A Traffic Camera that Pays You! - That I can get behind!

Published Tuesday, December 7, 2010 11:18 AM





With the advancement of technology it seems law enforcement has only used it to be more annoying. Mostly with these new traffic camera's that can give you tickets for speeding and for running red lights. Not that I think you should be allowed to speed or run red lights I just don't like an inanimate object giving me a ticket.Well it seems Kevin Richardson has come up with a solution which he entered into Volkswagen's Fun Theory contest. His idea was "The Speed Camera Lottery", a device that would send tickets to speeders, but also enter people who obeyed the speed limit into a lottery to win money from those who sped. Pretty awesome idea if you ask me! Still doesn't make me feel better about getting a ticket from a mutant radar gun/camera combo, but the winning money part would be fun.They built one of these machines and put it up on a busy street. The average traffic speed went down 7km/hr, which might be do to the presence of a radar gun showing your speed, but cool all the same. If law enforcement started using technology for fun and corrective ways it could bring a balance to the force so to speak. Checkout the YouTube video of the camera in action.