Motorists may be encouraged to film and report bad driving

This.

And also, snitches get stitches.

Take a look at any news article published on on any road incident in the country. There's always a standard line, that goes something like this:

Dashcam, CCTV and mobile phone footage is used in investigations and court cases up and down the country every single day. If there were GDPR issues, you can be sure that a defence solicitor or barrister would have brought it up by now, and the practice would cease. There simply isn't any GDPR issues with private individuals recording video in public places.

Fair number of cars and even buses driving through red lights too.

Yeah, very busy indeed

Strange reporting by the Times with their "motorists will be able to report...". Are motorists the only road users? Pandering to their car industry advertisers again.

I can guarantee you that there will be challenges to dashcam and CCTV footage in courts at some stage, just wait for someone with deep enough pockets to come along. I have not heard of anyone being convicted of anything on the back of dashcam footage yet. Also, plenty of private individuals have been asked to change the angle of their home CCTV setups as they have been filming outside of the boundaries of their property and onto the street (which is public, the last time I checked), all in the name of GDPR.

In any case, what is to stop someone deliberately making a nuisance of themselves on the road to bait people to do something stupid for the camera? There are plenty of idiots out there who would get their jollies from stitching up other motorists. I have read of instances of this in other countries that have snitch systesm in place, albeit usually with a "bounty".

Overall, I think this is just putting the onus of policing the traffic laws on to ordinary citizens and is covering up for the lack of investment in law enforcement in this country by successive governments. Besides, if someone is driving dangerously and you have it on camera, there is nothing stopping you from calling into the local garda station and reporting it right now anyway.

I doubt this will be implemented at all.

How specifically can anyone bait another driver? What would this look like? Driving at the actual speed limit maybe and watching all the "baited" drivers zooming past?

I've had drivers prosecuted for mobile phone use based on helmet camera footage. The current system is extremely cumbersome and very hard work.

Isn't this shower already snitching and reporting bad driving behavior at enormous cost to the state 😁

This isn't standard procedure with dashcam or CCTV footage. One Garda did try it on recently in an attempt to deter reporting. Unless they come with a warrant, they're not getting my camera.

i already do my bit in helping slow traffic down, by flashing oncoming drivers, every little helps!

again, every little helps, just like surveillance does with dashcams!

Those who can’t do teach I guess?