Florida Red Light Camera Law Doesn't Care Who's Driving: Car Owner Fined

Florida Red Light Camera Law Doesn't Care Who's Driving: Car Owner Fined

from the as-long-as-the-city-gets-paid,-who-cares? dept

There are an awful lot of problems with red light cameras -- starting with the fact that they don't actually decrease accidents or make the roads any safer. Most evidence suggests the only thing they're really good for is increasing the revenue for a city -- which is why a bunch of cities have broken the laws over the years and shortened the length of the yellow light to "catch" more red light runners -- while also actively ignoring any actual data around the cameras. Reader Gabriel Tane points us to a newly proposed law in Florida for red light cameras that, on top of everything else, would automatically fine the owner of the car even if he or she wasn't driving. It's difficult to see how this is reasonable... unless of course this law has nothing to do with making drivers safer, and is, instead, a way to raise extra money for a city.

SOURCE: TECH DIRT