You can't run into someone if they're going the same speed as you.
The author rightly concludes that over-ticketing people is about money, first and foremost.
Defense spending in the United States is $685.1 billion per year, or $2,218.98 for every person in the country. (This number is probably much higher because of the creative accounting of the federal government, but it will work fine for my purposes) You can throw in another $40 Billion for DHS if it meets your fancy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_S... http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/budget-bib-fy2012.pdf
In my state, Ohio, the State Police budget is $613M every two years, or $26.57 for each of the 11,536,504 people in the state.
http://statepatrol.ohio.gov/units.stm#fiscal http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/39000.html
Finally, my local municipality offers a ballpark figure of $10M a year to serve about 40k people, or about $250 per person.
Last year, my state ran an illegal (under our constitution) budget deficit of $8 billion.
I paid just under $250 in taxes to my local municipality (I made just over double what the average citizen here makes).
The fact is that those who protect us in our own neighborhoods don't have the budget to do so - so they have to raise money by inconveniencing us.
If the tax system were upended and I was paying 30% of my income to my local municipality and $250 bucks to the federal government, I bet we would see a massive reduction in the speeding tax we pay every year.
The benefits it would have on education, research, entitlements and the amount of corruption it would eliminate by decentralizing the moneypot would just be a bonus.