From now on local authorities will be using CCTV to capture the number plates of drivers who fail to take notice of the local parking restrictions. No longer will drivers know that they have been caught by finding a parking ticket on their windscreens. As their number plates will be used to automatically issue tickets through the post.
This system has been used in London for some time, but this is the first time that all local authorities can now use sophisticated CCTV systems instead of using the traditional method of using parking attendants to find cars that are illegally parked and issuing a parking ticket.
Although this is not the end of the parking attendant as they will now have the additional power of just writing the ticket, before they had to physically attach the ticket to the car, this is not the case now. This new system will mean that there will be a marked increase in the amount of parking tickets issued, so whereas before it was possible to drop someone off or quickly park and get back in the car and drive off before the parking attendant arrived will be a thing of the past as the CCTV can issued a ticket automatically.
This has raised fears that there will be an increase in number plate thefts and even more worrying number plate cloning in an attempt to avoid being caught by the CCTV.
Source [Autocar]
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