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Until shop security is allowed to shoot offenders, no amount of technology is going to stop anything.

The above is definitely the answer.      

We know facial recognition is seriously flawed and there are plenty of documented cases where a completely innocent person has been arrested based on facial recognition.     If it worked it would be a useful tool to catch criminals but, there have been too many ‘false positives’, which seriously pisses off the completely innocent party concerned. False arrest results in a lawsuit, so the taxpayer has to cough up again.

“Several high-profile cases have occurred where facial recognition technology (FRT) has wrongly identified and led to the arrest of innocent people, highlighting significant flaws in the technology's accuracy, particularly concerning racial bias. These incidents often involve law enforcement relying on surveillance, leading to "false positives" where the system incorrectly matches an innocent person's photo to a suspect.”

Until shop security is allowed to shoot offenders, no amount of technology is going to stop anything.

Certain police forces in the UK are already using facial recognition.  The retail sector are also using facial recognition CCTV systems to identify those that have been found to shoplift in the past.  These systems will now spread, and frankly, why not?

Only those that have something to hide, or have been found guilty of crime should fear this.  If we have nothing to hide, and are honest citizens, these systems can only assist us, the police and any service industries, in keeping us safe and free from crime.  As a side issue, but a very important one, is that as a retired senior retail manager I know how much shoplifting / criminality on retail premises cost us, the public.  Losses are transferred onto the prices we pay, and staff lose their jobs because of the costs of criminality that business has to cover, and cannot.

Welcome to the 21st century

Planet killing soot chucker's should meet the same end as the dinosaur.

Nothing used to hear me up more when I was in the Battlebus - before DTM fixed it - of lifting then flooring the throttle, covering the car following too close behind in a cloud of soot.

I always used to chuckle


Wasn't half as much fun after DTM made the Battlebus work properly, but was a damn site quicker

Pah, for real fun you need to be running on WVO obtained from the local curry house. I used to larf my arse off when sat at traffic lights, looking in the rear view mirror, lip reading the driver in the car behind saying to their passengers " Whats that farkin smell ?"   
First time I took it for MOT he said, "Get that thing out of here. Its a workshop not a farkin chip shop. Come back when you have some proper fuel in the tank". 

I have been out, and driven, the new X900 a few times.

We all agree that a V12 would work nicely in it but, the 1000bhp is also pretty interesting

We used to have one on my dad’s back door facing the door. We ordered his weekly food from Morrisons. My dad used to tell the delivery man. “ Icant eat all that”. The delivery man pressed the button to “ speak to head office “(us) andhewouldthen accept it!

We find them brilliant for seeing anything untoward on our property while we are away. We disable them when we are there.

I thought I read something about them doing facial recognition ages ago. Didn't pay much attention as there's as much chance of one of them appearing on my door as a french car on my driveway.

George Orwell wasn't far off the mark .... 

Ring are looking at a service for lost dogs . Using our Ring cameras

How long before facial recognition comes in for us humans 

I have three of them and a fourth I cannot currently get to work…….

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It was my 'A' series engine that laid a real, thick, blue smoke trail, every time I deaccelerated then accelerated, until that uncle taught how to replace the very worn and broken valves!!

The problem here was that the valve stem rubber seals would become hard and would start riding up and down on the valve stem, instead of staying in the recess designed to hold them in place. On my van, I used to lay a smoke trail deliberately, by doing what you describe, if someone was sat too close behind me. 

With my A40 the problem was two valves had chunks missing out of them and as a 10year old car, in those days, it was worn out!  It also had a body that was not attached to the chassis as the sills and cross members, especially under the passenger seat, had rotted away, with holes in the wings.  It still passed the MOT twice though!!   That car was a bargain as it cost me just £30, which I recouped when someone knocked on my door and offered me £30 for the number!    Great days indeed!