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Safer Streets

Bangkok’s roads are a dangerous place with over 30,000 accidents taking place in the capital annually. The Ministry of Transport says it’s because people drive too fast, and they are now testing some new technology on the Don Muang tollway to slow down the city’s speed demons. In principle, it works by having sensors spaced along the road that detect the speed of a passing car by zooming in on the radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag on the dashboard. Anyone caught will be automatically fined B5,000 for a first-time offence and B10,000 for subsequent offences. All sounds great doesn’t it? Except there’s actually only 800 of these tags, which the Ministry gave to transport vans, in the hope that they’ll actually be honest enough to install them.