Wireless Street Lamps for Traffic Monitoring

RMH101 writes "The Register has a story about a UK initiative to create a country-wide wireless data network using street lamps. It's come to pass through a government initiative to monitor all cars' speed and location, all the time, everywhere. The company involved, Last Mile, are proposing an intelligent mesh of smart street lamps embedded with storage and wireless networking to create 200MBit network access across the UK, including remote areas not reachable by conventional broadband. Work is due to start this year."

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[sinucus]

Is there anything left in the UK that isn't being monitored? Cameras on all the streets, in the stores and now wireless monitoring your speed. Bye bye 2004, hello 1984.

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[NickFitz]

Is there anything left in the UK that isn't being monitored?

The government?

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[mirio]

"So I'm a biased pedestrian..."

So I suppose you wouldn't mind if the government planted a GPS unit in your person to make sure you only crossed the street at crosswalks?

Because speeding has little to do with accidents

[Moderation abuser]

Only 7% of accidents have anything at all to do with speeding. It's a damned near insignificant number.

The other *93%* of accidents are caused by shit driving which can't be monitored by speed cameras or wireless street lights.

The accident rate in the UK was falling steadily *until* the police and local government started installing thousands of speed cameras everywhere. It is no longer falling because now shit driving is OK as long as you don't go 5mph over the bloody limit.

I break the speed limit *every* single day but I don't drive dangerously. Speeding and dangerous driving are *not* the same thing.