The problem is that people start making/enforcing traffic safety rules not to improve safety but to increase revenue. Things like setting up speed traps where y

The problem is that people start making/enforcing traffic safety rules not to improve safety but to increase revenue. Things like setting up speed traps where you're almost guaranteed to be going over a certain speed limit. You also have messes like people getting tickets way over their ability to pay, leading to lots of issues for the driver. It's not that the driver didn't break a rule, but the best thing for society would be to _not_ throw someone in jail for the crime of not having $200 for a ticket. Stuff like ticketing quotas also add perverse incentives for police to try and generate arrests or ticketable situations. Combined with unfortunate "benefit of the doubt" issues, you get things like police planting drugs on people to arrest them. Think about it! Police giving themselves stuff to do by planting drugs on people during traffic stops. What sort of incentive structure leads to this? Full disclosure: I do think lots of people complain about traffic rules for pretty selfish "I'm the only safe driver" reasons. But I do think there's also lots of real issues in this system. Both sides can be wrong!