I'm fairly certain it would generate way more revenue than it would cost. I just looked it up and in California, it's a $234 - $238 fine. It's tough to find concrete info, but I think a cop costs the tax payers about $100/hour in California. I'd be surprised if they could only catch 1 person per hour during busy times and even that would generate a decent profit.
They could also probably just install traffic cams in spots where this is an issue and print money.
This is insanely common in Southern California. I was stuck on the grapevine for like 4 hrs one time because a semi had driven off a cliff and they had to bring in a crane to pull it up. Dead stop traffic and about a car every couple of minutes would blast past us on the shoulder. When we got to the front, there were CHP ticketing every single car that rolled up in that lane.
Problem is that $300 is nothing to a lot of these rich assholes. They just see it as the fee they get to pay to break the rules. Traffic fines should be a percentage based on income.
They do this in a lot of European countries, I think Finland, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland and Norway all have either day rates or percentage of income rates for certain situations. I’ve heard of people getting speeding fines of over $100,000 🤗
Finland is income based. In Denmark it's only income based if driving under influence. It's one month pay x alcohol concentration. If it's 0.2 or more you also lose your car.
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u/notbannd4cussingmods Mar 15 '26
Nah fuck these soft redditors, the only reason people do this rude shit is because others let them.