Will the last normal person leaving the San Fran Bay area please turn off the lights, er, if they’re not having a state government-imposed power outage?
They’ll ticket everyone ,LOL
They deserve it. Most Bay Area “residents” are busy pooping on the sidewalk, taking drugs, drinking and molesting anything that moves. The only car they have is the one they stole.
The a-holes who drive 100+, endangering lives, weaving through traffic, aren’t going to pay a fine.
They will abandon the cameras after they figure out that cameras are racist.
As one poster noted the other day these cameras have a bad habit of making everyone look brown or black.
;-)
They did it in our town...Worked out fine until they discovered that certain demographics and “city workers who were exempt” were the chief lawbreakers. AND...someone got wise to the shortening of the time on the yellow light.
This is already in place in DC. Anything over 10mph over the posted limit and the registered owner receives a fine in the mail. It’s in NYC as well.
If we use the same logic on cars as libs use on guns, cars should go a maximum of 70mph. Guns are a right, cars a privilege.
Arent there due process and other legal issues with this? I have been under the impression that speed camera tickets were not enforceable and rely on the person sent the ticket to be gullible enough to pay up rather than just ignore it.
They do this in Dubai
IIRC, some city(ies) or state(s) tried this regarding red traffic lights and the courts shot it down.
6th amendment
Don't tell Steve McQueen.
The Chinese model of social control. People behaving themselves not because it’s the ethical or right thing to do, but because there are government electronic eyeballs everywhere watching your every move. A giant prison rec yard.
West told Sacramento Bee that three amendments needed to be added in order to pass the bill, which include clarifying the angle of the camera, how long records of penalties will be retained and how many occurrences of street racing would enable the installation of a camera.
The last part suggests that these cameras would only be set up in locations where there is a history of street racing (which has become a big problem in many cities in California). Up until then in the article, it made it seem like these cameras would be set up everywhere in the state. Great journalism by the left, once again.
I do make an exception for automated enforcement under special circumstances — like in construction zones, for example. The elevated risks make enforcement more urgent, and altered/temporary road conditions make conventional enforcement impractical.
I GUARANTEE these programs are administered by a 3rd party company who takes a huge cut off the top of the “fines”.
I wonder which relatives of what politicians own the company?
After my last trip to California, I rather decided speed limits were a joke there so their wall to wall traffic at 65 doesn’t bother me.
I grew up in and learned how to drive in southern California.
My rule is to keep up with traffic regardless of the speed limit.
In 2020 I went through Sacramento and Stockton on I-5. I don’t think I was below 70 to 80 MPH much of the time.
Speed limit was 55. Even in construction zones.
MY rule is to drive at what I feel is safe for conditions,
typically I exceed, on open roads about 9 MPH or more over the limit.
School zones and places where there a lot of kids and pedestrians, I go 5 MPH under the limit.
Most speed limits are really recommendations for junkers with bad tires or to enhance local city coffers.
Used to drive in Bay Area now driving in San Antonio area. Seems like same number of weaving knuckleheads in both places...just more likely here that the knucklehead is in a pickup truck rather than a Mercedes or Volvo.