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Sweet land of traffic stops

More states are toughening mandatory seat-belt laws in search of cash: for one thing, the federal government bribes them to do so, and that’s aside from the ticket revenue.

Filed under: seatbelts, traffic laws

  • By Walter Olson
  • February 5, 2009
  • One Comment

One Comment

  • or they can just reprogram the lights to catch more motorists…
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/italian-red-light-cameras-rigged-with-shorter-yellow-lights.ars
    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/06/009214

    • February 06, 2009 8:08 AM
    • By EarlW

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