Not actually that great an article, but an excuse to mention how much I dislike our current traffic enforcement paradigm. Police speed checks tend to be set up along straight flat stretches of road during relatively low-traffic hours. Those are the conditions most likely to give you a radar reading that will stand up. Cynics would say it’s also fishing where the fish are – the conditions in which someone is most likely to exceed the speed limit. They are also the conditions in which speeding is least likely to present an actual accident risk.

Sometime when I have a chance to have a friendly, social interaction with a uniformed cop or two, away from the pressure of an official encounter, I’d like to pick his or her brains on what traffic enforcement would look like if it really were about safety rather than revenue enhancement and the convenience of law enforcement.

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