That's fine, so long as the limit is set to 0MPH. Anyone getting that many speeding tickets shouldn't be driving.
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There's a points based system here and you would definitely be in suspended license stage at 16 tickets in a year. It's a crazy amount.
Drivers who get more than 16 speeding tickets in a year should get a restraining order where they can't come closer than 500 feet to any car.
Lol, exile form NYC, love it.
More than 16 tickets in a year should get your licence revoked, what the hell are you guys doing up there?
There's a cop there that has racked up something like 560 tickets in the last 4 or 5 years. I just watched a YouTube video about it a few days ago. Some news channel was reviewing the most ticketed license plates in the city and discovered it.
Not sure if I remember wrong but I thought massive chunk were in fact police.
Lot of capital to be extracted by issuing tickets, not so much by revoking licenses
Note that these speed camera "tickets" are different than normal tickets. No cop is pulling them over and issuing a citation to the driver directly. It's the car that is cited, and usually the registered owner ends up having to pay the fine. But since they can't prove who is driving it, they can't issue the same type of conventional ticket. (And that's also why the fine is so low -- make it much higher and people will flood the courts trying to get out of it by saying they weren't driving it at the time).
And that's why they can't just suspend someone's license instead. Because they can't tell who is driving in the picture, and even if someone gets their license suspended, they might just keep driving as long as they don't get pulled over.
I generally don't like technical solutions to social problems. Our cars are getting too smart for their own good anyway. The car companies are putting all this telemetry in there, and some have been recently caught selling your driving history to insurance companies. I definitely don't want the government punishing people based on cameras they can't see. We could decide "hey, why not let the government install nannys into the cars of people who speed". But then there's not much of a stretch between that and having the government give everyone a nanny.
Here in austrlaia, the fine goes to the owner unless they make a declaration as to who was actually driving.
You get penalty points on your licence for speeding and other offences. Get enough points in a period and you lose your licence.
At high risk times, like public holiday weekends, where lots of people travel, there are double points.
Yeah, but we're talking about the USA, where everything is stupid.
They're building to a place where they could do this remotely and that's ripe for abuses of power. The AI will see that your social karma is low and use parallel construction to develop a reason for suspending your driving privileges effective immediately. Appealing it will probably involve talking to an endless string of clankers on the phone. Ultimately there will be no humans in the chain to accept any kind of responsibility.
Or they change the law so that it doesn't matter who was driving. Unless it was stolen, the owner could still be held responsible. Stop the nonsense
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It's funny, I read a separate article on Lemmy earlier this week about the worst traffic offender in NYC actually being a NYPD cop...
We have a points system here in the UK, first offence you'll typically be offered re-education if it's only minor. After that, if you don't contest a minor offence it's a £100 fine, plus costs, plus 3 points on your license per offence. If you contest it and lose, or it's such a major offence that you get taken straight to court, you'll be fined a percentage of your weekly income (depending on how bad it was), court costs and surcharges, and extra points. 12 points in three years is called "totting-up" and you automatically get your license revoked, so as an absolute maximum you can get away with four speeding tickets in three years. Any more than that, and you lose your license. Or if you're a new driver, if you get 6 points in the first two years you have to start over with taking your driving tests again.
All this to say... someone getting 16 speeding tickets and not having their license taken away is baffling to me.
Every state is different - while I’m not sure how mine handles multiple speeding tickets, ask me how I know that 30 mph over counts as a major accident on your insurance. At that point, the cost of the ticket is almost irrelevant (approaching a toll both on a highway, when I passed the new speed sign I hadn’t yet slowed enough, the assholes. If they looked at my speed like 50’ later…).
Anyhow I have to expect it’s more “good old boy” corruption, where at each step he gets dismissed or charge reduced
Edit: oh, speed camera infractions. I believe those can’t be criminal since you have the right to face your accuser.
Start with that one cop in that city that drives a pickup and has gotten hundreds of tickets. Then we’ll talk.
Why not an exponentially growing fine? A $10 ticket (honest mistake) doubled 16 times makes it $650k
Honestly it should be a % of your yearly income. I remember a dude in Europe got a million euro fine or some shit
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16 speeding tickets in a year is fucking insane. I think in many states you would have enough points to lose your license.
I've been driving for 35 years, I've had 2 speeding tickets.
I don't drove slow I just know where Copa like to sit.
Cool. Fuck cars. Take transit in NYC.
Nobody drives in nyc because there’s too much traffic
Exactly, how does one even speed there
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Ok but how are they going to deal with the fact that LEO in their personal civilian cars are the ones speeding and going through red lights with impunity?
Infuriating because 16 is a number too high, right?
This is coming from the same legislators who want to restrict 3d printing
New York is really doing a good job of leading us into a dystopian hellscape
Those are two very different things, and more than one ticket per month over the course of a year (and those are just the times you get caught) is more than generous.
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