Goldenhawk
Well-Known Member
Great idea - but I have to gently argue the practicality. They'll make a stop in the first 30 seconds - and spend the next 10 minutes on the side of the road doing paperwork with that one driver, and as far as anybody passing them knows, it's just another speeding ticket. Net result, six tickets an hour and nearly zero effect on the problem. Until someone develops automated "ticket for texting" cameras that snapshot every car (yeah, I know how THAT suggestion will never fly on THIS forum, and I actually agree with those speed camera naysayers), your suggestion won't make a difference because it won't cause any fear.Wouldn't even need that to start out. Take the 4 most junior guys in the PD, one driver, one passenger, stick them in a 2 plain cars that have been impounded. Have one "crew" start in Solomons and drive north, the other at the AA county line and drive south. When they reach the other end of the county and turn around and start over. Passenger gets a decent digital camera to take "evidence" photos of the offending driver looking down, sideways etc for the court cases, make the stop, issue the fine and continue on.
Functionally, I don't see this problem ever having an law enforcement solution that works. The only possible solution (which also won't work for social reasons) is prohibiting phones from working while moving.
Or maybe autonomous cars. Which is where it's going anyway. In 10 years you won't be ALLOWED to drive a car manually, and the problem will go away. And we'll all just be sucked into the Matrix and spend our entire lives slurping "reality" from a screen.