Mix an increasingly affordable and easy implementation of nanny-state technology to a shift towards tyrannical governance, and things will likely start getting ugly fast.
I would prefer to be judged by a person. I truly hate cars but here in the general Seattle area if you don’t have a car you just can’t function. So, say you are late to work every day but you blow thru every intersection to get to work not too late, just late. That’s obviously a you problem and one day it will be someone getting hit by you and you end up in jail. But if you’re just a random person or a visitor to the city, you’ll get a ticket by surprise one day.
There is also a complete lack of segregation of duties with these things. The companies that install, configure, and maintain also get a cut of the income. This is really bad.
As someone likely to be profiled by cops, I like the concept of objectivity with automated patrolling, but this comes at such an overbearing scalability and privacy violation that it’s still the greater evil.
I just hope automated driving becomes the norm soon enough to obviate the need for this. That comes at a cost too, but the lives saved from that will be on the order of what some vaccines have accomplished and the efficiency with regards to time and energy all add up to make that a worthwhile change in my book.
Mix an increasingly affordable and easy implementation of nanny-state technology to a shift towards tyrannical governance, and things will likely start getting ugly fast.
I would prefer to be judged by a person. I truly hate cars but here in the general Seattle area if you don’t have a car you just can’t function. So, say you are late to work every day but you blow thru every intersection to get to work not too late, just late. That’s obviously a you problem and one day it will be someone getting hit by you and you end up in jail. But if you’re just a random person or a visitor to the city, you’ll get a ticket by surprise one day.
There is also a complete lack of segregation of duties with these things. The companies that install, configure, and maintain also get a cut of the income. This is really bad.
As someone likely to be profiled by cops, I like the concept of objectivity with automated patrolling, but this comes at such an overbearing scalability and privacy violation that it’s still the greater evil. I just hope automated driving becomes the norm soon enough to obviate the need for this. That comes at a cost too, but the lives saved from that will be on the order of what some vaccines have accomplished and the efficiency with regards to time and energy all add up to make that a worthwhile change in my book.
driving while bot stops are going to be a thing.