Perfect enforcement has to come with immediate feedback
You may be amused/horrified to know that the UK police managed to send me a speeding ticket letter for a car I'd sold 6 months before the offence.
I only owned the car for a week, to sell on behalf of my partner who had moved abroad.
Eventually the camera manufacturers offer "easy setup" systems that dynamically adjust based on actual journey times. This works fine until the first office holiday, when the routine congestion is gone.
You don't even need AI for this. Its pretty basic.
It is similar to how air enforced speed limits are done. They just paint two lines on the highway. A plane overhead times your car between the lines.
And if it is, which it generally is, it means the speed limits are not set appropriately. But that point always seems to be overlooked.
holy shit, please tell me you're not actually naive enough to believe this. or hell, don't tell me. either way, the fact that you even thought this enough to write it down is exactly why we end up with surveillance states - you and a bunch of other rubes can honestly suggest that public action can be shaped toward a specific intent, rather than splintered by any attempts to force people to act a certain way, either by directive, coercion, or manipulation. I don't know if you just didn't give it enough consideration before writing it down, or if you are honestly unaware of human behavior, but either way the sentiment is fucking things up for a lot of people.
> exactly why we end up with surveillance states
Hate that. This is why I wrote that it looks like there is no privacy-preserving way to trap ALL speeding drivers, although I have been corrected on that specific part.
What I wanted to say is that I would love for road infractions to be fined all the time so that people would know that there is no free ride.
Like, to pick an example that's specifically speed-limit related, if more people really tried hard to do 25MPH (the marked speed limit on many of them) or under for the entire length of an interstate off-ramp, I think we'd be spending more money on brake pads and there'd be a lot more cars getting rear-ended. Sticking to that speed the entire length is silly and not very safe, and things work just fine without people doing that. Tons of other edge cases like that where you're technically breaking some law or another for a little while, but things work way better if you do. Plus practically every one of these laws has some kind of judgement-call clause that applies to modify it, and I don't want the people making those judgement calls to know that if they do what seems right to them in the moment, there's a very high likelihood they'll be hassled for it.
I otherwise agree.
You don't have to strip the driving licenses. You should impose a fine and not an extremely painful one for starters.
And then probably within less than a year the whole population will drive properly.
I think I'm in favor of indiscriminately fining everyone speeding at every camera, but I realize there is no privacy-preserving way to do it today thus I will be against it.
(I'm a driver and car lover who is never speeding)