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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole (futurism.com)
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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You what really works? Having a law on the books that plainly states the "the driver must be ticketed". And NOT the vehicle. So unless they pull the car over and hand the ticket to whoever is driving, they can't use cameras for that purpose.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Cool, so anyone who can afford a self driving car is immune to tickets and traffic citations. Very bourgeois.

    Ticketing a car is a good practice to avoid police interaction, which is the real danger in this country. The burden of proof still applies in court, so even if you did get a "phantom" ticket, they still have to prove you were in control of the vehicle at the time. I recently got a red light camera ticket on a rental thrown out because I showed i turned in the vehicle 4 hours before the time of the infraction. Goddamn Hertz tried to throw me under the bus. Always keep your receipts.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    You were lucky. What would have you done if you couldn't prove you no longer had possession of the car? If they had ticketed the driver directly, none of that could have happened to you. There would have been nothing for you to prove.This is why the state I live in has had that law requiring ticketing the actual driver and not the car decades before traffic cameras were even a thing.

    And since there are no self driving cars that can be commonly found on the roads today, that's a silly idea. And IF that time ever comes, someone is still going to need to be liable for that self driving car as it goes down the road. That software is going to be so locked down it must follow all laws without exception. Because the company will hold the liability.

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

    I literally say "save your receipts" at the end of my post and you come back with "well what if you couldn't prove it?"

    Thats what court is for.

    Are you saying we should implicitly trust what a cop says just because they happened to be around to write a ticket? What makes an officers testimony more reliable than a photograph or video? In my state, cops arent even allowed to pull people over for minor traffic infractions anymore because they cant seem to stop targeting black and brown people. Do you think that's somehow better than a speed camera or red light cam that doesnt care if the person driving is white or not?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Court is time consuming and expensive. You lose a day's wages, you get probably get fined anyway, and you may also need to pay a lawyer and court costs. So you assume everyone can afford that? White or Black?

    It must be nice to have that extra money.

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