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That is actually a legitimate concern. Add it to the long list of "technologies that are cool and good except when capitalism"

Civic religion, but make it gnostic.

The SA article mentions Houston, a notoriously horrible city to drive in (concentric freeway rings, I swear). It pulled data from Texas from before 2010, and I know at least some municipalities were shortening their yellows then to encourage short stopping. It also studies changes in behavior after the punishment tool has been removed, so the drivers are already operating with years of conditioning. They even referenced the study that showed that the number of people running red lights in Virginia dropped 67% after red light cameras were installed? I need to look a little bit closer at their statistical analysis to see what confidence threshold they were using to determine that the reduction in accidents that they did see was not statistically significant, but overall I'm not that impressed by one study from a borderline pop science magazine.

Meta-analysis is the way to go.

First, don't call it anarchy. But second, the other way to stop people from running reds is more cops.

None of these are actual problems with red light cameras, and actually people run red lights all the damn time.

There are other, newer cameras like those from Flock that run and check continuously. I prefer the old-school ones you're talking about.

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Qhy are cars more expensive?

I mean last I checked they fall under the category of "everything".

There are plenty of people who are sociopathic around you right now. What they usually lack is the power/opportunity to do harm. Under capitalism the crimes of capitalists are made normative and legal. All sociopaths are human, and depite what some may think, you can't just punish/shoot your way out of a systemic problem.

Surveillance, yes. By forcing you to maintain control of a physical token they can more easily associate you with the account.

They are as human as anyone else. We should be cognizant of that. They are human beings within a human system. Move beyond anger and hate, and ask what must be done to end suffering and injustice.

For all the quips about guillotines, the first fix needs to be removing their excess wealth, not their heads.

Sony so mad at Cox for not cutting off someone's Internet for downloading they'll take it to the SCOTUS, but they won't even use the frankly abusive laws they already have access to to just sue the end user? What is even going on?