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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

do they get tickets in the mail?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Yeah, that's how it works. A lot of people just never pay them, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    That must impact their insurance even if they try to avoid the tickets though?

    Glad you got cameras for your bus!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Most automated camera tickets for buses, red lights, or speeding only result in municipal fines and no insurance complications. The camera can reliably get the lisence plate but the tech and bureaucracy isn't ready to prove who was driving each car.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Do people in the US just get away with not paying tickets?

    Over here, if you don't pay fines, it will get escalated until the point of seizure, and if you have nothing else to seize, they will take your car.

    Not paying isn't really an option.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Apparently, the issue with mail-in tickets specifically is that while the camera can catch the license plate number, it can't really prove who was driving the car. So whereas an in-person ticket from a cop for passing a school bus will result in points on your license, a mail-in ticket from a camera like this won't. The same problem applies to people that just don't pay the mail-in tickets - the state doesn't really know who to go after specifically.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's some weird legal loopholes.

    Over here, if you own a car you are responsible for who drives it. So if you get a mail-in ticket, you can either name the driver (and in case of a dispute prove that they were the driver) or you yourself are counted as the driver.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh, so you're saying your country does something better than my country? Take your xenophobia and stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.

    :D

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    mail-in ticket from a camera like this won’t

    Damn, imagine now if one could put such a camera anywhere and it would

    • either be moved away if below a threshold after a period, e.g. 1 week
    • or stay as long as it pays for itself then when it pays for a 2nd one, that new one would be randomly nearby
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