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Police are tagging fleeing cars with GPS darts to avoid dangerous pursuits

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Re: Police are tagging fleeing cars with GPS darts to avoid dangerous pursuits

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Hereditary peerage was ended with the House of Lords Act 1999.

I don't know anything about UK law, but apparently the act still allows for 92 hereditary peers[1], and indeed: "The most recent grant of a hereditary peerage was in 2019 for the youngest child of Elizabeth II, Prince Edward"[2] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords_Act_1999 [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_peer

I was specifically referring to hereditary peerage in the House of Lords, which was almost completely done away with. At around 13% of members, the chamber is largely no longer a chamber of hereditary peers. Hereditary peerage and hereditary peerage participation in the house of lords are separate. There are around 800 hereditary peers, but since 1999, only 92 of these hereditary titles have a spot in the house of lords. The hereditary peerage granted to Prince Edward is not one of the 92 hereditary peerages in the House of Lords, so it doesn't allow him participation.

Re: Police are tagging fleeing cars with GPS darts to avoid dangerous pursuits

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They do speed tracking by camera and send fines in the mail already in the UK. Reports are that nationwide camera network already tracks cars from driveway to destination. Worse cameras are now looking at activity inside the vehicle for fines - like not having a seatbelt in place or having a cellphone in hand. There was even a fine issued for “flipping off” a traffic camera https://nypost.com/2021/02/15/uk-driver-avo…

> Reports are ... Weasel words.

https://www.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/rs/road-...

Re: Police are tagging fleeing cars with GPS darts to avoid dangerous pursuits

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I just leave mine off entirely. When it fails to scan, they do ALPR to figure out who to send the ticket to, but, before they send a ticket they lookup against the EZPass database to see if your car is in it, and if so, they just debit your account like the tag did scan. If that happens often enough, they send you a new tag and ask for the broken one back. Oddly I keep getting defective tags.

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