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Get the Feeling You're Being Watched? If You're Driving, You Just Might Be
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<blockquote data-quote="Chad Fielder" data-source="post: 853764" data-attributes="member: 55841"><p>There was a time I dreaded some 1984ish computer/satellite managed driving system for vehicles but reading about setups like speed trap cameras or variable yellow light times I'm starting to wish for it. I know its a sci-fi sort of thing but there has been some testing of localized systems for metro public transit. It will happen someday for individual vehicles. Unless the local dons err.. government officials decide they cant part with their revenue.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Personally I would love to see the "revenue" side of monitoring traffic be cut off entirely if we're to be boxed in so tight that there's nothing unique about driving. Just put us in a box with windows and roll us there.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Don't get me wrong, blatant red light violations or gross speeding violations (20+ over) and the like should be punished. My big issue is that there's just no room for judgment calls with these cameras. Get caught driving in a rain storm when its obviously better to coast through a yellow just as it turns red (vs locking it down and risking a nasty wreck) and there's no way of saying it was safer to drive on through. You'll be judged on a moment in time with no context whatsoever. Granted you dont really get that now but at least a local officer can make his own judgment call.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Generally though, not much burns me up more than to read about some government entity (usually some city council with an impossible budget situation) counting on traffic violation "revenue". To top it off with them being able to do it without even paying an officer to be the bad guy in person makes it even worse. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The people that really win with this camera thing are the insurance companies. They'll be able to create a whole new risk matrix to gouge people with. Theyll probably get the photo and violation info before you receive it in the mail. Most of us will have to go to the meager liability the law says we have to have; at least those that havent already dropped anything closely resembling full coverage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chad Fielder, post: 853764, member: 55841"] There was a time I dreaded some 1984ish computer/satellite managed driving system for vehicles but reading about setups like speed trap cameras or variable yellow light times I'm starting to wish for it. I know its a sci-fi sort of thing but there has been some testing of localized systems for metro public transit. It will happen someday for individual vehicles. Unless the local dons err.. government officials decide they cant part with their revenue. Personally I would love to see the "revenue" side of monitoring traffic be cut off entirely if we're to be boxed in so tight that there's nothing unique about driving. Just put us in a box with windows and roll us there. Don't get me wrong, blatant red light violations or gross speeding violations (20+ over) and the like should be punished. My big issue is that there's just no room for judgment calls with these cameras. Get caught driving in a rain storm when its obviously better to coast through a yellow just as it turns red (vs locking it down and risking a nasty wreck) and there's no way of saying it was safer to drive on through. You'll be judged on a moment in time with no context whatsoever. Granted you dont really get that now but at least a local officer can make his own judgment call. Generally though, not much burns me up more than to read about some government entity (usually some city council with an impossible budget situation) counting on traffic violation "revenue". To top it off with them being able to do it without even paying an officer to be the bad guy in person makes it even worse. The people that really win with this camera thing are the insurance companies. They'll be able to create a whole new risk matrix to gouge people with. Theyll probably get the photo and violation info before you receive it in the mail. Most of us will have to go to the meager liability the law says we have to have; at least those that havent already dropped anything closely resembling full coverage. [/QUOTE]
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