I was disabled by a terrible driver while riding a bicycle to work. My life is nearly completely forfeit due to cars. Still, authoritarianism of a surveillance state is not an answer. Do not use my story and suffering as a catalyst for a terrible dystopian future. Anyone that demands trust is authoritarian. Abstractive big picture logic skills are seemingly rare these days with people plugged in to emotionally controlling media. Democracy and citizenship have an ugly side too. Owning information about a person to manipulate and exploit them is a new form of slavery. It is literally owning a part of a person against their will, knowledge, and interests. All of these systems are 3rd party and are used to track, own, and harm people. I completely support anyone fighting back against such a war on democracy. That is a cause worth fighting. It will impact people for centuries to come due to the horrors being implemented now before a lackadaisical public blind to the long term implications. You already own nothing, and all information is filtered through the fewest number of people/companies in all of history. Citizenship and democracy are therefore nearly meaningless. No one will make you a slave by name, they will make the word citizen equivocal.
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Would a red light camera have saved her though?
What would have saved her: physical infrastructure that prevents cars from moving at dangerous speeds in areas where pedestrians are present.
Would a red light camera have saved her from a speeding car? No. Would a red light camera have stopped the speeding car from being a factor at all? Maybe.
Cars have to interact with pedestrians at some point. For every reckless act by a selfish driver that results in a child being murdered, there will be hundreds, thousands, maybe tens of thousands of similar reckless acts carried out by similarly selfish drivers that - purely by chance - don't cause a child to be killed. If drivers were caught and punished acting like this the majority of the times it doesn't result in a death, they'd be less likely to be in a position to slaughter pedestrians on the unlucky days in the first place.