The Safety Camera vans used by Lancashire Police now detect if you are wearing a seat belt.

Lancs Road Police Tweeted.

Our safety camera vans can detect drivers who are not wearing a seat belt. This week they have detected 11 drivers who will all receive notification from us in the post.

They cannot possibly detect if you're not wearing a seat belt but they can check the photo they take to see if it appears that you are not wearing it.

Originally Posted by Alikado

They cannot possibly detect if you're not wearing a seat belt but they can check the photo they take to see if it appears that you are not wearing it.

Quite. It's amazing how much faith people put in 'technology'.

Even if such a machine existed, they'd still have to rely on visual identification of a photo in court if you appealed.

Reminds me of the fake TV detector van era.

"They know what your watching"

Originally Posted by local

Reminds me of the fake TV detector van era.

"They know what your watching"

I used to know someone whose Dad drove one of those vans. When they were assigned to a particular town, they parked the van in the town centre and then went to the caff. They came back to the van at 4pm and went home.

The next day, their boss told them that sales of TV licences in that particular area had rocketed overnight. The actual 'detection' was virtually non-existent if it happened at all.

Originally Posted by Lamparilla

Quite. It's amazing how much faith people put in 'technology'.

Even if such a machine existed, they'd still have to rely on visual identification of a photo in court if you appealed.

Such a machine does exist, albeit fixed position. https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.u...ng-2002587.amp

Originally Posted by donkey22

Such a machine does exist, albeit fixed position. https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.u...ng-2002587.amp

I wouldn't set much store by that article.

It also refers to smoking and eating, neither of which are offences per se, as far as I'm aware. You have to be observed by a police officer who, if they saw you smoking/eating etc, would then judge whether or not you were driving with due care and attention.

If it's true, though, you could drive along playing a trumpet because presumably the cameras aren't programmed to recognise one of those!

Originally Posted by donkey22

Such a machine does exist, albeit fixed position. https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.u...ng-2002587.amp

Read your own link* it's just a higher resolution camera and as Lamparilla stated someone would need to look at the image for prosecution purposes.


*They have such high-definition imagery they can pick up on all sorts of offences, as well as their main purpose- to catch drivers breaking speed limits.


A man with a camera could have done that 50 years ago.