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Ford could be working on a camera system that automatically reports speeding vehicles

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Unfortunately, Ford isn’t calling it the Auto-Snitch 5000
A recent patent filing by Ford titled «Systems and Methods for Detecting Speeding Violations» appears to show that the company is looking at a way of automatically snitching on speeding motorists.
According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the filing looks at ways Ford can use it vehicles and the on-board camera and sensor technology to first detect a speeding motorist and then report them to the authorities.
A series of basic sketches and flow charts show how Ford’s technology can sense when a fellow motorist is driving over the speed limit, subsequently activate the camera and capture images before passing the information on to nearby ‘pursuit vehicles’ or logging it to a server.
The patent states that speed of the offending vehicle, GPS location data and clear imagery or video can be captured and sent to the relevant authorities, which can then decide to initiate a pursuit.

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