Future cameras won't necessarily be looking at your registration plate. They may be looking inside the car

You may not have to be stopped for your NCT problem to be detected. Imagine driving past a camera and receiving a notice afterwards because your vehicle didn’t have a valid NCT. That’s one of the possibilities specifically contemplated in Ireland’s National Safety Camera Strategy. Cameras may eventually be used to enforce invalid NCT, tax and insurance offences. That means the State won’t have to rely on Gardai to stop and prosecute you any more. Machines will. We seem to be on a slow march...

At the moment, most people probably think of driving without insurance as something discovered when a Garda stops a vehicle. But that will likely change.