BIG NEWS: #TyreNichols’ murder reminds us that #police traffic stops can turn deadly. 400 unarmed drivers killed in 5 years.
I'm introducing the "Safer Traffic Stops Act". It would pay local governments to transfer traffic enforcement from armed police officers to cameras or civilians.
@alpha1beta @RitchieTorres I'm not sure what those drug dealers would do to the cameras.
If we can eliminate toll booth jobs, I'm pretty sure we can automate speeding tickets.
@the_ray_archie valid point, although that would probably hurt society more as a whole, depending on how sensitive the system is and every red light camera I know of is pay it and plead guilty or risk getting points for fighting it. In my state its unconstitutional and unless you had 100% coverage, you'd mostly just get people who slow down at certain points and speed back up, doing no real good.
But there's plenty of things you can get pulled over for that can't be automated - DUI etc.
@the_ray_archie I really appreciate how you phrased this. It's such a great question - the spreadsheet loving part of me says you could create a formula for enforcement costs vs lives saved, but on the other hand, some people would say even one life saved is worth it.
I guess I'd come away in the middle - if you save 400 lives by stopping drunk drivers, as long as you haven't caused similar harm, its probably a worthy investment.
@the_ray_archie That would be pretty funny. In the future, you're car would probably pull itself over, perhaps based on an AI or someone watching on a video.
Speaking of which, driver-less cars would solve almost all of this.
@alpha1beta Exactly. If I had a driverless car, it'd be working as a Lyft driver 90% of the time. My car is mainly parked these days.
If you do the math, it's cheaper to mainly do Lyft/Uber in most major cities than to own and fuel a new car. In the future, I hope there's some sort of decentralized ownership (timeshare model)
@the_ray_archie You mentioned Houston before, are you from there or a major city?
I'm from a very built up suburbia in NJ, last ~10 years in pretty rural NJ. I wonder how much our experiences and differences in policing affects our views on this.
In my part of the world, you cannot live without a car. Public transit is for getting to NYC or Newark and that's about it and Uber isn't reliable.
@alpha1beta I've been in media tech for TV and radio. My platforms are primarily streaming and real time streaming ad platforms. From the geek side, I have been fascinated with defining/monetizing inventory that's not clearly fixed. With hotels or planes, we have a fixed number of seats but with radio we don't have that clarity until you start thinking about "personality profiles"
I left that career to think more about how to apply similar strategies on behalf of creatives.
@alpha1beta creative. A musician so - music tech is appealing. But honestly, that's not an investable sector for silicon Valley.
I've found that the big-brother aspect of media is exactly the sexy investment that VC's want to see. Personal data and biz intelligence for big biz is currency. Employ that same technology for the individuals and it looses value.
@alpha1beta Here's an example, I helped to launch a company called TargetSpot that allowed local businesses to buy streaming radio ads at very low cpm's ($5 to reach 1k listeners).
Imagine a local restaurant, musician, or theatre company spending $100 to reach 20k potential local customers. That's empowering.
We spent millions to launch it. It recently got bought up by a general ad tech company.
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