This is a dumb idea. What I see when driving every day is a bunch of people who don't follow traffic laws, and no police enforcement. In fact, this morning I saw a car fail to merge properly (using the median instead) right in front of a City of Birmingham squad car. The policeman did nothing. Most municipal police departments can't be everywhere at the same time, so the few instances in which they can enforce the law, perhaps they should do that.

The only time I see a traffic law enforced in the state of Alabama is during a "Take Back our Highways" campaign, which happens once or twice a year. If this is as good as they can do, I think we should do away with traffic laws entirely. Nobody follows them, anyway. Then the role of the police department would change from driving around and doing nothing, to becoming crime detectives. Alabama's two state troopers could continue to patrol the highways for the occasional car doing 150 mph. The minimum speed on I-65 from Birmingham to Montgomery is 80 mph, unless you want your doors blown off by passing cars, or if you're in the left hand lane doing 80, you want to be tailgated by an insane soccer mom talking on the phone and driving a 4-ton SUV.

In Asian countries such as Vietnam, there appears to be no traffic laws. It works pretty well because nobody can drive faster than 15 mph, since nobody stops for anyone and the roads are clogged with bicycles and mopeds. Sounds great! Let's sign up for that plan.