Well, Orwell isn't to be read as a prescriptive list of things you can't do. The problem with automated law enforcement is quite simple: It operates in the gap

Well, Orwell isn't to be read as a prescriptive list of things you can't do. The problem with automated law enforcement is quite simple: It operates in the gap between that which is dangerous enough that society decides to punish offenders, yet not dangerous enough that society needs to intervene to make the offender stop offending. That coupled with the perverse incentives of fines being a source of revenue, and you have a recipe for law enforcement gone wrong. Also, not explicitly linked to automated LE, but emphasised by it, is the graduation away from discretion in driving. Many drivers tend to forget that the fastest you can ever drive, anywhere, is as fast as is responsible. Even on German autobahns with no speed limit, you can get a steep ticket for going too fast - this is at the discretion of a police officer and ultimately the courts. Automated LE wipes out that discretion in favour of determinism. > As long as the process is transparent (i.e. everyone knows about it and the algorithms are open source) I don't see a problem with that at all. Well, you have near perfect empirical evidence to expect that won't be the case.