New camera can catch motorists committing five different offences

This is the chilling new super speed camera heading for Europe’s roads – which can catch motorists committing five different offences at the same time. The ASSET camera can peer inside a vehicle and see if the driver is wearing a seatbelt and can also measure distances between cars to identify tailgating.

As well as speeding, the device reads number plates and can instantly recognise cars with out-of-date tax discs and no insurance. The trailer-mounted device – the first to detect multiple offences at the same time – is connected to police computers via GPS and can instantly process prosecutions.



ASSET (Advance Safety and Driver Support for Essential Road Transport) is being funded with £7.1m of European Commission money. It is currently undergoing testing in Finland and is expected to be rolled out across Europe from 2013, with each unit costing £50,000.

Britain currently has cameras which can detect speeding and tax and insurance violations separately, but this is the first for multitude of offences.