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The nice thing about these cars and all the dash cams we have from regular drives is that we can now tweak the laws to reflect reality. The robot cars should d

The nice thing about these cars and all the dash cams we have from regular drives is that we can now tweak the laws to reflect reality. The robot cars should do what they are supposed to and drivers or law makers should adjust.

dsfyu404ed 11y ago
Don't hold your breath. Those laws make a lot of money.
- CyberDildonics 11y ago
  Not as much as google
  - bnj 11y ago
    That might be true but I'd check first.
  - grogenaut 11y ago
    Random Calculation and I may be way off: http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-ferguson-missouri-court-fines-budget.html http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-fe... This is all fines and forfeitures but: St. Ann $3,609,972 $9,115,012 39.6 13,020 St. John $1,126,763 $3,835,573 29.4 6,517 Ferguson $2,571,190 $12,746,894 20.2 21,203 Bellefontaine Neighbors $749,252 $4,918,310 15.2 10,860 City of Florissant $2,966,669 $23,120,332 12.8 52,158 City of Berkeley $1,047,536 $8,680,716 12.1 8,978 Creve Coeur $1,847,864 $16,365,796 11.3 17,833 Maryland Heights $2,077,689 $22,820,884 9.1 27,472 Jennings $679,787 $7,737,693 8.8 14,712 Hazelwood $1,919,022 $23,809,852 8.1 25,703 Overland $582,292 $8,695,835 6.7 16,062 Richmond Heights $763,523 $12,109,281 6.3 8,603 Black Jack $123,355 $2,621,186 4.7 6,929 Clayton $1,027,932 $21,761,741 4.7 15,939 Olivette $283,289 $7,046,302 4.0 7,737 Bridgeton $445,171 $12,887,494 3.5 11,550 St. Louis City $11,022,000 $441,426,000 2.5 319,294 University City $586,281 $26,639,562 2.2 35,371 St. Louis County $4,397,769 $341,291,336 1.3 998,954 This totals up to around $35MM in Fines and Forfeitures in St. Louis (chosen due to Ferguson and all the articles around Mike Brown). Anyway WAG numbers this looks to be about 80% of the neighborhoods on the highways but it's got the 2 major players (city & county) so lets call it good. St. Louis is 21st (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_of_...) in Metro area size, so that gives us $755MM if everything was actually the size of St. Louis. However if I just add all the pops from 21 up I get 146MM people, so that means that if scaled linearly for St. Louis (which may or may not be right), we're talking $1.763MM, so around 1.75BN for the 21 biggest cities in the US. Easy to say that traffic stops in the US are well over a billion. Way over analysis but it shows scale of traffic income. If you read the first article linked, it points out the share of revenue this. It can be up to 36% of revenue for small municipalities.

dsfyu404ed 11y ago

Don't hold your breath. Those laws make a lot of money.

CyberDildonics 11y ago
Not as much as google
- bnj 11y ago
  That might be true but I'd check first.
- grogenaut 11y ago
  Random Calculation and I may be way off: http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-ferguson-missouri-court-fines-budget.html http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-fe... This is all fines and forfeitures but: St. Ann $3,609,972 $9,115,012 39.6 13,020 St. John $1,126,763 $3,835,573 29.4 6,517 Ferguson $2,571,190 $12,746,894 20.2 21,203 Bellefontaine Neighbors $749,252 $4,918,310 15.2 10,860 City of Florissant $2,966,669 $23,120,332 12.8 52,158 City of Berkeley $1,047,536 $8,680,716 12.1 8,978 Creve Coeur $1,847,864 $16,365,796 11.3 17,833 Maryland Heights $2,077,689 $22,820,884 9.1 27,472 Jennings $679,787 $7,737,693 8.8 14,712 Hazelwood $1,919,022 $23,809,852 8.1 25,703 Overland $582,292 $8,695,835 6.7 16,062 Richmond Heights $763,523 $12,109,281 6.3 8,603 Black Jack $123,355 $2,621,186 4.7 6,929 Clayton $1,027,932 $21,761,741 4.7 15,939 Olivette $283,289 $7,046,302 4.0 7,737 Bridgeton $445,171 $12,887,494 3.5 11,550 St. Louis City $11,022,000 $441,426,000 2.5 319,294 University City $586,281 $26,639,562 2.2 35,371 St. Louis County $4,397,769 $341,291,336 1.3 998,954 This totals up to around $35MM in Fines and Forfeitures in St. Louis (chosen due to Ferguson and all the articles around Mike Brown). Anyway WAG numbers this looks to be about 80% of the neighborhoods on the highways but it's got the 2 major players (city & county) so lets call it good. St. Louis is 21st (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_of_...) in Metro area size, so that gives us $755MM if everything was actually the size of St. Louis. However if I just add all the pops from 21 up I get 146MM people, so that means that if scaled linearly for St. Louis (which may or may not be right), we're talking $1.763MM, so around 1.75BN for the 21 biggest cities in the US. Easy to say that traffic stops in the US are well over a billion. Way over analysis but it shows scale of traffic income. If you read the first article linked, it points out the share of revenue this. It can be up to 36% of revenue for small municipalities.