I partially agree, but current monetary fines were set when enforcement was very manual and often lenient. Technically, in California, even speeding 1 MPH above

I partially agree, but current monetary fines were set when enforcement was very manual and often lenient. Technically, in California, even speeding 1 MPH above the speed limit can land you a $234 fine. If we had perfect AI systems that fined everyone every time they went 1 MPH over, most Californians would be broke. Certainly, most people break a dozen laws every time they drive to work. You can say that we should only restrict this to critical safety situations, but it becomes a very slippery slope once cities start to see that revenue coming in. In some situations, cities have contracted private companies who profit on every ticket their cameras issue - that creates a huge conflict of interest and incentive for them to keep tuning the cameras to catch more and more 'offenses'.