That sign telling you how fast you’re driving may be spying on you

in France, they will actually flash your plate on the big highway sign, telling you to slow down.

Well that's inappropriate. I don't want to see a billboard's penis.

But do they record everywhere you've been?

'1984' was apparently a how-to manual.

The world is sliding back into the dark ages.

They had digital readout signs in the Middle Ages?

They had digital readout signs in the Middle Ages?

They were analogue. Just some guy in a dark cloak following you around and putting your name on a list.

I've seen that bastard lurking around the dark corners of CKA!

(And his name is on my list!)

But do they record everywhere you've been?

'1984' was apparently a how-to manual.


Every toll booth and every border crossing takes pictures of every car that crosses,
and files it away somewhere.

So they know all you do.

But do they record everywhere you've been?

'1984' was apparently a how-to manual.


Every toll booth and every border crossing takes pictures of every car that crosses,
and files it away somewhere.

So they know all you do.

No, they only know when you cross borders and toll booths. Europe has laws restricting the datas' use.

In the US, cars drive around everywhere scanning plates, and there are few and patchy laws regarding how this data is used and kept.

And here they may have a storage device inside but there's no data line, antenna or receiver close by. The one at the north entrance to town has slowed the logging trucks who used to blast by the park at 80 but still leaves lots of tickets for the usual Tuesday radar/commercial safety check to hand out lots of tickets for going 60.
Since the one at the other end was installed, no one has slid off the S curve and down the hill into the homes on the rez.

They work.