• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    Who’s got a higher salary, a cop or a camera?

    What’s more effective at changing bad driving behaviour, being caught in the moment and spending 10 min on the side ofbthe road getting a ticket, or getting a ticket in the mail a couple if weeks later when you’ve probably forgotten that you were even on that road at that time?

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      24 hours ago

      Then you tick the court date box and mail it back to them. Then two or three years later, you get a court date, so you dust off your form letter charter 11b challenge, send it off to all relevant parties, head down to the Winchester and wait for all of this to blow over.

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        3 hours ago

        My point is that does nothing to serve the stated goal of increasing safe driving.

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          3 hours ago

          Aware, and I fully agree. I am just adding to the point that not only does it fail to address the safety issue, but the massive uptick in tickets generated by this solution will inevitably spill over into an already overwhelmed court system, which will cost us economically and socially.