Arizona woman gets 70 speeding tickets in 5 months

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Posted Saturday, 12 August 2006, 17:53 HST @078

This article first appeared on my old blog at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wsodeman?id=42

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060811/us_nm/speeding_dc

“I don’t want to get off on a rant here…”
Dennis Miller, 1995

Reuters reports on mortgage banker Francesca Cisneros, who has been issued 70 different speeding tickets by the Police Scottsdale Francesca Cisneros, resulting in over US$11,000 in fines.

Until recently, she had been ignoring the tickets, which were mailed to her after police cameras recorded her Honda Civic violating posted speed limits around the city.

One important aspect of security is verification, especially involving one’s identity. Traffic monitoring systems such as Scottsdale’s sometimes take pictures of the car’s driver, in an attempt to verify the driver’s identity.

Another important issue is non-repudiation. This is an important consideration in digital agreements and e-commerce, as both the buyer and seller must pledge that they will not break their contract.

Driving is a good example of a social contract.

This article also involves the topic of reputation. The application of information technology and systems to traffic enforcement provides new opportunities to measure and share information about driver behavior and performance. Assuming that these systems can recognize and read license plates, it’s possible that these systems could identfy frequent offenders for additional scrutiny.