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French speedcam fines don't go to the police department or the municipality, they go to the interior ministry and mostly fund infrastructure maintenance (includ
by seszett 8y ago
French speedcam fines don't go to the police department or the municipality, they go to the interior ministry and mostly fund infrastructure maintenance (including the speedcams themselves).
- coldtea 8y ago>(including the speedcams themselves). So they fines are a feedback-style job security enabler for the people at the department responsible for the speedcams.
- seszett 8y agoOr you can see them as security measures that only cost money to those who break the rules, meaning they are essentially free to law-abiding citizens.
- coldtea 8y agoYou missed the part that the rules are BS, and the lights rigged to produce fines -- and in some cases even causing accidents rather than prevent them? There have been lots of scandals over the years and I even gave some links...
- Karunamon 8y agoWe’ve been talking speed cameras here, not lights. Light cams and associated rigging is an entirely different problem with different implications. Meanwhile, if you keep the little needle on your speedometer under what the last sign said, you’ll be fine. Pretty damn hard to rig that.
- seszett 8y agoI'm not sure which lights you are talking about, and none of your links are about French speedcams.