No More Speeding Tickets or Car Accidents with Driverless Cars?

By David Tapalian February 1^st, 2016

One would think we may not have speeding tickets in the future. There was an interesting article on this subject in this weekend’s Providence Journal. I don’t know how realistic that is and I am not sure that anyone does at the moment. Yet, if the driverless car does kill the speeding ticket it will place a big gap in many municipal budgets throughout the country. Chicago alone issues more than $1 billion in parking tickets and red light violations each year.

Without this revenue cities may have to find other sources; it could be increased property taxes. Maybe some type of driverless car tax? With less speeding tickets certainly should come less car accidents in RI and Massachusetts and that is certainly a good thing. However, the real question this article seems to pose is who will pay for the decrease in speeding ticket revenue. I think we will all find out in the not too distant future.