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Two wrongs don't make a right. 19 Wrongs don't make it right either.
This reminds me of that science fiction...book? movie? about "pre-crime". Remember that, where in some dark future time you can be convicted of a crime based on your profile and your propensity/predictability for committing that crime.
These speed cameras are a slippery slope that's not going anywhere good. Think about it. A machine is your accuser---not an eye witness. So who do you cross-examine? The camera maintenance person?
Also, if speed limits aren't set at 85th percentile, it is basically Entrapment.
I'm all for speed limits set appropriately based on sound traffic engineering principles. Heck, I'd rather the speed limit be set at 90 and ticket anyone going 91. Why allow leeway? The maximum speed is the maximum speed; why is it so hard for people to realize that by definition, that means the highest speed that you can go? You can get a ticket in CA for going 65.0000001 MPH as it currently stands. Real maximum speed limits would be an improvement.
I wouldn't include evil, because that implies that the insurance companies are including a moral component in their strategy, or some agenda toward social experimentation. Their strategy is very unemotional in fact. It is amoral and asocial, not immoral. They don't CARE if you win sometimes and they lose sometimes...they only care that they win most of the time and have black ink at the end of the year. They don't want to punish you, nor do they revel in it--they just want to make money.
in VA, the legislature & courts have decided to jail people for a few days if they get bagged driving above 81 (?) mph on the highway.
... detectors are illegal in VA, and the cops have detector-detectors. yet i have driven past many of them while operating my V1. never faster than 75 however!
Btw, reminds me that local city cops used to allow one day per year for people to hoon & do burnouts along a city block. I'm not sure they do it any more, gotta be liability concerns, a tire could shred and piece could fly off and nearly hit a old lady having lunch (i've seen this happen next to I-95, truck-tire shredded and landed one foot from coworker sitting at picnic table).
"We already have photo radar systems that automatically snap photos of cars that are speeding, but what if a vehicle is being too noisy? This could include cars with loud stereos, illegal mufflers, or horns that get honked just a little too often. "
Hornet system aims to sting noisy drivers (gizmag.com)
Orwell must be laughing now. I expect it to be in Britain first.
Federal judge declares Chicago red light camera program constitutional, tosses class action vs city, vendors (cookcountyrecord.com)
(/sarc)
In all that 1984 style soon to be real in Britain blather, I am most concerned about some untouchable bureaucrat determining when a horn should be used.
Terrible argument. Judges like this that rubber stamp the loss of Constitutional rights should be removed. Then again, it seems like Republican party doesn't mind candidates that want to spy on everyone all of the time and maintain record databases on everyone all of the time.
For my money and votes, the best candidates are the ones that believe in more than just the 2nd Amendment.
I like the direct link between government and pseudo-private industry the most. Just an open door for corruption.