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by jacquesm 105 days ago
Speed cameras are a source of income, they are not for enforcement or safety.
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My understanding is this varies wildly by jurisdiction.

But it doesn't matter to my point: assume it's just about income, put the cameras everywhere, how fast does it make driving unaffordable?

Same for anything with a fine, e.g. would littering fines be enough to replace taxation, but in a weird way that also puts the messiest subset of the population into life-long bankruptcy to pay those fines?

(Of course, current AI is nowhere near good enough for this, if it was those Amazon "AI-powered" "cashier-free" shops wouldn't have secretly been done by humans watching CCTV).

Two things can be true at once