What cities really need to do is use this for driver behavior around cyclists. Drivers have to maintain safe passing distances, but they often don’t. And drivers often drive incredibly aggressively, sometimes deliberately driving cyclists off the road. Cyclists should be able to wear cameras and issue tickets to drivers that violate the law. They should get a portion of the ticket revenue for their trouble.
Yeah, I would extend that to basically any vehicle-based crimes. It’s crazy how often people in cars blatantly break laws in dangerous ways, and the only thing preventing death is pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers keeping their heads on swivels.
If a private corporation can take a picture of your license plate and send an automated ticket for speeding, why can’t I submit dashcam footage of a car blowing through a stop sign in a residential neighborhood.
If i can report a truck driver for weaving through traffic to the DOT, why can’t I report a Nissan altima?
I wouldn’t even care if it was like a lower-level offense compared to being ticketed by a driver.
I’d love to have that in my residential area. Nothing more infuriating than having a car parked across a sidewalk forcing the pedestrian to go into the street to get by.
Everytime that cop parks illegally. Every single one.
Yeah, I’m sure officers pay the tickets themselves or the department with their pensions and suuuuurely not the taxpayers.
You ticket who you want, I’ll ticket who I think deserves it most.
basically if you take a photo of the violation it will go to the department that issues citations and it will be evaluated to determine if one should be sent. Way more scrutiny than the automated camera ones.
You mean they’ll check to see who the car belong to, and if they’re one of the people that is above the law.
I would trust the output of an automated system (excluding AI) more than the output of a human, so the difference in scrutiny makes sense. Although I’m not sure how good the automated system is, so I can’t say definitively that’s the case.
I don’t think anything like traffic tickets or such should be 100% automated. I don’t mind an automated filtering mechanism but I think every citation should be written out and signed by someone with all the required trainings and such and they should have viewed and verified that in their opinion a violation occured.
Oh for sure needs a human in the loop. I was just thinking of why this system would have more scrutiny by default.
Chicago? The city with the famously horrendous 75 year parking meter deal?
I was just thinking that! They’re literally giving free money to a private entity!
Think of the shareholder value this would create!
Neat! Do red light runners next! Also apply this to cops.
So can I issue parking tickets to cops?
If the citizens cannot rely on the government to enforce their laws the citizens will rise up and protect themselves.
People with good Photoshop skills are about to have a great way to get back to the people they don’t like
And get convicted of fraud when they fuck with someone who has a dashcam or similar alibi. Risky game
Calm down, it was primarily a joke comment.
Yeah I know, just don’t want people getting ideas
Oh man. Was kind of hoping the headline meant they were handing out official ticketing capability to every ordinary person.
Would have loved to see that in action.
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