09-17-2022, 08:09 AM
(09-16-2022, 06:34 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: What I think should happen is that every driver who does this gets ticketed. Leaving aside a more serious (as in, not a joke, the way our licensing currently is) enforcement scheme, they could probably ticket 2-3 dangerous drivers a day, at that rate, we'd have a real enforcement mechanism on our hands...
Makes sense. They have video of the offence, so ticketing the vehicle owner shouldn’t be a problem.
And I am utterly uninterested in the whole “but who was driving?” argument. OK, either report that the vehicle was stolen at the time, or recover the fine from the driver. Vehicle owners have to be responsible for the authorized operation of their vehicles. Same comment applies to red-light cameras, speed cameras, and any other automated enforcement mechanism.
One strange thing I noticed: the footage in the video is of very low quality. Yet run-of-the-mill surveillance cameras provide HD colour footage. Did they deliberately reduce the quality for some reason? I can see why they might blur license plates or other identifying marks, but reducing the quality of the entire clip seems like a strange decision.