Oh, about that: China also randomly flies drones that patrols the highways. Of couse, that’s getting into the Authoritarian territory, and people in Democracies don’t like it, but it is an option.
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Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 20 hours ago
Traffic speed? If you know where all the speed cameras are, you could dodge them and hope there are no other police checking you.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
heavydust@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
IMHO it’s not authoritarian. Your speed in public space should be public. I struggle every day with fucking idiots in BMW or VW who almost hit my car because they can’t drive properly. I wouldn’t mind seeing them in jail if it meant some kind of control on my own speed.
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Ehh, for a bit Virginia tried enforcing them with aircraft.
It stopped because it was expensive, not because it was too authoritarian.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Manned Aircraft is much more expensive than drones, especially fuel cost. You can get like a DJI drone for like around $2000 (there are cheaper ones, but then you have to fly closer, since the cameras sucks on the cheaper ones) with good enough cameras to see the license plates by flying just hovering outside of the edge of the highway (so that, if it fails for some reason, it falls outside of the highway and doesn’t affect the traffic), and angle it towards the highway, and you’ll see all the license plates clearly, and with the help of the distance markers on the side of the road, determine their speed. As long as they don’t crash the drones, they are gonna last a long time, and if batteries are worn out, they can just get new ones. It’s not exactly “cheap”, but the government has a lot of budget. Getting like 20 of these can cover a lot of area. You don’t have to catch every one, just enough to make people think again before trying to speed. And randomly change the locations of patrol so there is no way to predict where they are being watched.
Also, they can get like some expensive ones, some cheap ones, mix and match. The cheaper ones will have trouble getting a clear license plate if it also have to keep a safe distance, but the people don’t know which drones are the expensive ones, get like 20 DJI Mavics, 40 DJI Mini 2 SE, mix them up. Think of like having real cameras mixed in with fake cameras.
I know it looks expensive, but just look at the police budget and it’s barely a dent. Cut out all of those “riot suppression” (aka: protest suppression) stuff from the budget and you got a lot of budget to work with.
As for manpower, redirect those writing tickets in the city, and teach them how to fly these drones. Parking violations have basically zero harm, fuck that shit, speeding has more potential to cause harm than parking violations.
heavydust@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
That’s the whole fucking point. Speed traps are only there to decrease the number of people killed, and we still have idiots complaining about it.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Speed traps don’t stop or prevent crime/accidents, they generate money. In fact, one could argue a police speed traps causes accidents when a group of cars in the front suddenly slam on their brakes.
heavydust@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
A group of speeding cars in the front suddenly slam on their brakes.
You are the problem. That’s why I would enjoy if all those fucking morons had their license removed for life and they had to take the bus. I have to avoid accidents every fucking day because of them and I don’t see why I have to suffer for that.