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cleveland124 on 24 March 2008
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twesterm said:
cleveland124 said:
twesterm said:

Do you ever see people driving on motorcycles? Most of them deserve to die.

I see them all the time doing wheelies through intersections, weaving through traffic, and driving 100+ down the highway.

And once again, the auto-generated tickets work. Remember, the point of tickets isn't (or shouldn't be) to make money, it's to protect the citizens. It's true having a cop nearby makes you be a little more careful, but cops can't be everywhere at once.


Great gross generalizations are always the best way to win arguments. And glad you want me my dad, my uncle and my best friend to all die.

Auto-generated does one thing, it makes one spot safer. People are still going to run red lights just not that one. So overall does it make society safer or make better drivers? Also, everything comes with a cost. Since you would like to see them stay, what is your plan, to make cuts somewhere else or raise taxes?


 Come to Dallas and then be all defensive again.  I guess I'm just calling a spade when I see a spade.


I've come to Dallas, and I've drove in several big cities.  I've seen alot of bad drivers.  However, that doesn't mean they deserve to die.  It means that we should actually have a driving test instead of giving anyone a license.  Maybe they do save lives.  You know how to really save lives?  We can make everyone purchase a Nascar, have rollbar, wear helmets/firesuits in cars, and then just for gigles, we'll lock the engines to a max of 20 MPH.  Then no one will ever die in another car accident. 

Realistically though, here is my problem with Red light cameras.  It makes us one step from an in car device that can communicate through GPS to a satellite, how fast we are going whereever we are.  So yeah, we can get to the point where we have a no tolerance system.  Cops certainly aren't going to catch everyone, but we can come up with a system to get everyone.  Then where does that get us?  Is it truely safer or we just going towards a hidden tax on society?  Probably a bit of both, but red light cameras are at less than .01% of all intersections.  So I'm not going to lose any sleep if they lose a couple of them.