<human>: Can you provide a brief rundown of the text in within 3 sentences?

Driving to the airport today I hit stopped traffic because of a cop was issuing a speeding ticket.  I personally have a very clean record (1 ticket in 12 years) but I think the whole idea of variably punishing people for bad driving doesn't work, creates traffic flow problems and takes cops away from responding to other crimes.

Here's what I would do.  Police should not pull over people for speeding or other minor moving violations.  Instead they should record the license plates of offenders and have an automatic system to mail out tickets to the owner of the car.  The system could take a picture of the car, have both time and geo-location stamps, include the officer's badge number and reason for the violation.   

Fines should also be relatively small (e.g. $10 a pop instead of $200) and should be easily contestable.  This way if someone is a frequent offender they will have to pay a lot aggregated over time but  someone who only offends occasionally won't be punished harshly.  Contestability is important because there will be justifiable grievances that don't deserve a trip to the courthouse.  This allows people to deal with the occasional erroneous ticket but a frequent offender (who may try to contest every ticket to avoid fines) would still receive punishment in the form of a small consistent hassling.

Finally, the system should make some of the automated data publicly available so that research teams, citizens and the government can evaluate the effectiveness of the program.  Geo and time stamps will let people identify spatial and temporal problems.  Offender information should be kept private but the officers number should be available to identify abuse (e.g. an officer with a high rate of contested tickets).  Having the data available makes the system more transparent and gives researchers the chance to make improvements.
<bot>: Tickets are a waste of time and ineffective.  Don't pull people over but send tickets through mail.  Make records available online so that people can keep tabs on officers and reconcile abuse.