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To certainty and swiftness, and to reduce burden on the police, I'd like to see an experiment: Cars that self-report for minor traffic infractions. Many new ca
by gausswho 4y ago
To certainty and swiftness, and to reduce burden on the police, I'd like to see an experiment:
Cars that self-report for minor traffic infractions. Many new cars already phone home various information useful for profit. You'd get a debrief every time you stopped your car and an email with the bill. Could be eased in with a forgiveness threshold for the first N offenses.
I would expect this to be effective, and very... unamerican.
- everforward 4y agoIt would definitely be interesting. My guess is that it wouldn't work if people were aware of which infractions could be automatically enforced. That's just a wild guess, though, I have nothing to back that up. One data point we do have is the "Broken windows theory" which NYC pursued. It's not exactly the same idea, but the implementation bears some similarities. It might be interesting to look at. I'm not going to speculate on it, because it's a contentious topic (disproportionately impacted poor people and minorities) and I'm frankly not well-versed enough to have a strong opinion either way.
- subarctic 4y agoReminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJYaXy5mmA8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJYaXy5mmA8
- gausswho 4y agoThat was an enjoyable short, thank you. I see why you were reminded of it. I would normally be wary of the nanny slippy slide we are on, but could make exception for irresponsible driving enforced by the vehicles themselves instead of fallible humans.