Quote Originally Posted by D Wilson
They've been talking about this for years and to be honest I don't think it'll ever really happen to the extent you're describing.
The sheer difficulties involved in forcing every vehicle owner in the UK to pay to install a system that by its very nature renders itself incredibly unpopular will make it practically impossible to enforce.
The most likely way that anything of this kind will come into effect is if it is made compulsory that all new vehicles are manufactured with some kind of "black box" in place. It will push the prices of the vehicles up, perhaps by up to about £200, but there is no way that all vehicles already in possession of private citizens can be compulsorarily fitted with these devices.
And should enough of the voting public become lethargic enough to let it slip through any referendum on it through sheer apathy then so many people will either refuse to get it fitted or remove it if it already has been then it would be an absolute nightmare to enforce.
Far cheaper to buy more cameras!
Difficulty in imposing it ? Pfffft.
"500 pounds fine if you haven't fitted your vehicle with one in x months after it's been promulgated". Cop sees you, you pay the fine. Works wonders.