An Imaginative Use For CCTVs

An anonymous reader writes "Everyone knows we're being watched by CCTVs everywhere — particularly in the UK — and virtually everyone (at least on Slashdot) complains about that fact. But have you ever stopped to consider the ways you can use all those CCTVs to your advantage? The Get Out Clause, an unsigned band from Manchester in the UK, did just that; they played in front of 80 different CCTVs around Manchester, and then asked for the video via Freedom of Information Act letters. (About 25% of the CCTV owners complied with the law and turned them over.) The result isn't too bad."

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Re:"Stars of CCTV"

[somersault]

Driving slowly is not the same as driving safely, though any accidents had are admittedly less likely to cause damage at lower speeds, so you could say that's "safer".

Our cars generally handle better anyway so we can take corners better than those boats they make in North America :P You don't make driving safer with cameras, you make it safer with appropriate vehicles and training. Basically everyone in the UK breaks the speed limit by varying margins, some are idiots, some are not. Our speed limits were made in 1974 - we have better brakes, suspension and tyres these days, so I think the speed limit on motorways could sensibly be raised to 80 or 90 for good weather (I think they're about 85mph in France when it's dry).