What happened to speed cameras only giving monetary fines and not affecting your license, since they can't prove who was driving?
fredoralive · 1d ago
A Driving Licence is ultimately a privilege and not a right, at least in the UK / most of Europe in general[1]. So either the registered keeper of the car[2] has to dob in the driver who did the speeding, or face their own consequences for not providing the information.
[2] Slightly odd terminology in the UK to handle the fact that car finance companies (etc) might actually own the car, rather than the person who has it on their drive.
idkwhattocallme · 1d ago
I just got a courtesy notice from the roll-out of these speeding cameras in San Francisco. This after getting 0 speeding tickets in SF for the last 15 years. It's admittedly had a chilling effect on my driving. It's hard for me to drive < 30MPH when there is no traffic. I have to deliberately focus on going that slow. I feel more compelled to take an uber.
[1] eg. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jun/29/transport.eu
[2] Slightly odd terminology in the UK to handle the fact that car finance companies (etc) might actually own the car, rather than the person who has it on their drive.