Privatization at work, fucking individuals (not this one, they deserve to be fucked) over while also fucking over society. Generally these cameras do nothing to improve safety and solely serve to generate revenue, and mostly that revenue benefits the company not the municipality.

Yep, exactly. But, if this program (I guess?) was run correctly, the money generated from the tickets would go directly to improving or reengineering the road to stop it from happening. Then after that has been shown to work, you move to the next area that needs help. They could literally use the cameras to generate…

NP all day.  I don’t care that it’s simple, stupid, and maybe objectively horrible.  I love ‘em, and I really enjoyed watching Edd China restore one on Wheeler Dealers, fixing all of its weird (but surprisingly efficient) little oddities.  Maybe swap in a bigger VW engine for a little surprise, maybe don’t. …

A guy on my town had an orange Thing when I was a kid and I thought it was pretty interesting. If I had the space and money for a weird occasional driver, I could go for this. Very unique. Top-down driving. Classic. Kinda ticks all of the boxes for me. I’d love to take this on weekend camping trips or just daily drive…

Exactly my problem with this type of enforcement method. It doesn’t fix the root issue.

It’s tricky because we tolerate some amount of speeding in the US. We rely on selective enforcement and the discretion of officers to inconsistently give citations, leading us to use speed limits as a rough guideline. But speed cameras works different.

If you think that’s bad, have a listen to a podcast called Cautionary Tales, specifically the episode called, ‘The City That Sold Itself To Wall Street’.

As someone who wrote RFP responses to state and local governments for speed cameras, red light and parking enforcement, and toll collection systems, I’m shocked the city is getting that much.

True that. Trump’s Covid response is great example

You’re right, decorum is more important than action. It was very rude of me to suggest that Washington or Nashville should do anything to help their constituents. It’s natural that they should leave people to their own devices while they process their emotional trauma and I’m being very unkind suggesting that they…

I honestly don’t like speed cams at all as I don’t think they really do anything, especially when you live close to another state or district (Hello DC!). But the fact that of the $50, the private company gets $33 is just insane. The money should mostly go to the city to then make the school zones safer, until ticket…

This summer I had my ‘73 reassessed by the insurer and they allowed a $20K valuation for collision loss - that’s for a 50+ year-old car that probably has over 300K on the odometer.  The body is in good shape and the rebuilt engine runs well.  The one featured is NP IMO but you’d have to make sure any body rust issues…

Ah yes, the sure sign of a successful nation: laypeople rebuilding destroyed infrastructure with trash because the government has zero interest in doing so!

NIce Price, this thing appears to be rust free and cosmetically good, reasonable miles. There is definitely a market for these. The mechanicals are simple and cheap to repair. It is undoubtedly inferior to a modern car in most every way, but that is the fun of it, not comparing performance, comfort, NVH, ride and…

This is about what they go for now. NP.

I’m calling NP.

Yeah that whole post was unreadable, thanks for translating from cultspeak.

There is only one M3 and it is most definitely not made by fucking Tesla. That said, everything @Kerberos824 said.

M3 is a BMW. What you meant is Model 3. Model 3s are not called M3s lol. Don’t tarnish a luxury brand like that!

I spent a good ten seconds wondering what the fuck the BMW M3 has to do with this topic.