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New York Lawmakers Pass ‘Stop Super Speeders’ Proposal Reining In The Most-Reckless Drivers (empire.streetsblog.org)
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[–] 31 points 5 months ago (5 children)

The bill allows New York City to require the speed governor for the cars of traffic scofflaws who incur school zone speed camera violations 16 times or more in 12 months. The city would create and run the pilot program.

What? Why do they have licenses still?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Camera-based violations are typically civil instead of criminal. AKA pay fines instead of getting points on your license or facing jail time.

    If you want the jet-black cynical take, this is because repeat offenders are better for the municipal budget than turning them into non-drivers.

    A more measured take is that it's very hard to prove who was driving just based on these cameras, so while the registered owner can be civilly responsible for what their vehicle did, it's a bigger challenge and expense to prove that they're criminally responsible.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    In Australia we have a point system, each driving offence (whether caught by a cop or a robot) deducts points, reach zero points and you lose your driver's licence

    People on a handful of points become very careful

    Best of all money won't save you

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    Best of all money won't save you

    that is NOT true, get a business owned car, they pay a fine only, no points.

    Fine based system like Australias are designed to punish poor people, if not we'd be using the Finnish system that's linked to your earnings.

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