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No, I just haven't seen any evidence red light cameras are effective.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/red-light-cameras-may-not-make-streets-safer/
Also I don't like everything being under camera surveillance, so I need a strong justification to be fine with more of it
Red light cameras may not be effective at making streets safer. But, they're nearly 100% effective at making people who run red lights pay fines. The first one would be amazing, but I'm happy to settle for the second one.
You sound like someone who can likes rich people getting away with just paying fines for being rich assholes
And you sound like someone who wants to be able to run red lights without consequences.
No, I just want traffic lights enforced without being in a surveilance state, but the better solution is just to make more streets illegal to have cars instead of adding lights, and add bus routes instead
But people will be lazy and say eh, surveilance state is good enough for me since Im not affected! More buses. Fewer cars. Fewer lights necessary and fewer surveliance cameras necessary.
Those cameras only activate when people run a red light, right? And if they don't, that's the problem that should be fixed, not taking down the whole thing instead. People following the rules and not endanger others is kinda a good thing.
Sure guy.
The problem is not the cameras then, but the fines. Should be proportional to net worth
we both know thatll never happen in america, and until then its a law for poors only, as designed. Its continued existence only affects poor people
Cameras specifically to catch people running red-lights will only take a photo when a car crosses a red light rather than run continuously.
They'll only have you "under surveillance" if and when you're breaking the law by running a red light.
So if you're so worried about "surveillance" from those cameras, don't run red-lights.
There are other, newer cameras like those from Flock that run and check continuously. I prefer the old-school ones you're talking about.
Yeah, those are a massive, MASSIVE concern when it comes to pervasive surveillance.
When I lived in the UK it already had a similar thing in the form of license-plate-reading cameras all over the place (the UK is even a biggest civil society surveillance dystopia than the US, or at least it used to be but maybe the US has caught up with it).
When driving in anywhere but dirt roads in such a country you absolutelly are almost constantly under surveillance and that shit is going into a database were it will stay forever and ever.
Redlight cameras, however, need not include "always on" or even "license plate reading" features.
Yeah, the old ones are fine, but they're just turning into mass surveillance tools now