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These kinds of automated enforcement are absolutely dystopian.

Imagine describing almost anything other than speed limits and suggesting automated camera based enforcement.

Drop a food wrapper on the ground? instant fine. Jaywalk? Instant fine.

If we can't be bothered to enforce our rules in person, the problem is with the rules not the methods of enforcement.

You could instead drive at or below posted speed limits, and stop at traffic signals. Then you wouldn't have to worry about this "dystopia"! And the result is that you'd be a safer driver too.

This is ridiculous whataboutism. We're not discussing robocop sending you to jail for dropping a banana peel. It's simply automatic enforcement of safety rules for operating your licensed, registered, private machinery in public spaces.

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