system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: Speed cameras that mail you a speeding ticket should 99% replace cops personally pulling you over (for speeding) in America

I say this knowing that I actually got way more speeding tickets from cameras than from cops. But that’s also part of the point.  

When I lived in Germany, they used speed cameras. Cops could still pull you over but it was rare. Some cameras were in fixed locations so if you lived there, you always knew where they were. They’d also set up temporary cameras in random spots so it was impossible to predict. The camera was of course equipped with a speed radar and would snap a picture of you if you were speeding past it. You’d even see the bright camera flash and think “fuck, they got me”. They’d look up the address associated with your plates and you’d get a ticket in the mail with your picture on it, how fast you were clocked, where, and what the speed limit was. Then you just pay it by mail or phone or online or whatever.  

Benefits:  
- Easier to catch speeders. More tickets, more revenue for the community. That or it’s better at encouraging the community to mind their speed more often, not just when they see cops.
- Doesn’t interrupt your day at all. Doesn’t make you late to work and sure as hell won’t get in the way of someone rushing a woman in labor to the hospital.  
- Less speeding stops by cops means less police interaction, therefore less incidents of police violence. It’s also one less way they can use racial profiling.  
- If multiple people are street racing, or speeding as a group for some other reason, *everyone* gets caught, not just whoever gets pulled over by the one police car on scene.
gpt
>Easier to catch speeders.

Most speed cameras take a picture of the vehicle and the license plate, not the driver. Cars don't get speeding tickets, people do. While there are SCOTUS precedents saying an officer may assume the registered owner of the car is driving for purposes of initiating a traffic stop to arrest a wanted person; you can't just give a ticket to the registered owner. You have to prove they were driving. This also leads to the loophole of vehicles being registered to companies instead of people. 

>Less speeding stops by cops means less police interaction

You paint this in a bad light. Many dangerous criminals are taken off the street as a result of a simple traffic stop for a minor infraction. This helps to fight human trafficking, sex trafficking, drug smuggling, etc.

>If multiple people are street racing, or speeding as a group for some other reason, everyone gets caught

Everyone gets identified, but it doesn't immediately deter the dangerous activity. If a group of street racers are racing each other, they could crash their car into an innocent bystander, injure themselves or each other. In the moment, they aren't thinking about getting a ticket and likely don't care. Even if law enforcement doesn't catch all of them, they have still accomplished the goal of deterring the activity.