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Future Ford's May Detect Speeding and Report You to the Cops

It might become much harder to speed without getting a ticket in the future.

A report containing both speed data and images of the targeted vehicle could then be sent directly to a police car or roadside monitoring units via an Internet connection, according to Ford. It also means some of that work could be delegated to self-driving cars, which could be equipped to detect speeding violations, the automaker adds. It's unclear what legal argument Ford would make should it try to implement this tech, as human police officers wouldn't be witnessing the alleged speeding being reported through the connected cars.

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