Comment by dbg31415
17 hours ago
> I think it would be far more effective to make it easier to lose your license than it would be to make getting the license more challenging.
For your system to work, there would actually need to be cops watching traffic.
Since the pandemic, some cities just don't have as many police watching the streets as they used to.
For example, there is virtually no traffic enforcement in Austin now. You see the results with how much people speed now, and how awful some drivers behave on the road.
* Traffic enforcement capacity in Austin dropped significantly -- traffic citations fell about 55% between 2018–2022.
https://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Audito...
* As a result, speeding tickets, which once averaged 100 per day in 2017, dropped to about 10 per day by 2021 -- a 90% decrease.
https://www.kut.org/transportation/2022-02-24/austin-police-...
But why? Did they fire all the cops? Or did the cops just stop doing their jobs?
If only there were other ways of tracking and observing vehicle behavior. And some reliable way of identifying vehicles themselves. Or ways that we could automate this with computers to sort through.
But that's just science fiction. Cars are just going to be cars!
Kinda funny how the HN crowd can both decry and advocate for automated mass surveillance at the same time.
The HN crowd wouldn't see the tounge in cheek humor if it hit them in the face.
Vehicles have these things called license plates and take a license to operate. It's not dystopian mass surveillance or a technical challenge to have a camera assigning tickets for operating machinery dangerously in public spaces.
Kinda more dystopian the ads have better tracking of us than law enforcement.
It sounds like you have a problem with the police, ok? Step outside please.