City councilwoman wants traffic cameras to dole out points, along with hefty fines

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't people challenge these tickets by just denying they were the ones driving? It seems like the city has no way of proving who was behind the wheel.

The ones without points are ascribed fines to the car owner. There would need to be a visual ID to assign points to a specific driver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't people challenge these tickets by just denying they were the ones driving? It seems like the city has no way of proving who was behind the wheel.

The cameras take a photo of the face of the driver + license plate. Plus they also record video. I wouldn't be surprised if facial recognition tech is used to match faces with drivers' license photos. If the match is above a certain percentage of accuracy AND the driver is the registered owner of the car, the points are assessed.

I guess wear a mask while you drive in DC?

[Anonymous]

There's a lot of studies showing traffic cameras disproportionately hit black drivers. This would be doubling down on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of studies showing traffic cameras disproportionately hit black drivers. This would be doubling down on that.

+1, it’s blatant, naked racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of studies showing traffic cameras disproportionately hit black drivers. This would be doubling down on that.

Putting aside the fact that the camera cannot determine the ethnicity of the driver before deciding whether to take a picture of a speeding car, traffic statistics tell us that speed and other forms of bad driving disproportionately affect black communities and kill black people. Would it not be more racist to just ignore the problem? Are the pocketbooks of black drivers more important than the lives of black victims of bad driving?

[Anonymous]

People will just go faster when they're out of range of a traffic camera to make up for the time lost when the traffic camera was watching.

[Anonymous]

She must want to lose her seat when re-election comes up. People will not go for this, even though they need to figure out how to stop the traffic accidents and deaths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She must want to lose her seat when re-election comes up. People will not go for this, even though they need to figure out how to stop the traffic accidents and deaths.

Isn't this understood by DC voters to be targeting MD drivers?

[Anonymous]

How does this work? How do they know who is driving the car?

I have never gotten a speeding ticket in my life. Oh wait, I got one once on Adams Mill Road. Major speed trap. But generally I don’t speed. I go 68 in 65 MPH zones.

But no. You cannot give people points based on cameras when you don’t even know who was driving!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does this work? How do they know who is driving the car?

I have never gotten a speeding ticket in my life. Oh wait, I got one once on Adams Mill Road. Major speed trap. But generally I don’t speed. I go 68 in 65 MPH zones.

But no. You cannot give people points based on cameras when you don’t even know who was driving!

How can you even impose fines if you don't know who is driving? Can't everyone who gets a ticket say it wasn't them, and that it's not their job to explain to the city who was driving?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She must want to lose her seat when re-election comes up. People will not go for this, even though they need to figure out how to stop the traffic accidents and deaths.

Isn't this understood by DC voters to be targeting MD drivers?

I think it's understood by DC voters are further evidence of the DC government's vendetta against all drivers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a ploy to get VA and MD to come to the negotiating table and introduce reciprocity for traffic tickets issued in DC.

MD and VA does not enforce payment of DC-issued camera tickets on its drivers. So MD and VA drivers can rack up thousands of dollars in tickets and not pay a dime. Nor will it affect the driver's insurance rates.

However, DC can impose points on drivers of other states. That will get the attention of MD and VA residents, plus their elected officials.

Carrot and stick, folks. That's all this is.

DC cannot impose points unilaterally on drivers in other jurisdictions. Not sure where you get that from. And any summons they would issue for a camera ticket would be legally unenforceable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a ploy to get VA and MD to come to the negotiating table and introduce reciprocity for traffic tickets issued in DC.

MD and VA does not enforce payment of DC-issued camera tickets on its drivers. So MD and VA drivers can rack up thousands of dollars in tickets and not pay a dime. Nor will it affect the driver's insurance rates.

However, DC can impose points on drivers of other states. That will get the attention of MD and VA residents, plus their elected officials.

Carrot and stick, folks. That's all this is.

How can DC impose points on drivers of other states? If this is their ploy to get MD and VA to come to the negotiating table, they are going to wait a long time...

[Anonymous]

How did she get elected with this type of thinking? One should wonder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did she get elected with this type of thinking? One should wonder.

Because the voters who actually live here and deal with the crazy MD/VA drivers speeding recklessly through our neighborhoods day in/day out are strongly supportive. All the whining and moaning is coming from people who don’t live or vote in DC. Drive the speed limit or stay tf out of our city, I could not possibly feel less sympathy for you.