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Actually, don't most of the revenues from automated cameras go to vendors? I also remember some states tackled some of it by saying you couldn't get a speeding

• lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y ago
  > you couldn't get a speeding ticket for just 0-5 mph or maybe 0-9 mph over I assume it’s just psychology and people want to feel like they’re getting away with something but this is just the same effect as increasing the speed limit. But it makes me wonder if the point is to have lower posted limits and therefore lower above-the-limit-but-legally cruising speeds. It’s very ass backwards but I’ll take whatever works.
• jessriedel 2y ago
  > Actually, don't most of the revenues from automated cameras go to vendors? Often yes. (I can't easily dig up broad data, but there are certainly individual examples where this is the case.) My proposal still helps here though. These cities are willing to pay a bunch to the vendors because the remainder of revenue that they keep is "free". (It seems the cities often sign a sweetheart deal where the cities have their admin costs recouped first and then the vendors keep the vast majority of the revenue thereafter.) But if the cities can't keep any money, they don't have much incentive to send all this money to the vendors; it just pisses off their citizens.