Posted on 01/29/2022 4:20:36 PM PST by algore
US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's plan to 'promote speed safety cameras' is raising the troubling specter of ubiquitous automated traffic enforcement in the style of the UK, where the cameras are widely despised.
Buttigieg's 42-page plan road safety plan unveiled on Thursday and backed by $14 billion in funding from the new infrastructure bill, contained only brief mention of the speed camera plan, but it was enough to set alarm bells ringing for worried motorists.
Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson slammed the plan as a misuse of the funds in the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Bill, fuming that 'you're about to get a lot more speeding tickets from robots.'
'When the country applauded $1.2 trillion going to fixing the roads, bridges and buildings, a lot of us were dumb enough to think that's what might actually happen,' he said.
Speed cameras have also drawn sharp criticism from some on the left, who are angry that the fines are often directed to fund police departments, making the issue rare grounds for bipartisan agreement.
Currently, eight US states have laws specifically prohibiting speed cameras. Only 18 states plus DC have speed cameras in use by law, with the other states having no law on the books authorizing their use. Buttigieg's strategy recommends pilot programs to study and promote greater use of speed cameras
Buttigieg said new federal data being released next week will show another increase in traffic fatalities through the third quarter of 2021.
Those numbers are expected to point to a sizable increase in deaths compared with the same period in 2020, adding to a half-year traffic death total of 20,160 that already was the highest half-year figure since 2006.
'It doesn´t look good, and I continue to be extremely concerned about the trend,' Buttigieg told the AP in an interview.
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Not really. It might have changed but it used to be they didn't even allow the CHP to use radar. They had to rely on aerial tracking or pacing you on the highway.
Check back in a year and let’s see if all these dystopian wet dreams come true.
May the chains of your oppressors rest lightly upon your neck.
Maybe the thing to do is resist - and use traffic / surveillance cameras as target practice
That’s right. Go too slow and get rear ended in some situations.
since he solved the supply chain crisis i guess this is his next big thing
“Maybe the thing to do is obey the traffic laws. Just my opinion. Fifty-seven years behind the wheel, no accidents, no moving violations.”
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I assume you would also have no problem with government cameras in your home. If you aren’t breaking any laws, then all should be good, right?
Why not just stop when the light turns red.
the same way with our native-born citizen drivers.
Thank God you have no bearing on how I live my life.
Why not just stop when the light turns red.
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These are not stop light cameras they are talking of (although I detest those as well). These are traffic cameras that record all the vehicles, all the time. They will serve no purpose but to spy on the people.
If the cameras are for safety, then the fines go to the national government. No local entity can be allowed to profit from them.
Oh you local entities don’t like that?
But, but I thought they were about safety???
so follow the speed laws and there will be no problem.
Same here: no ticket in over 35 years.
I thought cops were all racists and only arrest minorities.
Just wait until these cameras start to ticket too many minorities. Then they will ONLY be places in 100% white neighborhoods.
I wonder how much they’ve budgeted to replace the cameras that get shot out. This isn’t the UK.
“Never said that, Just have never had a moving violation, a parking ticket or an accident.”
Well, when they plaster speed cameras all over the place, you WILL have your nice clean record blemished, because you WILL be ticketed for even 1 MPH over the limit.
Speed cameras are for raising revenue, not “safety”. Also, speed limits are rarely set for “safety”. They are set arbitrarily, often by local ordinance or state laws that set speeds by political boundaries, not road conditions.
It’s all about the revenue.
But hey, you know, if you have nothing to hide, and all that.
Many, yes.
If you really think this is about people running red lights, you’re irredeemably naive. What does that even mean? - “why not just stop when the light turns red”
A sharp increase from 2020? You mean from the midst of the scam-demic? I imagine everything has shown a sharp increase since then. Obviously using bogus statistics to justify their tyrannical dreams. Go ahead. Practice targets are where you find them...
Bull Anzio’s, You are just another control-freak Karen.
The smug is strong in this one....
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