vehicle occupants. Even listening to the wireless must come under scrutiny. Heaven help the driver if he or she suddenly hears a strange noise in the vehicle that diverts attention even for a split second. Of course I'm being extreme here, but having experienced some of the horror at first hand, I still think that were heading down a blind alley by being too precious. 'Phones- no and speaking as an ex-smoker- fags no, but common sense has to prevail here.
In my crash, there were 3 meat wagons, 2 fire engines and 11 police vehicles. They cut the top off of the other vehicle and took the old lady away on a stretcher with a neck brace and oxygen. I thought she was going to peg. She made a head sized depression in the windscreen which didn't crumble. I spent the time before the emergency services arrived holding her hand and continually talking to her and asking her name because she was drifting in and out of consciousness. As I said, never again I hope.
e&oe
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