Too many people drive intentionally reckless and endanger other drivers and joggers, bicyclists etc.
The problem is machine have no mercy - 35mph is 35, whereas a cop may know cars drift in speed a little due to driver's watching the road and conditions - not staring at the speedometer. Running red lights on a short cycle, a cop can watch the cycle and say yes or no it was a signal issue or not, a bot just writes the ticket.
Still if people where not dangerous to the general public there would be no need for even cops. Rules and laws are there to protect society from the few self centered and empowered self elite who feel the laws do not apply to them.
For the ones who think it is just for the money, they are the self centered ones, check the list of dead children caused from these taxpaying self elite.What are your thoughts on automatic traffic tickets, issued by cameras and robots for moving violations?
There's no substitute for an actual human Peace Officer (as opposed to revenuers) for traffic safety. While I don't mind so much cameras for red light enforcement, the speed trap scameras are just another revenue scheme used by officials and their corporate sponsors to stuff the revenue box.
Additionally there's plenty of evidence that the speed trap scameras cause more crashes because people learn that there isn't an actual officer to chase them, so they drive even faster between the scameras then jam on their brakes right before the trap zone, causing more crashes.What are your thoughts on automatic traffic tickets, issued by cameras and robots for moving violations?
I think they are good in theory, but practically there are many downfalls, since they are just machines, and can't take into account the actual traffic/environmental situation. For example. I got a red light ticket one time, but the stop line was almost complete worn off, there was snow/ice all over the road, and it was dark, so according to the traffic camera my front bumper crossed the stop line by a few inches, but I find it ridiculous considering the weather and road condition.
I think they should stick to just speed cameras...I have noticed traffic slows down considerably in speed camera areas. Although this could also have problems of it's own...imagine if you had to accelerate to avoid a collision or getting rear-ended...What are your thoughts on automatic traffic tickets, issued by cameras and robots for moving violations?
I don't think they are particularly just. There is no evaluation if a given situation. Sometimes a vehicle gets stuck in an intersection thru no fault of the driver due to any number of reasons and the camera will simply issue the ticket whereas an officer could make an individual judgement.
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