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Have you ever driven on a busy road way before? Police cannot, and arguably should not have the ability to, monitor drivers 100% of the time. For the most part

Have you ever driven on a busy road way before? Police cannot, and arguably should not have the ability to, monitor drivers 100% of the time. For the most part they are forced to resort to what can be considered scare tactics just to place the idea in driver's heads that they might be caught. The idea that doubling, tripling, quadrupling, or whatever is necessary, police activity will enable autonomous drivers is absurd.

wongarsu 10y ago
>Police cannot, and arguably should not have the ability to, monitor drivers 100% of the time. Police can't catch 100% of any violation or crime, and they don't have to. We can't completely prevent any behaviour, but we can reduce it to the desired level with the right combination of risk of punishment and severity of punishment. Right now the risk of punishment for non-emergency honking is so close to zero that most drivers seem to have forgotten that it's illegal at all.
- throwaway729 10y ago
  > most drivers seem to have forgotten that it's illegal at all And many police officers, for that matter...
throwaway729 10y ago
> Have you ever driven on a busy road way before? Yes, on a regular basis. Have you ever tried reporting a dangerous or aggressive driver to the police? > Police cannot, and arguably should not have the ability to, monitor drivers 100% of the time They should, and ability is only a matter of time. There is no right to being an asshole in a large, loud, dangerous machine. > For the most part they are forced to resort to what can be considered scare tactics just to place the idea in driver's heads that they might be caught. For the most part, they do nothing at all. > The idea that doubling, tripling, quadrupling, or whatever is necessary, police activity will enable autonomous drivers is absurd. You don't need to increase police activity at all. Police just need to care and process evidence provided by autonomous vehicle companies (or, hell, by citizens).
- hx87 10y ago
  > You don't need to increase police activity at all. Police just need to care and process evidence provided by autonomous vehicle companies (or, hell, by citizens). We can give them (especially the rural and small-town ones) one hell of an incentive by banning speed limit enforcement, or at least confiscating all revenue from speeding tickets, while leaving enforcement of other infractions unencumbered.

wongarsu 10y ago

>Police cannot, and arguably should not have the ability to, monitor drivers 100% of the time. Police can't catch 100% of any violation or crime, and they don't have to. We can't completely prevent any behaviour, but we can reduce it to the desired level with the right combination of risk of punishment and severity of punishment. Right now the risk of punishment for non-emergency honking is so close to zero that most drivers seem to have forgotten that it's illegal at all.

throwaway729 10y ago
> most drivers seem to have forgotten that it's illegal at all And many police officers, for that matter...

throwaway729 10y ago

> Have you ever driven on a busy road way before? Yes, on a regular basis. Have you ever tried reporting a dangerous or aggressive driver to the police? > Police cannot, and arguably should not have the ability to, monitor drivers 100% of the time They should, and ability is only a matter of time. There is no right to being an asshole in a large, loud, dangerous machine. > For the most part they are forced to resort to what can be considered scare tactics just to place the idea in driver's heads that they might be caught. For the most part, they do nothing at all. > The idea that doubling, tripling, quadrupling, or whatever is necessary, police activity will enable autonomous drivers is absurd. You don't need to increase police activity at all. Police just need to care and process evidence provided by autonomous vehicle companies (or, hell, by citizens).

hx87 10y ago
> You don't need to increase police activity at all. Police just need to care and process evidence provided by autonomous vehicle companies (or, hell, by citizens). We can give them (especially the rural and small-town ones) one hell of an incentive by banning speed limit enforcement, or at least confiscating all revenue from speeding tickets, while leaving enforcement of other infractions unencumbered.