The top speeder, who drives often in southern Brooklyn, has been caught speeding by school zone speed cameras more than 1,000 times since mid-2023, according to new data from Transportation Alternatives and Families For Safe Streets.
Most state laws around camera fines are was softer than those from tickets issued by people. For one a camera cannot identify the driver of the vehicle so it’s not technically a traffic violation on anyone’s license, it’s a fine levied against the owner of the vehicle.
These laws restrict what actions they can take against the vehicle owner because there’s no proof they were driving.
If you have no idea who’s using your car to break laws repeatedly, shouldn’t it be impounded?
Weird how a photograph wouldn’t be able to identify a driver… sure, you can cast doubt, but unless you’re wearing a mask it still should hold up in court…?
This is why other countries have day fines. If fines were proportional to income wealthy people couldn’t just keep swatting them like mosquitoes.
It also seems like people have figured out the limitations of camera fines and how they have no effect on your license.
The article states a bunch of the fines aren’t even paid; the fuck is NYC doing?
Most state laws around camera fines are was softer than those from tickets issued by people. For one a camera cannot identify the driver of the vehicle so it’s not technically a traffic violation on anyone’s license, it’s a fine levied against the owner of the vehicle.
These laws restrict what actions they can take against the vehicle owner because there’s no proof they were driving.
If you have no idea who’s using your car to break laws repeatedly, shouldn’t it be impounded?
Weird how a photograph wouldn’t be able to identify a driver… sure, you can cast doubt, but unless you’re wearing a mask it still should hold up in court…?
The camera isn’t always facing the front of the vehicle, and even when it is, glare on the windscreen can obscure the driver.
Your first point absolutely stands though