Somewhat tangential, but we have the already have the tech to know when license plates show up at a certain place, we know the map and the speed limits, so we could completely automate tickets for speeding. If the limit is 60mph and you show up 10 road-miles away in less than 6 minutes then you must have sped somewhere along the way, then the owner of the car gets a ticket in the mail.
In the short-term I think most people would hate this, but then I think we need to choose between raising the limit or following it. We all make the laws so we can raise the limits, and this approach completely removes the potential for abuse or playing favorites. As an added benefit it wipes out a lot of what cops spend their time on, so if you don't like cops we could justify having way less, or if you do like them then it frees up their time to focus on more important things.
I also recognize this opens up a huge potential for abuse by the govt having all this data, but we already have it for tolls so we might as well use it for good - having human police officers handle stuff like this is a huge risk for abuse and a waste of time.
That would still be unjust, since there can be heavy traffic at the end which renders a speeder having driven, on average, within the speed limit. Bottom line though is that if you get too draconian with the enforcement, people will revolt. There is definitely such a thing as too much structure.. that's arguably the whole reason the US was created.
In the short-term I think most people would hate this, but then I think we need to choose between raising the limit or following it. We all make the laws so we can raise the limits, and this approach completely removes the potential for abuse or playing favorites. As an added benefit it wipes out a lot of what cops spend their time on, so if you don't like cops we could justify having way less, or if you do like them then it frees up their time to focus on more important things.
I also recognize this opens up a huge potential for abuse by the govt having all this data, but we already have it for tolls so we might as well use it for good - having human police officers handle stuff like this is a huge risk for abuse and a waste of time.