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Enforcement is always a losing battle.

Look at red light cameras. New York City introduced red light cameras in 1994 to stop offenders. In 2022, NYC cameras issued 618,000 red light violation tickets.

If you want to limit behavior, use engineering. Add speed limiters to cars, or speed bumps to roads.

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One of the core problems with enforcement right now is that municipalities rarely impound cars because of unpaid tickets. So often you'll see that someone that caused a major fatality crash had thousands in unpaid fines.

I think if we just took away cars and licenses, and eventually throwing people in jail, it would have a huge positive impact.

We've normalized car culture so much that we forget how dangerous cars can be to pedestrians. And, we've built cities to favor cars over people. Prioritizing pedestrian safety will take a lot of work.

Japan values pedestrians. There, it's a 3-year prison sentence for drinking and driving.

I don't consider it a losing battle if the punishment is severe enough. But I also don't object, in principle, to cars reporting each other speeding.

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