Tyre cameras revealed

The Time has come!!!!

It is everyones responsibility to go out each night and smash a roadside camera, this is just getting pathetic and the Government will just keep on going until people say enough is enough. Utility bills, shopping bills, transport bills are getting higher and higher and salarys are not keeping up. The people have been squeezed enough and its time people in the whole of the UK stood up and said enough was enough!!!! This just pisses me off!!! (And Im this pissed and I dont even live in the UK anymore because I got so fed up with being raped by bills every month, moved to another country where salarys are higher and bills are lower with the added bonus of sunshine 300 days of the year, best move I ever made)

By Cyeber on 29 September, 2011, 3:28pm

Excellent idea

Seems like a good idea to me if it either reduces accidents or gets the idiots with illegal tyres off the road.

By SLKManiac on 29 September, 2011, 4:13pm

????

And the number of accidents caused by there being

By Acegio on 29 September, 2011, 5:41pm

where is the rest of my entry ?

And the number of accidents caused by there being

By Acegio on 29 September, 2011, 5:43pm

BULLSH#T

This absolutely ridiculous... These pricks are just trying to make money out of us in every single way they can! insane!

By myRS3 on 29 September, 2011, 10:50pm

Trevor Hall has made money from speed cameras, which the authorities and experts (Highways Agency, TRL and Prof Allsop) now admit cause more accidents than they could ever prevent.
He also makes money from RSS (Road Safety Support (sic)) an organisation whose sole aim is to ensure innocent drivers are prosecuted when the speed camera, or the operator, or other evidence is weak (they act as supposedly independent witnesses but are paid by the prosecution).
If Hall is excited, it is because he can see pound signs before his eyes.
He is unsuitable to advise anyone - especially government departments.

By bripe on 29 September, 2011, 11:12pm

Another example of a UK Surrvalence Nanny state!

Give us a break politicians! Isn't life hard enough and complicated for motorists as it is!

By JTravolta77 on 30 September, 2011, 1:34am

Why don't they just kill everyone at birth? It'd make the roads safer and I'm sure they could find some pretext in our DNA as to why we're all career criminals bent on violating every technical specification there is. Imagine the public money that would be saved!

By PedroConejo on 30 September, 2011, 2:03pm

who watchers the watcher?

Lets be clear about this, its "ACPO LIMITED" they are not a govenment body, they are a business run by very highly paid present and ex police officers.......this would be considered corruption if it were to take place in Iraq! pot, kettle and black comes to mind!

By johnny1962 on 1 October, 2011, 5:16am

Brilliant!

This is a brilliant idea! It could be adapted to activate a "stinger" to bring the car with the warn tread to a juddering halt, AND trash the tyres at the same time! Add in little pop-up cameras to check the sidewalls for cuts, and at the same time read the age of the tyre and activate the system if problems are found. It could also check for worn shock absorbers and broken springs. Coupled with those yellow "Revenue Cameras", they could be onto a right money-spinner. The dark patch on TH's trousers is growing.

By r0mac on 4 October, 2011, 9:46am

Out of Control

Anyone spot the serious flaw? The device can check only a few inches of the 60" or so circumference of the tyre.

Technology has come a long way since IBM sold the Nazis punched cards to use to identify those whom they wanted to arrest in occupied Europe but the principle remains the same - mad scientists dream up equipment without the slightest regard to how it will be used by increasingly totalitarian authorities. They want locking up before we all are.

If Trevor Hall ran Essex Road Safety (sic) Partnership he was probably the man who gave a 30 minute speech at a Rospa conference in Feb 2009 on the supposedly excellent results he had achieved at Essex camera sites - without apparently being aware that on the other 97% of Essex roads they had one of the worst records in the entire country!

This was a man who clearly had no understanding whatever of statistics or accidents or in this case not only that the contribution of worn tyres - irrelevant in any case in the dry - to accidents is quite small, and probably smaller than the contrution of more insidious and more difficult to spot tyre damage caused by pot holes and speed humps.

About 4 years ago I was about to set off on a 250 mile drive when I noticed that one tyre looked down. It had to be thrown away and replaced because of inner side-wall lacerations caused by running into a deep pot hole the previous night.

It's time to remove such people from road safety policy making where they are real and present danger to the travelling public

By Idris_Francis on 8 October, 2011, 12:54pm

Another £43,000 wasted that could be used to repair potholed roads and remove speed humps that damage our tyres.

I wonder how vandal resistant they are?

About time ACPO plc was put out of business.

By biggsy24 on 8 October, 2011, 9:37pm

Getting a bit TYRED of this Autosnitch Punishment society now!!

Nobody lets their tyres get down to the limit for fun, Britains poorly kept roads are costing each of us hundreds of pounds in Tyres, suspension and fuel economy already!!

...this is another way of scareing you into spending out on tyres much earlier than needed to avoid fine which is an environmental issue itself. also what happens if a new trye goes over it with a sticker on, or the grooves have stones or dirt in?
also in dry weather grooved tyres have LESS grip than completely slick (smooth/ bald) tyres

Cyeber has the right idea, this country has gone to pot, sucked dry by every parasite that get their teeth into us :-(

By 4x4x90 on 10 October, 2011, 9:26pm

Trevor Hall is on the ball

Every couple of minutes I pass a car where the driver is using a mobile phone. I know that sometimes drivers are caught and fined for it but nowhere near as often as they ought to be. This is a far greater danger to other road users and pedestrians than a marginally worn tyre. They don;'t have any equipment to use for this save for the occasional working speed camera which takes an oncoming vehicle photograph.
Bald tyres are dangerous too, I know that. I make no excuse for using them but hey.... priorities please. This cosy little bunch of renegade ex cops are using their former position in police circles to gain financial benefits and care little for road safety or even non discriminatory evidence giving as expert witnesses they get involved with. Anyway, how in hell's name does Medd Hughes who was a chief constable at the time of the formation of RSS Ltd become the managing director of the company whilst still in police employment. I can see any of his officers or other police staff doing the same thing with his permission, can't you?

By Lynnzer on 25 October, 2011, 10:40am

a step too far

and a big waste of cash that will not save lives... better idea would be to change the tyre tread required to pass a MOT to 2mm but keep the legal limit at 1 .5

By liverpool on 26 October, 2011, 7:37pm

What a load of conspiracist twaddle!

Personally, I think it's about time this aspect of car maintenance is more strongly scrutinised. I sometimes find the naivety of people quite startling, think about your car, it’s a ton or so of metal travelling at fairly high speed and one and only thing that keeps that vehicle stuck the road (with the help of some basic physical laws) is your tyres. I'm dismayed when in motorway service stations etc... you walk around to see how many cars have either bold or highly unevenly warn tyres, and their owners seem totally nonplussed about the physical ramifications this can cause. I don't know about you but I’d rather have such a system in place and not have some moron who doesn’t understand basic physics ploughing into the back of my car because he or she was too ignorant to properly maintain it! Any argument about money is puerile at best, if you have a car it’s your responsibility to maintain it, to at least the minimum standard laid down by the law (which personally I think is somewhat lax in a number of areas and badly policed in others!) Remember a car is a privilege not a right and if you can’t afford to look after your car then don’t have one, or stop spending all your money on Stella and cigarettes!

Also all the other posts with the torrent of conspiracist twaddle, I think you need to get a grip, speed cameras may make money, I’m not sure as I’ve never myself studied the data and generally other people will skew the findings to suit their own argument so that’s not something I’m going to argue, but at the end of the day they’re bright yellow and the giant signs with the numbers in them dotted around the roads tell you the speed limit, so it’s not a difficult one to avoid! People constantly argue about “Nanny States” etc… the reason this has to be the case is due to the fact that 99% of the populous spends more time thinking about who’s going to win x-factor than they do about the important things in life, so really you should be thankful that these incentives exist and people are watching over our shoulder, otherwise life as we know it would ground to a bloody halt!

By OH_58 on 12 December, 2011, 11:40pm

Road Condition

Maybe if the roads weren't in such a poor condition, the accident rates would be much lower! But that would involve money (maybe given as aid to other countries) being used on our roads, and we can't have that now can we????

Sometimes, actually, most of the time, it seems that logic is thrown out of the window when it comes to making decisions

By Random_abc123 on 15 December, 2011, 11:18am