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Originally Posted by HarryT
In the UK, however, you can't get away with a driving offence by saying "I don't know who was driving the car at the time". Unless you can show that someone else actually WAS driving then the responsibility (and the punishment) will be imposed on the registered keeper of the vehicle. Your vehicle, your responsibility.
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I know that in the US in some location the claim is against the car, not the driver. Meaning the car will be impounded when the fines are not paid and nobody cares who drove it. Which has led to some problems. People who owed more in fines than the car was worth could just let the police take the vehicle and "weasel" out of part of what they owe.
In Germany and in California (back when I lived there - I have no idea how it is today) the claim was against the driver. Which means the police have to know who the driver was. Today all cameras take pictures from the front, so that you can clearly see the face.
Anyway, it was just an example of a system similar to what could be implemented here.