How long before vehicles start to issue speeding tickets to drivers?
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I don't know about auto-ticketing (innocent until proven guilty, after all), but a "black box" arrangement recording the last hour of driving, which is saved to write-once memory when the car detects a crash sounds like a good idea. The 1-hour overwrite limit would limit "fishing" for old speeding incidents etc. by the police. Storing the data after an accident in write-once memory would help prevent tampering with the evidence. If the system erroneously recorded an accident, the evidence in the write-once memory would help exonerate the driver. Sounds like a win-win to me.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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I don't know about auto-ticketing (innocent until proven guilty, after all), but a "black box" arrangement recording the last hour of driving, which is saved to write-once memory when the car detects a crash sounds like a good idea. The 1-hour overwrite limit would limit "fishing" for old speeding incidents etc. by the police. Storing the data after an accident in write-once memory would help prevent tampering with the evidence. If the system erroneously recorded an accident, the evidence in the write-once memory would help exonerate the driver. Sounds like a win-win to me.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytx[^] The taxi cabs at the company I used to work for all had these. The risk management guy used to show some of the videos; such as a driver falling asleep on the freeway. There were also many videos of girls going wild. Wink wink nudge nudge.
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Actually, rather then your vehicle issuing speeding tickets, the car will simply download your entire driving history (since the last download) and some computer will automatically fine you after reviewing what roads you were on, what the posted speed limit is, and what you were actually doing. But rather than continually fining you, it'll be tied in to a complex point system that will adjusting your insurance and licensing rates, sort of like in The Fifth Element, and if your points exceed a certain monthly quota, your car will simply stop working. Marc
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytx[^] The taxi cabs at the company I used to work for all had these. The risk management guy used to show some of the videos; such as a driver falling asleep on the freeway. There were also many videos of girls going wild. Wink wink nudge nudge.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
There were also many videos of girls going wild. Wink wink nudge nudge.
This may be OK for a voluntary system, but for a mandatory system - I think that for privacy reasons, the ability to download should be limited to accident-related events. Unless the "girls going wild" were germane to the accident, it should be irrelevant to law enforcement.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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Actually, rather then your vehicle issuing speeding tickets, the car will simply download your entire driving history (since the last download) and some computer will automatically fine you after reviewing what roads you were on, what the posted speed limit is, and what you were actually doing. But rather than continually fining you, it'll be tied in to a complex point system that will adjusting your insurance and licensing rates, sort of like in The Fifth Element, and if your points exceed a certain monthly quota, your car will simply stop working. Marc
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While technically feasible, the problem with this system is that all trips - including those where no traffic violations were performed - are available to the licensing authority. This is a serious privacy issue. Given that the capacity of automotive processors is more than sufficient to run a GPS system, a solution that would preserve the privacy of law-abiding drivers is to have the vehicle download the current speed limits, and record any speeding violations for later review.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill