Roadside cameras that detect BLOOD will catch lone drivers who abuse car-sharing lanes | the Daily Mail

The latest snooping device on the nation's roads aims to penalise lone drivers who abuse car-sharing lanes, and is part of a Government effort to combat congestion at busy times.



New cameras have been unveiled in the UK, to try to enforce car-sharing lanes on roads. The new cameras send an infra-red beam through the windscreen, which apparently measure the amount of blood and water in the car, and therefore, how many people are in there. The idea is that it should identify people that use the car sharing lanes in cities like Birmingham and Leeds, when they're the only person in the car, as well as the really sneaky ones who pose mannequins in their passenger seats (people do this?).

Questions that immediately spring to mind include 'what if the passengers aren't viewable from the windscreen', 'what if you've got a really, really big person' and 'is this a wind-up'. Still, it sounds fancy.




Just the idea that camera that detects blood is kind of creepy, if you ask me. I understand that it's trying to be put to good use, but this is probably going a bit too far if you ask me.