Big Brother is Watching Us

A view from an overhead camera with a strong zoom lens

Be careful!

We have seen on television scenes from inside some cars that reveal what the driver was doing in addition to watching the road. We have seen people eating sandwiches, drinking beer, talking on their mobiles, trying to make sense of their GPS system, and we have even seen driver and passenger playing sexually with one another on the highway. I always wondered why the people didn't hear or see the helicopter, when it occurred to me that the images were from overhead cameras, not helicopters.

You are probably saying, oh! oh!, because we just don't think about the fact that those monitoring cameras are there and they see, and can follow the action in your car. That puts everything into a different context and will make a lot of us go, "Oh my Gawd!"

A small thing, but most of us commit the offence of not having both hands on the wheel other then when we are changing gears. The most frequent offence, Im sure is talking on the telephone. A call comes in, we look around us to see if the police are anywhere near us, and we pick up the phone, completely forgetting about the cameras. The DGT makes no effort to cover up their existance. Each pole with a camera has a yellow sticker with a picture of the camera at the height of a person. Alternate cameras focus on the front of the car, and others the back  of the car.

This is just a heads up to remind you that Big Brother is always watching us, and don't forget about the cameras up above, as well as those on the ground tracking our speed. Meanwhile, congratulations drivers for watching your speeds and saving ourselves a mountain of money as tickets for speeding have fallen by 50%.

Copyright (c) 2012    Eugene Carmichael