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My wife was driving in the carpool lane with our infant daughter asleep in a car seat covered by a blanket to keep the sun off of her. A cop pulled her over fo
by panarky 7y ago
My wife was driving in the carpool lane with our infant daughter asleep in a car seat covered by a blanket to keep the sun off of her.
A cop pulled her over for illegal use of the carpool lane. It's a completely understandable error since the car appeared from the outside to have only one occupant.
The point is that errors happen with all methods of enforcement. But when we talk about automated systems, somehow the standard is set much higher, so even one driver falsely accused is too much.
Since the tradeoff to minimizing false positives is greater injury and death, it matters that we get it right.
- ctrl-j 7y agoI bet the cop didn't give her a ticket though. He was able to assess the situation and recognize your wife was not in violation of the law. If this system were backed by some sort of flag-and-review system, then this man wouldn't have received a ticket for scratching his face.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y agoThe bar isn't higher for machines. If anything it seems lower. If the cop had given your wife a ticket after seeing that your daughter was there, that would be crazy.