Re: Big Brother is watching your exhaust (in Bristol)
- From: "Dr Zoidberg" <alexNOOOOOO!!!!!!!@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:41:08 -0000
Adrian wrote:
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.
Why would they need to do that?
They aren't stopping cars at the roadside so they can just store a list of
VRMs and emissions results and process them later
--
Alex
"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away"
www.drzoidberg.co.uk www.ebayfaq.co.uk
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