If you’re thinking in tickets and arrests, you’re not really thinking about justice.

  • booty [he/him]
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    202 years ago

    babe wake up new car theft robot just dropped

    seriously that shits impressive, i would never have thought something of that size could just yoink a whole ass car

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]M
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    152 years ago

    wojak-nooo NOOOO! There must be constant, agonizing punishment for every crime!

    anarxi I have parked your vehicle in an annoying place

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    82 years ago

    That’s…

    I HATE PUNITIVE PARKING RULES.

    Just pure vision goes red rage, because the people who get tickets, who get towed, they’re people who can’t afford garages. They can’t afford off-street parking. They have to park somewhere weird because their job is in some goddawful place. It’s poor people. poor people get hurt the most by fines, by towing, by financial punishments.

    Seeing someone, somewhere, not do that is incredible.

  • Bassword [he/him]
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    12 years ago

    They’re probably giving out fines too. China loves using small fines for minor crimes.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]OP
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      62 years ago

      Small fines consistently applied are more effective than random large punishments in deterring crime. Some cities even have fair checkers who can’t give out tickets, just ask you to get off at the next stop and it’s just as effective.

      • booty [he/him]
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        52 years ago

        More effective than random large punishments, sure, but fines are still a fundamentally ineffective way of discouraging whatever behavior. If something is punishable by a fine, that means poor people aren’t allowed to do it and rich people are, nothing more and nothing less.

          • booty [he/him]
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            22 years ago

            Fine as a portion of income.

            No, that really doesn’t fix it. 50% of Elon Musk’s income is an absurd, unfathomable amount of money, and it could vanish into the ether without affecting his quality of life at all. 50% of the average person’s income would put them on the streets.

  • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
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    102 years ago

    They actually do this in my neighborhood in Chicago. Not with a robot, with a regular tow truck AFAIK. But when there’s a race or festival or whatever, the city just drops cars a couple blocks away. There’s always a couple confused posts in the neighborhood Facebook group looking for their car, which I imagine is punishment enough

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    312 years ago

    If a Silicon Valley bro had come up with this and pay gated it behind an app called “Parkrrr”, Redditors would soyface all over this.

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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    62 years ago

    Purely from a utilitarian point this is far more effective anyway. I imagine you can carry multiple of these in a police car or have it stored nearby and using this disrupts traffic far less than an actual tow truck. Also seems to be far faster to actually solve the problem which is relevant for critical situations e.g hospitals.