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I'm not generally in favor of obeying rules but enforcing them on 2+ tons of metal that people drive around is kinda where I start being in favor. With large dangerous objects should come some semblance of responsibility and social demand.
Or if we're shitposting, every one of those cars contains at least 10k in scrap metal.
If they're just enforcing speeding rules, then I'm all for it. But something tells me the speed limit enforcement is an ancillary side effect of them keeping a record of every car that passes the thing and when.
It in incentivizes lowering speed limits below what the actual reasonable speed is for an area to increase profits. There are literally speed trap towns where their largest revenue stream comes from their speed traps.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/12/26/police-speeding-traffic-tickets-revenue-civil-rights/71970613007/
Funny that you would use an article about cops writing tickets to argue that speed cameras are bad. We all agree that speed traps suck and are wrong, but nothing in your article is about the topic, unattended speed cameras, and it mentions nothing of them doing anything shady, outside of aggressive enforcement.
In California speed limits are set by survey to the 85th percentile of speeds. I think it's a decent approach, it means the vast majority of people are driving at this speed.
Lowering speed limits is a good thing always.
15mph on freeways, 1mph on city streets. Go!
Yes. Let's make cars useless and make our planet a better place. Go!
Fair enough, I can get behind that.