Flock Blames Bad Data While Blowing Past Every Guardrail— Two journalists were stopped over a partial plate in an NCIC hotlist. Flock calls it a feature; the NCIC operating manual calls it a violation

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1276130/flock-blames-bad-data-while-blowing-past-every-guardrail-two-journalists-were-stopped-ov

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Footnote4aFlock Blames Bad Data While Blowing Past Every GuardrailTwo journalists were stopped over a partial plate in an NCIC hotlist. Flock calls it a feature; the NCIC operating manual calls it a violation.

Replying to @⁨Andy@programming.dev⁩

Radar traps. They only snap a picture if someone is going above the speed limit, in a wrong lane (e.g. bus lane) or over a red light.

Any arguments against them are usually analogous to sugar companies opposing a sugar tax because it would lead to poor grammy being unable to afford to sweeten her morning coffee anymore.

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Replying to @⁨hasnep@lemmy.ml⁩

speed bumps are distracting and pull driver’s attention from their surroundings, result in people accelerating loudly from bump to bump, create inconsistent traffic from people constantly accelerating and decelerating, are annoying on bikes when implemented poorly, slow down emergency vehicles, are annoying for everyone when somebody is pulling a trailer, are annoying for drivers who aren’t even speeding, create difficulty plowing…

a camera is just there and fines the owner of the vehicle