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18:21 - Not a bad point-- but still...
http://instapundit.blogspot.com/?/2002_03_10_instapundit_archive.html#75008660
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A reader of InstaPundit has an interesting (and seldom represented) perspective on automated traffic surveillance and tickets issued by cameras and computers.
Namely, he's actually glad it's going this way now-- it's much less embarrassing and invasive not to have to talk to a cop.
Okay, granted... it's a type of confrontation that we (or at least most of us) have to deal with so seldom that we just don't have any kind of comfort level when it does happen. It's far easier to just see that flash in our eyes and go "Aww, dammit!" and then move on, chastened. (After all, it's been documented that a large percentage of auto accidents occur very soon after the driver in question had just been in a heart-pounding near-miss, or had just been pulled over and released. It's very disconcerting. You're about as shaky as a kid at a piano-recital awards ceremony. You're not alert, your mind is spinning, replaying the incident over and over, the road ahead of you is the last thing on your mind. You're a fender-bender waiting to happen.) This new system will probably reduce accidents, free up police man-hours, save money, all that good stuff.
But still... slippery slope, people. Slippery slope. The 1984 scenario always starts out with the best of intentions.
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