We need the citizens ticket (I tried to look up who was suggesting this idea because I heard of it in a comedy sketch recently but I lowkey have become a stan after going through a couple of the logical/ethical/practical hangups to myself after hearing him out once [ it was towards the end of some routine I have no idea what about (I cannot remember if it was Josh Johnson or not, but it could have been) but anyway here’s the idea:
Every licensed (thank you spell check) driver would have the legal opportunity (neigh obligation, I say) to give out a ticket to another driver once per year. We could all have a state provided, or (less desirable, for security reasons) built-in, dash cams to all our cars, and could give out just a single traffic violation per year by reporting the plates and submitting a video (maybe make the dash cam able to bluetooth to one’s phone or something simple, so grannies could figure it out).
Another side benefit from the widespread opportunities for real daily “street” (lol) justice to be recognized and delivered to your fingertips while driving would be that there would be some appreciable portion of people who would inevitably hold onto their tickets throughout the year (you only get the one!), and driving during the winter (northern hemisphere logic, represent…) might become a lot safer (after a few years/decades go by, and people start to adapt to the concept) as roughly a quarter of all “citizen enforcers” (people who usually use their 1 ticket power) would probably begin to recognize the big opportunity for the end-of-year violations, especially if violations were worth some type of small reward for reporting, that still varied marginally based on the severity of the infraction similar to the penalty structures they employ against the “perpetrators” of the “illegal” actions.
asbestos@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Fair