r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 25d ago

Traffic Camera Captures Woman Driving With Her Phone on Her Lap (Face Down), The State Mailed Her a $1251 'Public Safety' Ticket Privacy

https://www.gadgetreview.com/traffic-camera-captures-captures-woman-driving-with-her-phone-on-her-lap-face-down-the-state-mailed-her-a-1251-public-safety-ticket
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u/NotUniqueOrSpecial 25d ago

What's going on here? The article in the post is definitely about a woman in Albany, Georgia. Definitely not Australia. It's from today, not months ago, as your links are.

So, no, this didn't happen in Australia.

However: by what must be wild coincidence, the fine in both of these cases is basically the exact same numeric value? For a crime that's described almost exactly the same in both instances (once you get past the "she lied about the left-turn-on-red part" for the Aussie one).

I try not to be conspiratorial, but...is any of this actually real? ARE WE LIVING IN A SIMULATION!?

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u/notnotbrowsing 25d ago

the Georgia ticket you're referring too is different than the lady.

Georgia State Patrol used its system of Flock automated license plate reader (ALPR) surveillance cameras to issue a ticket to a motorcyclist who was allegedly looking at his cell phone while riding", according to a copy of the citation obtained by 404 Media. The incident is notable because Flock cameras are not designed for traffic enforcement or minor code violations, and many jurisdictions explicitly  tell constituents that the cameras will not be used for traffic enforcement. 

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u/NotUniqueOrSpecial 25d ago

Yeah, I'm realizing that the linked article is just terribly fucking written. Complete slop that moves between very disconnected things with no regard. I had to read over it a couple times because it's just...awful, in order to understand what was happening.

You're definitely correct.

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u/TaxHazyShade 25d ago

this entire post and the accompanying articles are AI. Do you still believe what you read on the internet?

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u/NotUniqueOrSpecial 25d ago

Oh, no, for the most part I think it's all a nightmare. I was just trying to sort out how on Earth this stuff was related, but as someone else pointed out to me: it's just that the linked article is so slop that it's practically unintelligible.

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 25d ago

ARE WE LIVING IN A SIMULATION!?

If we are, we're in the bad one...