I was following a local driving school car earlier and noticed that it said
ANPR cameras connected to DVLA for traffic offences
Seems unlikely but anyone heard of this.
8wheels:
I was following a local driving school car earlier and noticed that it saidANPR cameras connected to DVLA for traffic offences
Seems unlikely but anyone heard of this.
99% of petrol stations have similar cameras these days, which part of it is unlikely?
Which part is unlikely? Well every part tbh, I didn’t know it was in the remit of DVLA to deal with traffic offences, I didn’t know it was in the remit of driving instructors to police the roads, and finally I didn’t realise that ANPR cameras were used to prosecute moving traffic violations.
Apart from that, very likely I’d say.
And so George Orwell’s 1984 looks evermore like a prophecy rather than a work of fiction
switchlogic:
And so George Orwell’s 1984 looks evermore like a prophecy rather than a work of fiction
George Orwells 1984 was first published in 1949 & I doubt that you have actually read it, if you have, you most certainly have not understood it.
Chas:
switchlogic:
And so George Orwell’s 1984 looks evermore like a prophecy rather than a work of fictionGeorge Orwells 1984 was first published in 1949 & I doubt that you have actually read it, if you have, you most certainly have not understood it.
Oh how very pompous of you. Like I needed telling when it was published, I didn’t think the title was the publishing date…and I’d argue you’re the one who hasn’t understood it or indeed read it. Unusual for a former ‘senior manager in a FTSE 250 company’ that just happens to frequent trucknet. After all, you didn’t correct me on its title…
My god Chas I seem to have done you a terrible disservice, FTSE 250 indeed. So sorry old bean. Was this before or after working in recovery?
Chas:
When I was a captain of industry & a very senior manager in a footsie 100, your interview started a long time before you actually sat in front of me & started talking bollox.What car you were driving & how you parked it were very important to me.
LUKE
Love the videos - yer a funny man.
I think Bertie reads more George Orwel than you 
Thanks! But Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of my favourite books. I reread it again last month after hearing the Radio 4 dramatisation earlier this year. So there. 
Constant monitoring by the state is the theme of Nineteen Eighty Four. We now have more cameras pointed at us here in the UK (per head of population) then in any other country in the world.
It’s a depressing book, but there’s an interesting footnote to the glossary on Newspeak, which talks about it in the past tense, suggesting that eventually the totalitarian society depicted in the novel would be overthrown and liberty restored.
I actually prefer Orwell’s essays and political writing to the novels…but Homage to Catalonia (the account of his part in the Spanish civil war) is probably the best of the lot.
Regarding the OP, I should think it is a (slightly) veiled threat to drivers who may want to carve up a learner driver, along the same lines as a “no tools left in this van overnight” sticker - we all know it may or may not be true, but it might make you think twice? 
I suspect the ADI has got his terminology wrong. His car might well be fitted with recording front and rear cameras, but he/she is mislead thinking they are called Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras.
The cams onboard a driving school car are a valuable teaching aid, as (especially the forwarded facing one) can be played back to the pupil and its content discussed.
Wish I’d had one 20 years ago.
GasGas:
Constant monitoring by the state is the theme of Nineteen Eighty Four. We now have more cameras pointed at us here in the UK (per head of population) then in any other country in the world.
I remember when our politicians used to tell us how awful the communist regimes were and how they carried out constant surveillance of thier population, but we seem to be falling into the same trap and any objections are met with the stock answer “if you’re not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about” and “it’s for our own protection”
But I don’t trust politicians, they are supposed to serve us, but what they really want is total power.
muckles:
GasGas:
“if you’re not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about” and “it’s for our own protection”
Two of the most dangerous phrases in the English language in my opinion. It was actually a post by Rob K that taught me there’s a phrase for all this, ‘function creep’.
GasGas:
Constant monitoring by the state is the theme of Nineteen Eighty Four. We now have more cameras pointed at us here in the UK (per head of population) then in any other country in the world.It’s a depressing book, but there’s an interesting footnote to the glossary on Newspeak, which talks about it in the past tense, suggesting that eventually the totalitarian society depicted in the novel would be overthrown and liberty restored.
I actually prefer Orwell’s essays and political writing to the novels…but Homage to Catalonia (the account of his part in the Spanish civil war) is probably the best of the lot.
There we go, spot on.
switchlogic:
My god Chas I seem to have done you a terrible disservice, FTSE 250 indeed. So sorry old bean. Was this before or after working in recovery?Chas:
When I was a captain of industry & a very senior manager in a footsie 100…
It was before. It was around the same time he made all his friends in high places.
I can imagine them now, all sat around the dinner table; QCs, chief constables, millionaire businessmen, senior politicians… and Chas - a bloke who delivers bricks on a lorry. 
Bless him. I think it’s about time Rampton Secure Hospital started limiting internet access for patients.