another LRC dumbass
today from stooge george giles:
Clarksville TN has installed a system of cameras on their traffic lights. This machine vision system is wired into the computer system that has license plate numbers. It generates citations for running red traffic stoplights. In the first month they issued over 5,000 tickets to people that run red lights. This is a test bed. The tickets are a revenue generator. Currently they do not get reported to insurance companies or add points to your license, but that may change with the stroke a bureaucratic pen. This is not to argue that this system as currently designed is not without fault, but to propose that with proper Human Action it can be a benefit to many.At approximately $100/ticket this is $500,000 per month or $6,000,000 per year. They already have plans to double the number of surveillance systems in place. Every other city in America will be envious and make this inevitable move. The cost/benefit ratio is compelling. As a Libertarian and proponent of Human Action I think this is a good idea. Driving is a privilege, not a right. Privileges must be earned and can be taken away.
therefore, taking this “privilege” is a right accorded… well, someone. try private property, asshole. and when it’s the great fiction “public” property, the question is who has a right to fuck with you driving. elementary for the non-stupid, yet the great social engineer wannabe george giles, posing as a proponent of private systems, has it dialed in, tyranny style.
Running red lights leads to a large number of fatalities per year. The driving privilege is a skill to be certified. I have 5 cars and 3 male drivers under the age of 25 on my insurance plan. I have to re-certify their college GPA’s once per year to keep the $150/month discount it provides. This is most definitely a form of free market driving certification. Most people that speed do it because of bad planning and then doing things like racing to appointments, work etc, and putting other drivers at risk.
anyone else catching major control freak vibe from this colossal moron? most people “speed” because they recognize the foolishness of the state’s arbitrary and artificially low dicta. and calling state-shoved state-worshiping insurance “most definitely a form of free market driving certification” is infantile. more from the social engineer:
It would also be a good idea to put up a system of monitors to catch and punish tailgaters which is one of the most dangerous of all driving behaviors and the least enforced.
he’s almost making love to the state with this froth. hey, how about people who are comfortable tailgating find private roads where that’s cool? nah, it should be as dickweed dictates. oh he has a plan!
After this is put in place speed limits can eventually be raised for drivers that want to go faster, but cannot because of tailgaters [...]
a guy who’s apparently never seen the blue angels or thunderbirds:
The expressway system can easily handle speeds of 80 to 90 mph if tailgating [...] is enforced.
never mind his “enforced tailgating” confusion.
Law enforcement is a good idea for properly constructed laws. Cops should be punished if they are only writing speeding tickets, and not getting dangerous drivers from tailgating, and improper lane changes, that is a pattern that is tracked as well, but is difficult to enforce unless an incentive, both positive and negative is put into the enforcement system.
shaking my head in near disbelief that this swill was published at LRC.
The Federal Aviation Administration does not regulate speed, it regulates movement through altitude/direction regulations and separation of vehicles.
false. even disregarding the thousands of speed instructions issued by FAA controllers to planes daily, speed limits are part of the FARs.
All planes are tracked all the time by the FAA.
more bullshit from the confident ignorant.
I have not had a speeding ticket in more than 30 years because I do not speed. Speeding actually gets you to your destination slower if you are in or near a major city.
Driving slightly under the speed limit is actually better.
that “speed limit” jesus sent from heaven on his day off. state-slurping robot idjit. but wait, he’s gonna swing for it:
I have driven the exact same 20 mile stretch of interstate for so long that I recognize drivers, their cars and behaviors. I know every pothole and bump in the road. It can be shown using the method of characteristics and conservation of cars using first order partial differential equations that this is true. I empirically determined that if I dropped my speed from 70 to 65 that I made the distance in the same time, but dropped my fuel consumption by 10%. Drivers that raced by me at mile 65 were caught before my exit at mile 80. In college I drove the big rigs. It also served as an excellent pattern to observe driver behavior which empirically verified these assertions.
the real mind bender is why lew rockwell publishes such dreck. yes, morons, there are situations where lights or traffic jams make slower driving practical. that is hardly as universal near or in major cities as he asserts. traffic lights also support tactical “speeding”, for simply by accelerating to make a light you can gain minutes over those immediately behind you.
now here’s a shocker:
I served as the foreman of the Grand Jury in Madison County in the Great State of Alabama in 1998.
didn’t see that coming, huh? keep your vomit bucket handy:
It is up to those who understand freedom, property rights and defend liberty that this system, which will inevitably be put into place, be configured properly. It can be a cost-effective and self-financing technology that can save lives. It must be configured as a benefit for safe drivers and not just another etatist intrusion that degrades life in a myriad of ways.
“configured properly”, of course, means according to the ludicrous bias-based wankoffs of george giles. forget that he threw in a “property rights” bit; the rest of his article did.
funny:
George Giles [send him mail] is the founder of the Gonzo School of Economics, the radical branch of Austrian Economic Theory. He was the youngest Republican ever elected in 1972 at age 17. You could be elected at age 17 if the office was not assumed until after age 18. It only took 3 months of local GOP meetings to become a virulent Libertarian ever after.
“Libertarian”!