The banning of laser and detection equipment

[soulpatch]

Has there been any update on this? The last thing they were trying a couple of years ago was to make it part of the Road Traffic Offenders Act to "own, operate or use anything that would detect or reveal the presence of a camera".

That would even render the Geodesy and the Origin offline...

Last thing I heard they were trying to push it through, although that was a couple of years ago.

[Dazren]

It would also render my eyes illegal. Leading to only blind people being able to drive.

DAZ

[CarZee]

[quoteThat would even render the Geodesy and the Origin offline...

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No - I don't believe they possibly could pass legislation that would render Geodesy illegal..

Well, okay they could but it'd have to be explicit and utterly draconian.. what are they gonna do? Ban GPS units? Ban owing a database of speed camera locations?

The application would only migrate to Pocket PCs where it could as eaily be seen to be a Trafficmaster type jobby..

It's bollocks anyway.. as long as it's not totally plumbed in you can always dump it under your seat (or drop the cubby cover) before pulling over.. The geodesy is a passive device so there's no detecting it, unlike laser diffusers.. although again, since when could they make emitting light an offense?

[soulpatch]

We can only hope so. Although with the amount of totally f**kwitted laws that manage to appear without the publics consent, I believe anything is possible.

[hertsbiker]

How will they catch you, if the ambition is to have 100% robot cameras and 0% officers?

This is madness. It's been said before, but haven't they got better things to do?! seems not.

[granville]

soulpatch said: We can only hope so. Although with the amount of totally f**kwitted laws that manage to appear without the publics consent, I believe anything is possible.

The problem in a nutshell.

[kevinday]

Hertsbiker, Excellent point! I say ban cameras and bring back real policing, then no need for Geodesy etc.