6 ms·
The less visibility police personally have on the car they're doing the reading on (e.g. half-mile away & at night), the less they're capable of introducing hum
by drusepth 6y ago
The less visibility police personally have on the car they're doing the reading on (e.g. half-mile away & at night), the less they're capable of introducing human bias (e.g. profiling) into who they scan and who they don't.
Seems like a win-win for enforcing the law and doing so equally on everyone.
- BoorishBears 6y agoI'm for automated speed enforcement (even as someone who speeds), but attaching it to a human undoes a lot of the good. Nothing is stopping the cop for going to a place with a certain demographic and setting up shop.
- Ekaros 6y agoShouldn't that be entire point of enforcing speed limits. Setting them up in dangerous locations where demographic in general is speeding?
- BoorishBears 6y agoWhy isn't the method used to find those places also subject to bias? Widespread speed enforcement needs to be almost algorithmic in it's spread. And that algorithm would have to be closely watched. Saying "put a speed camera at every stop light" would heavily police urban centers for example, but essentially exclude wealthy communities that sprawl out with miles of stop signs between multi-acre properties
- easytiger 6y agoAlso means they can't prove who was driving
- megablast 6y agoIt shouldn’t matter. Owner is liable until proven otherwise.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- scott_w 6y agoTo the people downvoting this: this is the U.K. law in this area. If you weren’t the driver, you must tell the police who was driving. If you don’t, you’re the one who gets the speeding ticket.
- ryanlol 6y agoThis is easily defeated by registering your car overseas, as is the case with most fast cars you see in London.
- brewdad 6y agoBrexit will put the kabosh on much of that I imagine. When the borders are closed to the rest of Europe it will be quite easy to make cars from unfriendly jurisdictions illegal on UK roads or to require the equivalent of a visa to bring a car registered in one of those uncooperative nations into the country.
- scott_w 6y agoUnlikely, as we lose access to potential sources of cooperation from the EU and we have a government in thrall to the dangerous driving lobby.
- t-writescode 6y agoIf this meant that we had reasonable speed limits in all areas based on current conditions, I might be more cool with that. We do not.