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"Granted there are cheaper UAV out there"

In other news, there are smaller ships than the Queen Mary 2...

"Generally its unlikely they could carry a payload sufficient for the level of surveillance necessary for traffic enforcement."

Having been nailed with a speeding ticket from a Cessna: All they need is a camera with someone watching it that can say "blue car, coming from half a mile away". You don't even need radar or any sort of speed tracking, you just time the car between to landmarks (the same way that local police do it in states that only allow state police to use radar guns). The type of drones your local hackerspace whips up for fun on a weekend are damn near sufficient.




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