There is also a new evil on the horizon, average speed cameras. Snap a photo at point A on a long road and see how long it takes to get to point B. If too quick, it generates a ticket. The UK ha them.
It's popular in Italy and the difference in speeds on highways that have it compared to those that don't is significant.
Personally I like average speed cameras. Everyone is going roughly the same speed, so there's much less tailgating.
You definitely don't have people zipping past you going 200km/h+ when you're trying to overtake a truck limited to 80km/h.
US and Canada… it’s just a ticket in the mail and as long as it’s paid, it effectively disappears.
Lots of blah blah about why they can’t do things the euro way. I love “privacy” as the excuse. You’re driving on a road with windows and how is it an issue if the car owner gets a picture of who was driving their car?
Imagine describing almost anything other than speed limits and suggesting automated camera based enforcement.
Drop a food wrapper on the ground? instant fine. Jaywalk? Instant fine.
If we can't be bothered to enforce our rules in person, the problem is with the rules not the methods of enforcement.
This is ridiculous whataboutism. We're not discussing robocop sending you to jail for dropping a banana peel. It's simply automatic enforcement of safety rules for operating your licensed, registered, private machinery in public spaces.
Douglas Maurer, at the time a computer science professor at George Washington University, once set the text of the Montgomery County, Maryland, standard camera ticket to music. The song was called "Forty Bucks", after the then cost.
