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Re:Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be comi... by kelnos on Sunday September 01, 2024 @04:03AM (#41415132)
I don't actually disagree with some level of automated enforcement, but I do disagree with your phrasing/justification of it.

I just don't believe violating the law is always wrong, always bad, or always unsafe. While I would agree that most people are bad at risk assessment, and most people are not good drivers, the law should be flexible enough to deal with cases where breaking it is absolutely fine to do.

As a perhaps weird and imperfect analogy, killing another person is illegal... except when it isn't. The law recognizes that sometimes, even if in rare cases, killing another person is justified. This is why we have different words: "homicide" is sometimes not "murder" or even "manslaughter"; sometimes it's "self-defense".

Re:Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be comi... by johnisgood on Sunday September 01, 2024 @06:22AM (#41415693)
Or sometimes it is the death sentence.

I agree with you, FWIW.

Re:Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be comi... by try_the_bass on Sunday September 01, 2024 @10:10PM (#41422050)
I wholly agree that violating some laws is entirely justified.

However, I don't think any violation is justified by what more or less amounts to laziness and the desire to save an inconsequential amount of time.