The smart road that spies

The smart road that spies on you - but it doesn't really... | The Register:
"Environment for Efficient Transport in the Western Isles of Europe -
this covers the UK and the Republic of Ireland, and is intended to "
This is quite a good article about an Intelligent Road System (IRS..hmm
bad acronym but anyway). I especially like the paragraph:

The popular press seems perfectly cool about unimportant
stuff like freedom and personal privacy, but just you try to enforce
the speed limit, or even present them with some slight possibility that
you might at some future date try to enforce the speed limit, and they
become the Provisional wing of the National Rifle Association