Abstract
Safety. Mobility. Technology. Data. Equity. Autonomy. Community. Justice. Power. Trust. These themes have resonated over the last few years across a wide range of specific issues—some that are new and others that have only recently received the broader attention that they demand. A coming age of “perfect enforcement,” in which both public and private actors use increasingly powerful, pervasive, and affordable technologies to automatically identify and penalize every deviation from public or private rules, captures all these issues: They meet—in the language of physics, they interfere, whether constructively or destructively—to affect both perception and reality. The potential role of technology in enforcement is both important in its own right and useful for exploring the larger challenges and opportunities that these themes present. This article advances these discussions by focusing on the implications of this perfect enforcement for road safety, including opportunities for an alternative vision of “ideal enforcement.”
Recommended Citation
Bryant Walker Smith, Jeffrey Michael & Johnathon Ehsani,
Ideal Enforcement: How Do We Achieve Optimal Enforcement of Traffic Law as Ubiquitous Enforcement Becomes Technologically Conceivable?,
30
Mich. Tech. L. Rev.
(2024).
Available at:
https://repository.law.umich.edu/mtlr/vol30/iss2/6
