An AI camera system caught almost 300 drivers breaking the law during the first three days of its use in the UK.

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[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Once you've defined everyone as a criminal, you can ensure subservience.

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

So using mobile phones or not wearing seatbelts is expectable ?, I wish people who violate distracted driving laws lose their license for good. Now no seatbelts is not an issue for me. Let the idiots die.

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You, unwittingly, hit upon another aspect of the issue.

Whether to wear a seatbelt or not is a personal decision. Criminalizing it (nobody challenged this!?), is part of a process of brainwashing people (e.g. you) to accept the idea that you're not free to decide, in general.

Furthermore, such laws, which the thoughtless don't understand, are an attack on the basis of democracy itself. Democracy rests on the idea that the citizens of a society are, and certainly must be treated as, responsible adults. They decide the fate of their society, for fuck's sake!

So, the state is supposed to serve its citizens and must not, as a general rule, try to treat them like mentally-challenged children.

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

is part of a process of brainwashing people

Wearing a seatbelt does save lives and well documented Seat belts reduce serious injuries by 50% and deaths by 45% in front seat passengers and drivers. With that said shit for brains not wearing Seat belts has not caused any collisions, using ones phone is always the cause of vehicle collisions. The National Safety Council in your opinion is brainwashing.

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Depriving people of of all freedoms, to do anything whatsoever, must save a shitload of lives and make the statistics look fantastic. Let's combine this with totalitarian surveillance, to enforce compliance. What a wonderful world!