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E-Paying Speeding Tickets

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-here's-a-great-idea dept.

lemonBoy writes "It looks like now I'll be able to pay off that speeding ticket in Texas...If you've ever been to Texas then you know about all the little burgs and villas...Paying that ticket in Hondo will be easier now that some municipalities are moving to the web for helping people pay fines." So here's the deal: Just setup cron to check & pay your fines (from a cellphone equipped PC in your trunk). Then you can speed at will (until you get to many points on your license, but we'll have to worry about that later).

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  1. Why pay the ticket at all? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    Go to the NMA's site and learn how to stick it to the man!

  2. Hey Why Not... by rnturn · · Score: 2

    ...just give the state electronic access to your bank account. That way they can merely do a funds transfer without bothering you.

    Seriously, IMHO, dealing with traffic offenses should be as big a pain in the ass as the government can possibly make it. Perhaps then people will treat driving as the privilege that it is and not a right.

    In Illinois, there is a fairly big to-do about cities that ticket people, take the money, and don't report the offenses to the state so that the points never go against your license. That's great. You could get hit, and possibly killed, by some jerk who was speeding and should never have even been on the road as, if his offenses had been reported properly, they'd be off the road since their license would have been revoked. If it becomes so easy to ticket people and they can pay for the picket right then and there, using their cellphone, while the officer waits, what's to stop these cities from ticketing you silly stuff like going 0.1 MPH over the limit or stopping 2 inches beyond the stop sign? The city makes additional money (``Hizzoner wants to make our city a better place to live and we think that's best accomplished by getting some mahogony conference room furniture...'') and they'll claim that they're just making the streets safer.

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  3. Not guilty! by layne · · Score: 2

    I'd like a guilty/not-guilty radio button at least. NG selection triggers an e-mail for virtual or live court appearance. Alternately, you should be able to elect to send evidence and arguments by smarmy power-point presentation or simply give the judge an URL and password for defense materials.

    There's one for developers given the profitability of specialized prison control systems and the like.

    E-just Municipal Commerce System

  4. The next logical step by rde · · Score: 2

    We've pretty much reached the stage where this is no longer news; the internet is as mainstream as it's possible to get now, and ecommerce is just seen as another option, albeit a handy one.
    I'm still getting used to this; I occasionally find myself surprised to see the internet mentioned on the tv news.