UK Begins Testing Of GPS Based Speed Traps, How Long Until They Move Stateside?

The article doesn't fully explain how SpeedSpike works. It is a network of cameras that use GPS satellites for time information only - so that all the cameras are synced. The cameras can read number plates (tags) - this is nothing new...if you drive in and out of London, you are charged when you cross in and out of the restricted zone based on your tag being read by a camera. The failed London bombers from a couple of years ago were nabbed by a tag reader on the M6 motorway.

So you have a network of cameras. Every time your tag is photographed, the big-brother server looks at all the other places you have been and, if you have covered any distance in too short a time, you get a ticket.

Great Britain has had average speed cameras for a while but those are known pairs - one when you enter a zone and one when you exit. SpeedSpike is a network of many cameras, hundreds if you want, snapping photos of your tag and comparing your location to the time you were last seen.

I'm sure we;ll see it here in the US soon.

In the US though, you have deal with proof of who is driving, not just the owner. Does the UK just ticket the owner?

The question is how long till we have chips implanted in our brain, monitoring what we do, where we are, what we eat, where we spend our money and how big was our morning dump...