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The original SPECS cameras were found to be quite successful. Between 2000 and 2005, a single camera in Nottinghamshire generated 76,000 tickets worth £4.2 million So success is People speeding!

Or mistakes could be made in manufacture of your new number plates.

"the cause of the accident is still to be determined."

The UK Commission for Integrated Transport last year proposed a nationwide blanket of speed cameras as a means of fighting global warming. After a series of trials, the Home Office is now set to make this a reality by approving early next year the SPECS3 "distance over time speed measuring device" that will make it impossible to drive on any primary road in Britain without being tracked and subjected to an instant fine for exceeding the posted speed limit. "With respect to technology, we are in a period of explosive evolution in traffic control technology," a commission report entitled Transport and Climate Change explained. "The Highways Agency already uses several technologies which are either intended to manage speed, or lend themselves to that purpose by monitoring speed and sending drivers messages about their behavior.... Reducing climate impacts of the motorway network should be a major consideration in the development of motorway control and communications technology." The commission estimated that new SPECS3 cameras could monitor every driver on 31,136 miles of principal rural and urban roads at a cost of £443,687,656 (US $769,693,415). While the initial investment appears substantial, the commission noted that "enforcing the 70 MPH limit using SPECS would pay for itself within around two years." (View sample deployment map.) The original SPECS systems, first approved in 1999, photographed vehicles when they entered a road, communicating the time of entry via a fiber optic link to a second camera positioned, say, two miles distant. After the second camera had identified the passing vehicle, the amount of time it took the car to pass between the two points was converted into an average speed. The system's limitations included an inability to ticket cars that changed lanes in between camera locations and a purchase price of £800,000 (US $1.4 million) to deploy over a distance of just a mile and a quarter. SPECS3 solves those limitations. It uses an ISDN connection to transmit data between any two cameras in the entire network, as well as the police headquarters, without the need for the expensive dedicated connection. This configuration slashes deployment cost over the same distance to just £67,000 (US $116,000). The system can also track drivers not only as they change lanes, but as they switch between different roads and highways. Pilot projects are already underway in Camden, Surrey and Northern Ireland where road trials began in April. Once established nationwide, records on all vehicle movements will be stored for five years in a central government Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) server, allowing police to keep tabs on criminals and political opponents. Work on the data center in north London began in 2005 and officials expect real-time, nationwide tracking capability to be available by January. The original SPECS cameras were found to be quite successful. Between 2000 and 2005, a single camera in Nottinghamshire generated 76,000 tickets worth £4.2 million (US $7.2 million). London's entire SPECS network generated as many citations in just three weeks. London camera officials did admit, however, that 5600 tickets were sent to motorists who were completely innocent. But if it's for global warming, surely 'success' would be no fines, not lots of them? Does this mean if you drive a small, economical car your fine is lower? Or you are allowed to go faster? I think the payback period must be based on fines. If it is 2 years then it points strongly to a financial motive not an environmental one. What if it actually works - is the loss of petrol tax revenue taken into account? Hopefully the bank bail out will leave them short of funds to play big brother in this intrusive way.

Should pretty much reduce the roads to a standard not dissimilar to our banking system,or come to think of it,pretty much everything else this goverment have meddled with,which doesnt leave much. Oh and of course under the umbrella of saving the planet. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7661013.stm

Jackson, 37, is accused of leaving an orange envelope containing two documents prepared for the Joint Intelligence Committee on the train. Ha ha who believes this crap?In an orange envolope,yeh right.Did it have TOP SECRET written on it too? You couldnt make it up could you?But they do!!!

Cigar smokes best

That wasnt a ticket i got,unfortunatly im a 'billy no ticket'. That is someone elses layout of how they have found events to date. One word says it all.....IGNORE!!!!

go to o2 site you can do it from there or alot of recent phones have a 'get settings' icon

Will that hold lipstick?

Good for you,Miserable billy no mates arnt they?

.........Baaaa

yeh then there wouldnt be so many over paid coerced scientists spouting pc crap that some sheep people take as gospel because they read it

is your phone set up right?

Ive not got recent knowledge but thats the way it was.You need to buy a specific card to do the job or get a contract sim. Someone else may have more recent knowledge.

Was more of a country thing not city.The place is going down the plug hole and no one seems to give a dam. The size of their tv seems to be the only importance.

Forum bordness???

just aswell it isnt much. I smell a rat.

Not at all,but im sure many wise ones have had a better one.

Who writes this crap?And whats worse sheeppeople believe it.

But great fun blowing it in their face

Anyone who took advantage of high property prices ,sold up and moved out of this hole run by morons.

I was right then? sd card is what you need. Less than a tenner for a 2 gig in morrisons last time i looked,although its been awhile since i did.

oh well its only 350 million

............Brillo