cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/28652528
A little over a decade ago I slid to an icy stop as the yellow light came on in a turn only lane, about an hour north of Seattle. The guy in front of me tried to stop and ended up going through the intersection as the light turned red. I got a ticket with a photo of the intersection, but you could clearly see my car was stopped a good four feet behind of the line. It was dismissed, but I was pretty mad that I even had to fight that.
I don’t know if the tech has improved or if they have people double checking tickets before they are issued now, but I can’t say my experience made me feel positive about the automated ticket system lol
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Mix an increasingly affordable and easy implementation of nanny-state technology to a shift towards tyrannical governance, and things will likely start getting ugly fast.
altphoto@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
I would prefer to be judged by a person. I truly hate cars but here in the general Seattle area if you don’t have a car you just can’t function. So, say you are late to work every day but you blow thru every intersection to get to work not too late, just late. That’s obviously a you problem and one day it will be someone getting hit by you and you end up in jail. But if you’re just a random person or a visitor to the city, you’ll get a ticket by surprise one day.
kalpol@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
There is also a complete lack of segregation of duties with these things. The companies that install, configure, and maintain also get a cut of the income. This is really bad.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
As someone likely to be profiled by cops, I like the concept of objectivity with automated patrolling, but this comes at such an overbearing scalability and privacy violation that it’s still the greater evil. I just hope automated driving becomes the norm soon enough to obviate the need for this. That comes at a cost too, but the lives saved from that will be on the order of what some vaccines have accomplished and the efficiency with regards to time and energy all add up to make that a worthwhile change in my book.