Reply to post: Re: Just to annoy the tin-foil attired!

It's amazing the UK Parliament agreed to track 22bn Brits' car trips. Oh right – it didn't

Bernard M. Orwell

Re: Just to annoy the tin-foil attired!

In this particular instance I can confirm that MB is correct. ANPR do not identify the drivers and when an offence is detected by an ANPR (and the paperwork issued to the registered owner) you may have noticed that one of the valid defences is to claim that someone other than the named driver was operating the vehicle at the time of the offence, or that the vehicle doesn't actually belong to you (Stolen, sold, hired etc.).

This shows clearly that the ANPR database doesn't have a way of identifying the actual, physical driver and indeed even when linked to the DVLA database the information is not entirely complete.

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