Amen. Those saying they’d “much rather talk it out with the cop and see what happens” or that the current system is better than traffic cameras because it essentially lets them get away with speeding easier are essentially proving their privilege.

The higher the speed, the greater the death. That is proven. Maybe everyone needs to slow down and not worry about playing Nascar in their Civic. Who cares if it takes 42 minutes to make the drive instead of 38 minutes. Slow down. 

I’ve found that a decent chunk of the far-right that are supportive of a full-on police state. Like not even unintentionally conflicting view points. They openly want it. 

I love how a lot of the people telling you that you’re wrong are doing so by pointing out other systems that are broken or anecdotal cases of where it doesn’t work already because of, again, other broken systems or just plain human stupidity, all of which can either be corrected or people will just get used to like…

American traffic tickets are not at a deterrent level. You want deterrent, look at the Scandinavian countries: most traffic tickets cost a percent of your annual income. People would think a whole lot differently about doing 20 over in a school zone if it would cost them 5% of their annual income.

With the camera I’m guilty until I can prove myself innocent

Exactly.. Im an upper’ish middle class respectable, property owning white guy driving an Outback. I profile as about the most boring dude in the world and i still dealt w/all that bullshit.

You can... fight the ticket? I know I’d much rather receive a fine in the mail and schedule a court appearance on my own terms than be worried about getting pulled out of my car by a cop who didn’t like my haircut or the spelling of my name and then having to spend the weekend in jail for “resisting arrest” while…

...Except OnStar or your phone GPS already told the gov’t that you were speeding. And corroborated that it was your vehicle with the dirty plate being operated by Trump. It would take very little effort to completely enforce traffic laws in most areas. I hope this never happens.

Why? If we want to have speed limits, we need some mechanism to enforce them, or they won’t be followed. So why not have fair and objective enforcement (with reasonable and proportional penalties)?

I propose crowd-sourcing traffic violations. Here’s how: every vehicle gets a paintball gun. Drivers who identify poor driving behavior can shoot the offending driver’s vehicle with one paintball, like a downvote. Once your vehicle accumulates sufficient paintball downvotes, you lose your license. 

It seems like we are nearing the point where we could do most if not all traffic enforcement with cameras or other similar monitoring. Obviously in order for that to be reasonable, we need to make sure speed limits are actually appropriate, and need to understand that if you can fine every offender, there’s no need…

There’s gonna be some toothless cousin lovers rootin and tootin for someone to “put em into the wall.”

I just wish it hadn’t taken so long, NASCAR getting rid of the Confederate flag from their venues. But I take a lot of heart from Bubba Wallace wearing a BLM t-shirt. I suspect there’s been a lot of long talks between Richard Petty and Bubba in order for Wallace to protest like that. Before, when this issue really…

If you’d told me even a year ago that a man named Bubba would be driving a racial justice-themed stock car and discussing a full ban of Confederate flags at NASCAR events, I’d have called you crazy.

Combine this livery at a NASCAR event with NFL players planning to kneel to the anthem this upcoming season and voila!

The first time in history a guy named “Bubba” turned out to NOT be racist...

I KID, I KID!

I have been generally universally derisive towards all things NASCAR but this is good and i am glad to see it. Kudos to Bubba.

I look forward to all the fake threats on Facebook to never attend another NASCAR race.

I dig the hood graphic.  Absolutely love the message of unity between the races...at the races.  Go Bubba!