[ed312]

The core issue is those red light cameras create a persistent database of who is where, which is then sold at a marginal cost to whoever wants it to advertise to/manipulate/track a population. Adding cameras everywhere invites a dystopian nightmare vs better urban design and occasional traffic police would solve the same problem.

[NegativeLatency]

Write the legislation so data is not retained/sold. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[rcpt]

"occasional traffic police" have proven ineffective at enforcing the law.

And biased humans deciding who to pull over is a lot more of a "dystopian nightmare" than cameras which eliminate those problems entirely https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2402547121

[whimsicalism]

i grew up somewhere that had red light cameras, the idea that they are selling the data is BS justification for diminished state capacity to enforce something really important.

e: for those downvoting, please point me to a single case of a municipality selling red light violation data if this is such a real concern