Re: Speed cameras coming to CA? Yes, if this bill p*****!

On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:23:22 -0800, David Nebenzahl
<nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On 3/8/2008 10:08 AM Scott in SoCal spake thus:

>> If a malfunctioning speed camera nails you, good luck proving your
>> innocence. Even if you don't speed, you still lose.
>
>So what's the difference between that and the possibility that a radar 
>gun wielded by a human might be similarly inaccurate? 

VOLUME. Automated speed cameras can pump out faulty tickets many
orders of magnitude faster than human police officers. The court
system is already bogged down with traffic cases; what do you suppose
will happen when a massive tsunami of bogus tickets starts flooding
in?