Ford has had a patent approved in the US that enables a police car to use a set of in-built sensors to detect speeding vehicles.

The patent outlines that the system would note the car violating the limit ‘by a large margin’, then capture images of recognisable identifying features of the speeding vehicle, such as a licence plate, make, model, paint colour, bodywork damage, according to the perhaps unlikely source of Top Gear.

The photographic evidence would then be transmitted to another police car, or a roadside unit to continue tracking the vehicle via the Internet of Things. At that point, the second police car would get instructions on its dash screen or via an audio beep through the car’s sound system.

Once alerted, the second car could activate the ‘blues-and-twos’ by way of a visual warning to the driver to slow down, or take other action with the information recorded.

(Pic – Ford)