"Groagun" (groagun)
07/29/2014 at 22:56 • Filed to: None
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"Groagun" (groagun)
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As you may be able to tell from my edited picture above, I think tickets, speeding in particular are nothing but cash grabs for the PD and city coffers: and very little, to nothing to do with safety.
It seems though that over the last 2 decades PD's have needed these revenue streams to keep afloat. Endless labor issues in one jurisdiction or another, the "job action" tactics and the never ending fight over "Essential Service" definitions have made the public weary and disgusted at both local politicians and the police alike.
The cops have one real disadvantage here in that they come face to face with the public everyday and have to actually hand out these 'tax', I mean tickets to those unfortunate enough to get caught.
Now some people do deserve these tickets. Speeding in school zones is an absolute NO NO! Speeding in construction zones where people are working on and around the road are absolute NO NO's! There are others you can think of but not that many and truth be told, they punish the already taken action and do not prevent the action from taking place to begin with. Giving the guy a ticket after he has killed the school kid is of no consequence to anyone at all.
My question to all of you is this: Not if but when the automated car and or road system is implemented, where will the cops and the politicians make up for that lost revenue stream?
GhostZ
> Groagun
07/29/2014 at 23:02 |
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They will just tax point-of-sale for autonomous cars.
Also, keep in mind that just because autonomous cars are on the road doesn't mean that manual cars won't be. The ability to tax, hash out faults, and regulate tighter human-driven cars VS auto ones is one huge reason that would keep people from being forced to use autonomous cars.
syaieya
> Groagun
07/29/2014 at 23:07 |
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Related on only a tangent. But I was thinking of autonomous cars today on my commute.
You know that few second delay at stop lights that happens when several cars line up? The things caused by many reasons, distracted drivers, people with differing amounts of acceleration, comfort zones setting a gap, or just general indecision.
All that adds up and ends up taking several seconds that many more cars could have gone through onto their destination.
And all that would be gone because as soon as that light changes a series of autonomous cars could just all go at the same time like a race start.
As for money, fuel costs, standard taxes, and prolly cracking down on smaller infractions like lights being out
beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
> syaieya
07/29/2014 at 23:16 |
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Wth a fully automated road network you wouldn't even need stop lights. You could put roundabouts and slip lanes everywhere and space the cars out far enough so that they'd slot in between each other without colliding.
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> GhostZ
07/29/2014 at 23:22 |
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You beat me to it. If they can tax it, they will.
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Groagun
> GhostZ
07/29/2014 at 23:42 |
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True, kind of. Point of sales tax already exist. As for new or portions of the tax going directly to PD's I would have to argue with and could envision huge legal battles in every jurisdiction. That just wouldn't work.
I should have been more clear about the autonomous future and what I see down the road as in every vehicle being automated.
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Groagun
> syaieya
07/29/2014 at 23:44 |
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I've thought of this a million times. Thanks for putting it down.
HammerheadFistpunch
> Groagun
07/30/2014 at 00:04 |
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easy, change the speed limits often enough that at least for one of two days ALL automated cars are speeding before the software update.
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> GhostZ
07/30/2014 at 09:35 |
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I could honestly see people in the future being pressured by harsher law to buy autonomous.