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The United Kingdom relied heavily on speed cameras for decades. The Association of British Drivers was formed immediately after the first speed cameras were introduced and ended up being followed by the Motorists Against Detection. At the time, there was no shortage of government-backed studies claiming that automated speed enforcement saved lives. Traffic cameras aren’t just monitoring traffic anymore and drivers caught disregarding the rules are now subject to government authorities lowering their social credit score. And will the citizenry be broadly accepting of these programs or take the European approach of burning invasive traffic enforcement tools to the ground?