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How can it not be trivial to detect that in most cases?

Must match make model and color with the number plate, also must make sure that the real number plate isn't used ~simultaneously somewhere distant.




"match make model" sounds very difficult automatically from some traffic camera. "plate isn't used ~simultaneously somewhere" even if it is, which one is legit?

And do what, dispatch the police immediately to both plates? It's also a question of not be caught _for how long_


I read an article a while ago talking about this exact thing. Apparently the answer is yes, the UK police do notice if a number plate makes an impossible journey, and while they didn’t claim in the article that they automatically verify make and model, they do have the ability and motivation to send a police car after both vehicles in such cases.

Of course the story would be slightly more believable if not for the fact that shortly after I read it, the police sent me a speeding ticket for a car which I had sold nine months earlier.


>tjoff posts on FaceBook: wow, this week vacation in Bahama is great!

takes plate from car


How much of a problem are unregistered drivers in the UK actually? Or is this one of those anecdotes-turned-hypothetical-epidemic things lawmakers use to rally support?


> takes car

FTFY




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