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Traffic Camera Captures Woman Driving With Her Phone on Her Lap (Face Down), The State Mailed Her a $1251 'Public Safety' Ticket (www.gadgetreview.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A woman drives with both hands on the wheel. Her phone sits face-down on her lap. No officer pulls her over. No lights flash. Weeks later, a $1,251 ticket arrives in the mail. The evidence: a single frame from a Camera surveillance app. The charge: phone use while driving.

Automated camera companies market their devices as automated license plate readers — tools for catching stolen cars, flagging warrants, and aiding serious investigations.

Sold as a Crime Tool. Used as a Fine Machine.

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[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

The only problem I have is with the camera doing the police work. Like getting a speeding ticket for 26 in a 25 from a speed trap camera -- a cop may or may not pull you over in that instance, because a cop can look at the whole scenario/variables and decide if that extra one mile really was a danger to others.

Yeah, this moron was probably using the phone. And every asshole using their phone at a red light means fewer cars get through that red light because they're too busy looking at their phone to notice that the light has changed or the car in front of them has moved. But let's have a person making this decision to issue a ticket -- a phone at a red light at 3am is much different than a phone at a red light at 515pm.

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world -1 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 41 minutes ago)

Police have better shit to do than mobile phone enforcement

And, in what circumstance should they be speeding? That makes no sense. If there was a valid reason, you can contest the ticket anyway

There sure as fuck is no valid reason for them whatsoever to have their mobile on their lap

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Fuck that everyine should instantly have a ticket assesed for going one mph over the speed limit but we're all a bunch of fucking savages who like having vehicular homicide legalized