Mildly Infuriating

16 speeding tickets in a year is fucking insane. I think in many states you would have enough points to lose your license.

Normal countries use a point system for drivers licenses.

Just take their fucking license away, jesus

More than 16 tickets in a year should get your licence revoked, what the hell are you guys doing up there?

Start with that one cop in that city that drives a pickup and has gotten hundreds of tickets. Then we’ll talk.

We have a points system here in the UK, first offence you'll typically be offered re-education if it's only minor. After that, if you don't contest a minor offence it's a £100 fine, plus costs, plus 3 points on your license per offence. If you contest it and lose, or it's such a major offence that you get taken straight to court, you'll be fined a percentage of your weekly income (depending on how bad it was), court costs and surcharges, and extra points. 12 points in three years is called "totting-up" and you automatically get your license revoked, so as an absolute maximum you can get away with four speeding tickets in three years. Any more than that, and you lose your license. Or if you're a new driver, if you get 6 points in the first two years you have to start over with taking your driving tests again.

All this to say... someone getting 16 speeding tickets and not having their license taken away is baffling to me.

Drivers who get more than 16 speeding tickets in a year should get a restraining order where they can't come closer than 500 feet to any car.

That's fine, so long as the limit is set to 0MPH. Anyone getting that many speeding tickets shouldn't be driving.

Ok but how are they going to deal with the fact that LEO in their personal civilian cars are the ones speeding and going through red lights with impunity?

It's funny, I read a separate article on Lemmy earlier this week about the worst traffic offender in NYC actually being a NYPD cop...

Unpopular opinion:

Cars should come pre-configured with a speed limit matching tge highest speed limit in tge country (ie if tge highest legal speed limit is 120kph, all cars should have a default unchangeable limit of 120kph)

Note that these speed camera "tickets" are different than normal tickets. No cop is pulling them over and issuing a citation to the driver directly. It's the car that is cited, and usually the registered owner ends up having to pay the fine. But since they can't prove who is driving it, they can't issue the same type of conventional ticket. (And that's also why the fine is so low -- make it much higher and people will flood the courts trying to get out of it by saying they weren't driving it at the time).

And that's why they can't just suspend someone's license instead. Because they can't tell who is driving in the picture, and even if someone gets their license suspended, they might just keep driving as long as they don't get pulled over.

I generally don't like technical solutions to social problems. Our cars are getting too smart for their own good anyway. The car companies are putting all this telemetry in there, and some have been recently caught selling your driving history to insurance companies. I definitely don't want the government punishing people based on cameras they can't see. We could decide "hey, why not let the government install nannys into the cars of people who speed". But then there's not much of a stretch between that and having the government give everyone a nanny.

Why not an exponentially growing fine? A $10 ticket (honest mistake) doubled 16 times makes it $650k

Infuriating because 16 is a number too high, right?

Cool. Fuck cars. Take transit in NYC.