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Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoYeah. Even in the US many municipalities outsource almost the entire ticketing process to the company selling the cameras, and the company collects a (usually outsized) percentage of the fees. So the company has the incentive to use whatever shady tactics to increase ticketing infraction events. This could be by changing the camera angle slightly to falsely get plates from yellow throughers or sometimes they change light timing itself to increase ticketing events…
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I was talking about Finns in Finland complaining about speed cameras.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I would just assumed because they are using the same Swedish company (Sensys Gatso) that does profit sharing agreements with municipalities in the US, that the agreement is the same.
I can’t seem to find the finnish contract award details, so I can’t confirm that they are. I am thinking now, that their might be a chance that they aren’t, given how extreme finnish traffic violation costs can be (% of salary).
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
If you’re going to issue fines for speeding, this is the most just way to do it though.
We’ll never do that in the US because we hate the poor.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s only % of salary (day fines) for more severe offenses, in this case for really speeding. Normal speeding tickets are just a set sum.
Here’s a pic showing the amounts. It has the speed limit, how much over the limit you were and how much you end up paying as a fine. Bottom one is “regardless of the limit” and “over 20 km/h”, so whenever you go over by over 20 km/h, you pay “day fines”.
speeding ticket prices
mob@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
The minimum cost of a speeding ticket in Finland is €125 which is closer to an average American speeding ticket, not the minimum.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It seems like a fairly risky assumption to make.