These Drivers Got Caught Speeding 16 Times in 12 Months

Ultimize. In New York City, there's a tiny group of drivers causing a massive amount of danger, and the city knows exactly who they are. They're called super speeders. These are drivers who get caught 16— not once or twice or 3 times, but 16 or more times in a single year on speed cameras. There are about 14,600 of them, less than 1% of drivers. But they rack up staggering numbers of violations. Some of the worst offenders have been caught over 1,000 times, and they're still on the road, believe it or not. New York City has drivers who've been caught speeding more than 1,000 times. At that point, you're not breaking the law, you're stress testing the concept of consequences, because right now speeding in America is basically a lottery. You speed, maybe there's a camera, maybe there's not, maybe there's a cop, maybe there isn't, and most of the time you win. That's the system. So of course people keep doing it. If 99 times out of 100 nothing happens, people will take that bet all day long. This isn't a mystery, it's a probability. And we built a system where reckless driving is statistically rewarded. Crazy. Now here's what's actually being proposed. New York is considering requiring those repeat offenders to install speed-limiting devices, technology that physically prevents a car from going far above the posted limit. And when New York City tested similar speed limiter technology in part of the non-emergency fleet, speeding dropped by 64%. So again, this isn't theoretical, it works. But let's be honest about something much bigger. We really wanted to stop dangerous driving, we could do it almost overnight. You could install automated speed cameras, license plate readers, and radar sensors on virtually every street in a city like New York, or for that matter, across America. These systems already exist in other places. They automatically detect your speed, capture your license plate, issue a fine, and log repeated offenses. No cop, no traffic stop, no argument on the side of the road, just math. Now, this isn't science fiction. The country of Qatar already uses automatic— excuse me, automated traffic cameras and radar systems to detect violations and issue fines electronically. I've been it, I've driven past it, I've seen it. Studies of fixed-speed cameras in Qatar have base— have specifically looked at driver compliance across dozens of locations because this is a real enforcement model. It's not a fantasy. Kuwait has also used smart cameras and mobile radar systems for automated enforcement, with reports of major reductions in violations and accidents after using AI-powered cameras, mobile radars, and electronic ticketing. The point is not that Qatar or Kuwait is some perfect model of freedom. The point is that the technology exists It works and everyone knows it works. People slow down when they know they're not playing the lottery anymore. That's the key. Right now, speeding in America feels like gambling at a casino where the house usually lets you win. You speed, nothing happens. You speed again, nothing happens. You speed a third time, maybe once in a while you get a ticket for $50, $100. That's not enforcement. That's a mild subscription fee for driving like a maniac. If every street in New York had automated speed enforcement, the psychology would change instantly. First violation, fine. Second violation, bigger fine. Hit a serious threshold, say thousands of dollars in unpaid fines or repeated dangerous offenses, and your car gets flagged. Keep going, your car gets immobilized or impounded game over. In every street in New York, or if every street in New York had automated speed enforcement, speeding would disappear almost overnight. Not because people suddenly become saints, because the odds change. Right now, speeding is like gambling at a casino where you win 99% of the time. And hey, yes, I have speeded before. I'm not proud of it. Of course people keep playing, but if you knew every time you sped you'd get caught, fined, and eventually lose your car, guess what? You wouldn't speed. I know I wouldn't. Or you do it once and that would be the last time. This isn't about human nature suddenly improving, it's about incentives. Change the odds and you change the behavior instantly. Now let's talk about red light cameras because we've already run this experiment. Red light cameras photograph vehicles that enter intersections after the light turns red. The system records the violation, captures the plate, and sends the ticket. Again, no cop standing there, no chase, no confrontation, just evidence. And the research is clear. It's clear enough for normal people to understand. Red light cameras reduce the most dangerous crashes, especially front-into-side collisions, the kind where someone blasts through an intersection and T-bones another car. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says red light cameras reduce fatal red light running crashes, though they can increase rear-end crashes, which are usually less severe. A newer analysis found that even without automated emergency braking, red light cameras would cut injury crashes by as much as one-fifth and reduce crashes overall. So what happens? People complain. They say it's unfair, it's invasive, it's unconstitutional. They say it's just a money grab. And sometimes politicians get scared and shut the programs down or weaken them. It's happened in communities where I live. So we know the pattern: technology reduces harm, people get angry about being caught, politicians, they just cave. Then everyone goes right back to complaining that government doesn't work. That's the heart of the problem. Americans love to say government is inefficient, and sometimes it is, but in cases like this, we're demanding inefficiency. An efficient system would be simple: constant monitoring, automatic enforcement, real consequences, no loopholes, no 'I got away with it.' Deep down, a lot of people just don't want that. They want safety in theory and flexibility in practice. They want government efficient enough to protect them from everyone else, but inefficient enough to let them break the rules when they're late for dinner. That's not a political philosophy. That's toddler logic with a driver's license. Meanwhile, the stakes are enormous. There's an estimated 39,345 traffic deaths deaths in the United States in 2024, 36,640 in 2025. Speeding was a contributing factor in 29% of all traffic fatalities in 2024. So no, not every road death is caused by speeding, but speeding is a major, major part of the slaughter. And yes, I'm using the word slaughter because when tens of thousands of people die every year, and we already know ways to reduce it, the word accident starts sounding a little too polite. Now bring in the future. Self-driving cars are no longer science fiction. They're already operating in American cities, and the strongest argument for them is not convenience, it's safety. The self-driving argument is simple: most crashes involve human error. Machines don't get drunk. They don't text while they're driving. They don't get road rage because someone merged in front of them. They don't decide to go 58 in a 25 because they're late for Pilates and believe turn signals are a form of socialism. If we actually value human life, the direction is obvious: more automation, fewer human-controlled vehicles, and more safeguards on the humans who remain behind the wheel. That could mean mandatory speed governors for repeated offenders. It could mean built-in breathalyzers. It could mean automatic restrictions for drivers who prove over and over again they can't be trusted with the machine that weighs more than 2 tons. Yeah, that's how much cars weigh. It's close to about 4,400 pounds. So folks, this is frustrating to me. Do I occasionally go over the speed limit? Am I perfect? No, I'm not. But the slaughter on our roads should be something that causes everyone to think we got to do better. So it's not just the United States. There are more than 1 million deaths on roads around the world each year. We're talking about pandemic-style deaths every year, and we just act like, "Oh, oh, hum, who cares? Nothing we can do." Well, there is something we can do. And what especially galls me is people who constantly moan and groan and whine about how inefficient government is. I see a direct correlation. The people who complain the most about government inefficiency are the very first ones to complain about things like red light cameras and automatic radar detectors that can reduce government spending collectively by millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars, because you don't need to have state troopers and police officers sitting in a big expensive car, paying their salary and time, pointing a radar gun, one of the— it could all be automated. But the people who claim they care so much about government efficiency are always the ones who say no, We want the government to be even more inefficient. It's an absolute absurdity. I'm TJ Walker. This is Filtered. There's more to come. Let me ask you something. How many times have you heard a great idea and thought, that's really useful, and then never used it again? It happens to all of us because without repetition, even the best ideas just fade. So instead of just collecting more information, do something different. 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