# New types of traffic cameras allowed by the state legislature have the potential to lead to big safety gains in Seattle -- but a potential clash over how those cameras are deployed could be on the horizon. SDOT and transportation chair Rob Saka are not seeing eye to eye.
I remember a Freakonomics episode that described an experimental alternative to traffic cops: a “good driver” lottery.
If you’re “caught” driving the speed limit, you get entered into a lottery. Less adversarial relationship with traffic cops and more drivers would be incentivized to drive safe more often.
Edit: It was apparently an article, not a podcast.
I heard that episode before. Its good stuff. Unfortunately reality includes other people. Today, Sunday, I was driving from the local park to the house with all my kids onboard. The road starts as a 30mph and a minivan was following very closely behind my bumper. The road changes idiotically to a 25mph zone. So I slow down. Its 25 everywhere… Painted on the floor and on a blinking speedometer sign showing your speed and the required 25mph. The van start almost kissing my bumper. I make my left turn into our street and as I’m making the turn the guy honks and steps on it. Those people need to be bus riders. They are dangerous.
I remember a Freakonomics episode that described an experimental alternative to traffic cops: a “good driver” lottery.
If you’re “caught” driving the speed limit, you get entered into a lottery. Less adversarial relationship with traffic cops and more drivers would be incentivized to drive safe more often.
Edit: It was apparently an article, not a podcast.
But that would require giving money away rather than making money.
I heard that episode before. Its good stuff. Unfortunately reality includes other people. Today, Sunday, I was driving from the local park to the house with all my kids onboard. The road starts as a 30mph and a minivan was following very closely behind my bumper. The road changes idiotically to a 25mph zone. So I slow down. Its 25 everywhere… Painted on the floor and on a blinking speedometer sign showing your speed and the required 25mph. The van start almost kissing my bumper. I make my left turn into our street and as I’m making the turn the guy honks and steps on it. Those people need to be bus riders. They are dangerous.
Maybe they would have been a better driver with the lottery system. Clearly current criminality didn’t help your situation.
Just fucking stop in the road at that point. Or tap your breaks.