You can piss, moan, sign petitions, demonstrate - whatever. You can't overcome the money being made. Only if Traffic Judges/Cops and Politicians began turning up dead with notes pinned to their bodies saying `No More´, would anyone begin listening - but who's going to do that? And even if this did happen, the State probably would only assign body guards to the Judges and Politicians and armored cars to everyone.

Since there is no Privacy Protection in the United States, it really makes no difference who owns the Box or if a Court Order would be required to access its information. Laws would be passed or exceptions would be made to circumvent whatever obstacles stand in the way of money.
Anyone who thinks otherwise should ask himself why the Insurance Industry has access to an individual's Driving Record - an act totally illegal where I live.

There are ways around the cameras but probably nothing anyone here is willing to do. I spent a little over 6 weeks in the States last year and was photographed 2 times which I know of. This makes a total of 6 times I have been flashed for Speed in the past 3 years.

If this idea could be applied to a portable navigational device's Points Of Interest, it seems it would be more practical and user friendly. Speed Camera Data Base does something like this with fixed cameras but can't address the bigger threat in North America which is the radar guns mounted to the dashboards and/or rear package trays of moving vehicles.

Be it logic, freedom, privacy or safety, when competing with money, money will always win. It's the American Way.

Another example of the legalized corruption of the Traffic Enforcement Systems in the United States. Land of The Free - Bull! I feel much safer from the Police in Mexico than in any State in the US.

What I don't get is that people are not up-in-arms over the fact that the Government allows personal driving records to be accessed by non-goverment agencies. In Mexico and Germany, this is a privacy issue and is illegal. It's a great scam though. The Government requires US drivers to have insurance and then allows the Insurance Companies to charge what they want. Another example of the corruption in the US Traffic Enforcement System.

It's articles like this which make me thankful I live in the Land(s) of The Free instead of the United States. Whether it is by law or the laissez-faire attitude of the people regarding their laws, I am protected from the bend-over-and-take-it-without-a-kiss trash which is increasingly destroying the Quality of Life in the USA.

The IHS has a vested interest in Speed Limits. First they claimed 25% of all accidents were caused by Speed. Next it was 30%. Now it's edging toward 35%.
Running a Stop Sign while drunk and driving over the Speed Limit does not mean speed was the culprit if a crash occurs - except when someone who is representing an industry's financial interest is compiling the statistics.
Studies in Canada, Florida and California have shown that accidents causes by driving too fast for conditions (not necessarily over a given Limit) were from 1,5-6% of all crashes. I remember the report done in California, which was released after the US National Speed Limit was repealed, saying that, even though 6% of accidents were the result of driving too fast, 76% (I think it was 76% but not positive) of all tickets written by the Highway Patrol were for driving over a Speed Limit. Of course, the State also has a monetary interest in Speed Limits.

To raise your driving IQ a few points above my dead Uncle, let me give you two examples of what Nevada does regarding citations for Driving Too Fast For Conditions (DTFFC).
A former co-worker was ticketed for DTFFC when he banged into the car in front of him during Stop & Go Traffic. He should have been stopped.
A woman driving her huge SUV ran a Stop Sign while talking on her cellular phone, hit a car and killed both occupants. Among other things, she was cited for DTFFC because she should have stopped.
These bogus violations were added to the accidents caused by DTFFC statistics which are used to justify the increasing use of Speed Traps everywhere in the State BUT Intersections.
Of course, this was a few years ago. I'm sure Nevada is more honest now.