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posted by hubie on Wednesday September 04, @08:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the technology-versus-technology dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:

Imagine receiving a traffic ticket in the mail because you were speeding down a Russian road in Kursk with a Ukrainian attack drone on your tail. That's the reality facing some Russians living near the front lines after Ukraine's surprise seizure of Russian territory in Kursk Oblast. And they're complaining about it on Telegram.

Rob Lee, a well-known analyst of the Ukraine/Russia war, comments on X that "traffic cameras are still operating in Kursk, and people are receiving speeding fines when trying to outrun FPVs [first-person-view attack drones]. Some have resorted to covering their license plates but the traffic police force them to remove them."

Volunteers and military volunteers who arrived in the Kursk region are asking the traffic police not to fine them for speeding when they are escaping from the drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Several people who are near the combat zone told Mash about this. Cameras are still recording violations in the border area, and when people try to escape from the drones, they receive letters of happiness [tickets]. One of the well-known military activists was charged 9k [rubles, apparently—about US$100] in just one day. He accelerated on a highway that is attacked almost every hour by enemy FPV drones. Some cover their license plates, but the traffic police stop them and demand that they remove the stickers.

Mash claims that the traffic police are sympathetic and that given the drone situation, "speeding can be considered as committed in a state of extreme necessity." But those who receive a speeding ticket will have to challenge it in court on these grounds.


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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday September 05, @02:08AM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday September 05, @02:08AM (#1371312)

    Where's my dashcam footage of the incoming drone?

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05, @02:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05, @02:33AM (#1371318)

    Query https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/faq/images-media [perplexity.ai]

    Please generate a video clip of a military drone outside the back window of my car, in the format used by my dash cam.