Comments on: Australian government revs up license plate cameras

National rollout could take one to four years, depending on response to a study now under way and how long it takes to secure funding for the project.

[Greg5A]

License Plate Scanning

This kind of stuff makes me very uneasy. Computers and advances in technology seems to be giving government the ability to track our every move.

What's next? Do we get Borg implants and transmitters in our heads so the government can track our every move in order to "Keep Us Safe"?

[AJ Pants]

Entrapment

My parents live in Australia and over the years must have paid thousands of dollars in fines thanks to these hidden cameras. They are strategically placed to generate as much revenue as possible and will flash if you are doing a mere 5K's (3 miles) over the limit. Not only are there privacy issues involved, they operate under the elusion of saving lives, which they have been not proven to do anyway.

[volterwd]

also...

this can be used to track political dissidents, and other people who have not committed crimes but are not liked by TPTB.

[NoVista]

Interpretive speed limits

Once I was doing the legal 60K on a four-lane inner surub road in Melbourne -- and a cop pulls alongside and yells, "Move it, you're holding up traffic.

Yair, the average speed along there in morning rush hour was 80K. They didn't put out the speed camera at that spot until about 9:15 ...

The open road speed limit used to be 110K but they dropped it back to 100. But in outback Queensland, on what's called development roads, the signs are still 110. These roads have alternate sections of one sealed lane and gravel on the other side. Meeting a road train along there is kinda exciting ...

[AJ Pants]

read again

The cameras don't make them speed you bozo. As I said, they are strategically placed, such as in zones that quickly drop from 80 to 60 Ks an hour.
That's entrapment.

[volterwd]

your the clown

None of your supposed info is in the article (or your previous post for that matter) and strategically placed or not people are expected to follow them. Instead of taking it up on CNET and acting like a chile you should be writing your local news or politician.