Re: Big Brother is watching your exhaust (in Bristol)

"Adrian" <toomany2cvs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns98EB7FB57804Aadrianachapmanfreeis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Clive George (clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

http://tinyurl.com/34w4m7

"By shining a laser beam through the exhaust path of a vehicle the
equipment measured emissions without having to stop drivers."

"Overall 65 000 vehicles were monitored and over 4000 exceeded accepted
standards and are in breach of current regulations."

What regulations? What standards?

Isn't that a very easy question to answer? Given that they appear to be
writing to the owners of the offending cars, they will need some way of
identifying the vehicle - ie numberplate. That gives them enough to know
what regulations apply to it.

They're doing a real-time DVLA lookup on every single plate that's scanned,
in order to know what standards are applicable so they can know if it
passes or fails...?

No, I don't beleive that, either.

Don't need to do it real-time. The data volumes involved are tiny - number plate, one or two numbers for the emissions values. Log it all, take it home, do it as a batch job. Trivial.

cheers,
clive

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