That might be a good thing. We have a lot of laws on the books that have outrageous penalties. Automobile speeding is an example. The fines are absolutely too p

That might be a good thing. We have a lot of laws on the books that have outrageous penalties. Automobile speeding is an example. The fines are absolutely too punitive for the risk, because the laws are designed to be enforced only sparingly and randomly. This makes sense in an age when sensors weren't good and weren't univeral, where cops had to trail you at speed to measure, and there weren't that many cops, really. It makes sense to have prohibitively large dollar amount fins to make up for very rare enforcement. Now that we can enforce speed limits pretty much 100% of the time, the fines need to be far, far smaller. If we enforce speeding laws all the time, everywhere, small dollar amount fines will serve to keep people from speeding. Since lowering fines is politically difficult ("My opponent is Soft On Crime!") it won't happen until a large fraction of the populace gets penalized and there's a voter referendum on the subject.