This afternoon.
Nass, county Kildare.
Gardai at a checkpoint using smartphones running a new app to detect whether cars are out of insurance or tax. The Active Mobility App has access to Pulse system, PSNI information, driver and vehicle records .
What could possibly go wrong?
The app uses technology pioneered by the Department of Post and Telegraph in the 1970s.
Fight!
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Loving the “pioneered” link!
hahaha :)
Finally! Can we get rid of insurance and tax discs now?
Should be completely automated. License gets scanned entering or leaving a town/city, checks against database, if anything on the car is more than a month out of date a ‘polite’ notice is issued. A month more than that or if driver has a history of driving without tax/insurance/license then a fine is issued.
Same thing with red lights at a junction, anything breaking the lights gets an automatic fine. Might need some additional working to issue those fines to someone not in a car. They’d have the whole scheme paid for in a month at a few select junctions in Dublin city.
‘Should be completely automated’ = denis o’brien gets another sweet, sweet contract delivering an overpriced system with loads of get-clauses; one of those man united-style, ‘you pay for it and i’ll own it’ deals.
mmmm, gravy..
unfortunately, yes. For me, the idea makes complete sense but I know FFG would make absolute poo of it as usual.
took a while to come to Ireland. UK have had this system for years.
im not proud to say this, but im delighted. i personally know people that use fake tax discs and im the smuck that pays the car tax every year.
GDPR I hear you say???
Who’ll look after the reduntant pidgeons ?
I’ll continue using the Waze app to avoid checkpoints like this one so…
https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/waze-navigation-live-traffic/id323229106
Cops are just tax collectors with the power of arrest.
Simpler to just put car tax and insurance onto the price of fuel.
but the futures electric