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12-13-2005, 02:32 PM
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Re: Speeding and punishment
"You can easily understand that it's a scheme by looking at how traffic enforcement often works. Patrol cars are often unmarked, often hide in shadows, behind trees and roadside signs, etc, so that they may surprise unwitting motorists. If the point of speed enforcement were truly to slow down the average speed of the traffic, the patrol cars would be extremely conspicuous, constantly lit up like Christmas trees so that motorists would know they were there and a ticket could be imminent. Clearly, the object is not to reduce the speed of traffic, but to snag 1 car in thousands so that their $300 to $800 per hour of revenue can be generated."
Hardly, unless there were enough traffic cops to monitor all traffic all of the time. If they didn't stay hidden, people would simply speed when they weren't there and hide otherwise. If they stay hidden there's a possibility that you're of being caught at any time, and hence have an incentive to never speed. 
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12-13-2005, 02:36 PM
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Re: Speeding and punishment
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Hardly, unless there were enough traffic cops to monitor all traffic all of the time. If they didn't stay hidden, people would simply speed when they weren't there and hide otherwise. If they stay hidden there's a possibility that you're of being caught at any time, and hence have an incentive to never speed. [/ QUOTE ] And how well does that work?\ Edit: But you do have a good point. It's still a racket, though.
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12-13-2005, 04:47 PM
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Re: Speeding and punishment
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[ QUOTE ] Hardly, unless there were enough traffic cops to monitor all traffic all of the time. If they didn't stay hidden, people would simply speed when they weren't there and hide otherwise. If they stay hidden there's a possibility that you're of being caught at any time, and hence have an incentive to never speed. [/ QUOTE ] And how well does that work?\ Edit: But you do have a good point. It's still a racket, though. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah right, there are about 15 places in my town that a cop could hide. There are only three patrol cars in the area. Let them hide all they want, they'll still never catch me because they are too dumb.
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