bucy wrote:
] Well, speeding is against the law, after all ...

It is not appropriate to think of laws as a binary.

This is one of those cases where there is a difference between what is legal and what is wrong, and the method of enforcement even follows that model. People don't get tickets for speeding, they get tickets for not paying attention. In advocating these systems, the insurance companies hope to raise premiums on people who are no more at risk then they were before. We go from a situation where certain kinds of activity are illegal but not aggressively prohibited, to a situation where the activity is aggressively prohibited, and this is a significant change.

For example, there is a big difference between the level of pot use in Singapore, where it is punishable by death, vs the US, where minor possession is punishable by fines, vs Canada, where minor possession is technically illegal but the laws are not actually enforced.

RE: [Politech] Speed cameras main purpose? To raise more revenue [priv]