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It won't work while you have aggressive drivers messing with the system. There's a legal solution - create cameras that detect tailgaters, and fine them. That
by wisty 15y ago
It won't work while you have aggressive drivers messing with the system.
There's a legal solution - create cameras that detect tailgaters, and fine them. That will encourage people to leave more space, which will give everyone more room to maneuver. Country-town car spacing = country town speeds, not the ~10mph you get in city centers.
- john_b 15y agoI think a technical solution for a technical problem is better than a legal solution to a technical problem, especially since the hardware and infrastructure for such a widespread camera system (not to mention the associated state bureaucracy that would be required to operate it and process the fines) would be unavoidably expensive. Even if it were somehow cheap and simple, monitoring every piece of road would be impossible. And then you would need to legally define "tailgating" and correct for edge cases such as when the person in front brakes suddenly, but the camera still sees it as tailgating.