… and will soon be invisible. Anyone who bases their arguments about the dangers of camera surveillance on the primitiveness of current technology is, unlike the latest cameras, being very short sighted. Take a look, for example, at this:

It sounds like the speeder's nightmare. A speed camera accurate up to 150mph which can be concealed in road studs as small as a cat's eye indicator, and which can also - as you're passing - cast a glance at your tyres to see if they're a bit bald.

And at you, to see who you are and where you are, and what you're up to. If not yet, then very soon.

Wake up: this camera exists, and it's being trialled.

I'm awake already.

But the anti-camera lobby can rest easy for a while. The Department for Transport says that there is no way that these cameras, designed and made by a British company called Astucia, will ever be used for "enforcement" to level fines and penalty points. However, they will start being tested around the country later this year, as part of the wider efforts to encourage motorists to respect speed limits.

So, they will not (yet) do "enforcement", not "for a while". But they can already do "encourage". Sounds like enforcement will be with us very soon.