[ehnto]

I am very torn on this, because something absolutely needs to be done about phone usage while driving as it's just genuinely shocking.

On the other hand, such pervasive and ever present law enforcement is oppressive. If the majority of your citizens are breaking a law, then your citizenship clearly thinks the law is unnecessary. We give road laws a pass because safety is quite provable through studies and we listen to our researchers, but if we scaled this out to all crimes (like jaywalking) I think you would see just about everyone is a criminal eventually.

[yunnpp]

> because something absolutely needs to be done about phone usage while driving as it's just genuinely shocking.

It's actually very simple. Put a cop by the sidewalk, have them stop people and issue a fine. You'd be making several grand every day. I would do it myself, but I am not authorized to stop people and take their money. There is no need for cameras when the violations are so blatantly obvious and recurring.

[ehnto]

They did this for a while, I don't know what the outcome was.

[jackvalentine]

> If the majority of your citizens are breaking a law, then your citizenship clearly thinks the law is unnecessary.

Which law do you think the majority of the citizenship here is breaking?

[ehnto]

I'm not thinking of any, we wouldn't know until we had infallible ever present enforcement.

[tencentshill]

In a democracy, that policy would get you removed from office. Don't hassle your own voters.

[ehnto]

It is currently developing in Australia, we will probably find out what the limit is if it starts impacting the vote.

[jackvalentine]

The people fined for doing the wrong thing are an absolute minority of voters and the majority supports this kind of thing.