Steve Wood wrote:
> Bru wrote:
>>>> ANPR will sort out those.
>>>
>>> Yer wot?
>>>
>> Automatic Number Plate Recognition
>>
>> Camera gets a shot of a number plate, computer recognises the number
>> (9 times out of 10), number is checked against the PNC (oops,
>> another TLA ... damn, three letter acronym ... er, PNC = Police
>> National Computer), and any "hits" are alerted to the operator
>>
>> Hits include no tax, no insurance and no MOT. They also could be
>> unpaid parking tickets, an outstanding warrant against a known user
>> of the vehicle etc.
>
> Wonderful system - I once took a phone call from the police because my
> car had been reported abandoned for a few days by a canal bridge in
> the middle of nowhere... had to explain that it wasn't abandoned but
> parked outside my home! A week or so later I was stopped on an ANPR
> check because my car was allegedly showing as stolen on the PNC. Took
> a good while for me to convince them that there was nothing to worry
> about.
>
> Steve
> NB Bream
Linda's Focus was caught going round the M50 in Dublin, the problem was it
was in the car park at the Town Hall at the time! ==8^{o}
I eventually got the M50 E-Toll company to refund the charge to my
account...the problem was, by the time they got round to it Sterling had
fallen...so it was then another couple of weeks of e-mails untill they
refunded the full difference. Since this occasion we have gone to Ireland
via Dun Laoghaire, which avoids the toll catching cameras, which are above
our turn off onto the N4 / M4.
--
Neil Arlidge
NB Earnest - return being planned
TNC http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
