Pomgolia To Get a Traffic-Tracking System

[I-K]

Scary shit...

...cameras plugged into OCR software to read the plates of all passing vehicles, with all movements stored for two years. Scheduled to go live on UK's motorways next April.

How long do you figure we've got?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/15 ... _database/

[Rossi]

That shit has been installed for over 5 years in Nottingham U.K.
It can also track your speed over distance probably why they're getting rid of the speed cameras

[MadFab]

have you people never wondered what the skeletal looking gantry's over the brisbane-sydney coast road are for ?

wake up guys ........it's already here !

fab

[aardvark]

have you people never wondered what the skeletal looking gantry's over the brisbane-sydney coast road are for ?

Having not seen them I have no idea what you are talking about, but I take it you are referring to the Safe-T cams?

[ohno102go]

Guys.. Stralia has a different tactic... its called a fugin ETAG. They close the roads around the projects to "funnel" traffic into them. Won't be long before you can't go anywhere widout one. Why go to the expense of branding every human at cost to the guvner when you can get the suckers to pay for the priveledge every month.
With Sydney gone mad with Infrastructure projects and allot of cashed up consortiums looking for the next "big thing" as our M7 and Sydney Tunnel finish construction and need to find work for employees, i can't wait to see the next proposal.The guvner has only just closed the option to build another freeway over the mountains that would have consumed the legendary Bells Line of Road..!! GASP!!! Of course it was to be built by a private company consortium for the rights to collect tolls for the next 20 years... They dropped the idea when they discovered the price for a one way toll was the princely sum of $125...
Regards
ETAG No 123645

[Gosling1]

have you people never wondered what the skeletal looking gantry's over the brisbane-sydney coast road are for ?

Having not seen them I have no idea what you are talking about, but I take it you are referring to the Safe-T cams?

Safe-T-Cams indeed.

These are for tracking Trucks people, not cars. Make sure thay are keeping to their already-designated schedule........

The UK have a far worse traffic problem than anything we have, and I do not think that we will see the same issues here with tracking traffic - FFS, they charge you just to drive into the CBD of London, its not *quite* that bad in Sincity or Melb yet, one day this will probably happen, but tracking you down the Hume ?? or around the 'burbs ???? WTF Not in our lifetimes.......

[aardvark]

Safe-T-Cams indeed.

These are for tracking Trucks people, not cars. Make sure thay are keeping to their already-designated schedule........

Yeah, they make sure the truckies aren't driving longer hours than they are supposed to...

I guess if you were a conspiracy theorist you might believe that the government are spying on the rest of us.

[ohno102go]

sorry guys.. gotta disagree... Safety Cam has always been for trucks traditionally however theres a lovely new system undergoing testing down the snowy mountains as we speak. Plate recognition technology for cars as well and a second camera 30kms down the track for speed averaging...

[Gosling1]

Conspiracy theorists indeed - actually that article is quite interesting, clearly the poms have a severe case of the shits with unregistered ( and more importantly for them, untaxed vehicles), and all the bollocks about keeping criminals off the road sounds like a convenient excuse to remove the old 'Gatso' speed cameras, and replace with these new Orwellian intrusions into our *private* lives......

what got me worried was the references to all these charges for keeping a vehicle OFF the road !!!!!!!! FFS, if you aren't using the road, WTF are they charging you for ????? its a bloody joke really.......and a very sad one at that , for our beloved Pomgolian cousins

interesting article indeed - But I think the best one was the Swiss bloke who took to a Gatso with an axe ??? Well Done That Man !

[ohno102go]

anyone see the front page of Sydney morning Herald today... guess what guys... The Good ole RTA has just confirmed that the HYMOD (Hybrid Modular Processor System has been installed at all Safe T Cam sites allowing it to process up to 57,600 cars per lane per day.
The RTA have already been monitoring cars point to point in Northern NSW and hopes to have the system running nationwide for cars by next year.
Can anyone spell BIG BROTHER!

[chalkbored]

In the ACT we already have a roadside system that can recognise a number plate, and bring up all rego details etc, in time for them to pull you over if you're rego's out, warrants etc.

[mike-s]

sounds like i should "borrow" my mates bb gun take a fistfull of solid slugs & go "wandering" for a bit.

[Gosling1]

In the ACT we already have a roadside system that can recognise a number plate, and bring up all rego details etc, in time for them to pull you over if you're rego's out, warrants etc.

WTF ?????? When did this come in ?? the radar vans are operated by a private operator, contracted to Urban Services, and they are not able to 'book' you at all , as they do not have any powers under the Motor Traffic Act ( as do the local plods ? )

Or is this some flash new system the bronze are now using,..

Looking for answers ( not that i ever ride unregoe'd bikes.......)

[chalkbored]

They were doing testing on it 2-3 years ago, and they had plod attached to them.

Far as I know the system is, or is soon to become, active.

I think they did the testing along William Hovell, which is a 90 zone

[MickLC]

They were doing testing on it 2-3 years ago, and they had plod attached to them.

Far as I know the system is, or is soon to become, active.

I think they did the testing along William Hovell, which is a 90 zone

I'll bet they get a few though