http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/ Engadget Comments for U.K. uses license plate scanners to crack down on illegal drivers http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/
Deets indeed... dates?]]>Jun 21st 2006 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/Jun 22nd 2006 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/
Neal Saferstein]]>Jun 22nd 2006 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/
I believe "deets" is the hip way to say details. Though I am not hip; I only inferred this though an exposer to hip lingo on television.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.cctv-information.co.uk/constant3/anpr.html

We've had the Vans across the UK for at least a year.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 2:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/Jun 22nd 2006 3:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/
Stunning stupidity from NCP.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/
I dunno, we'd have to park in a NCP cap park for at least say... 2 hours for them to make £80 out of us.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 3:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/
Er, these people don't pay the tax, they most likely don't have insurance either (one of the main motives for catching them) so you can bet your bottom dollar they are not going to pay for parking.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/
"Mr Johnson, you have 7 days to pick up your car" "Mr Johnson, you have 3 days to pick up your car" "Mr Johnson, your car will be crushed in 1 day if you do not pick it up" "Mr Johnson, you have 7 days to pick up your cube"]]>Jun 22nd 2006 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/Jun 22nd 2006 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/
Imagine, a car is stolen, a normal everyday roadside camera reads and identifies the plate, the computer alerts the police and gives them a GPS coordinate of it's location. Stolen cars and police chases will become rare and few & far between.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 4:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/Jun 22nd 2006 5:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/Jun 22nd 2006 7:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/
More money for NCP though, so of course it's understandable, and welcome, I can't stand these illegal drivers, they have no tax, insurance, mot and thus their vehicles are a piece of crap, dangerous machines that are often involved in crime. Get them off the roads!

I agree with them being crushed as well, as often the vehicles are crappy old things and shouldn't be on the roads anyhow from a saftey perspective.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/Jun 22nd 2006 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/Jun 22nd 2006 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/
They have a similar system in northern Virginia to catch people haven't paid vehicle property tax, but they sell the cars rather than crush them (and they take your licence plates rather than clamping).]]>Jun 22nd 2006 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/Jun 22nd 2006 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/
"Sweet jesus, let's hope you don't go on vacation for 2 weeks after forgetting to pay your car tax!"
Then don't forget.]]>Jun 24th 2006 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/21/u-k-uses-license-plate-scanners-to-crack-down-on-illegal-driver/
I've never been an NCP customer (well, maybe once) so why should they store any information about me... Maybe using the cameras at the entrances/exits to their car parks for this purpose would be reasonably acceptable, but no-one other than the police or dvla should have ANPR equipped vehicles out there monitoring other road users.

This is all we need - another commercial vigilante - what's it got to do with NCP!?!]]>Jun 26th 2006 7:21PM