[rbuswell]

This is good stuff. I actually agree that the robo-lights may do some good with red light runners. But the premise that you can fine an inanimate object for a moving violation just doesn't seem to hold water. Maybe it does work under the same theory that allows a municipality to fine a car for parking in the wrong place.

My reason for asking is more personal. My 82 year-old father who is now car-less [I hold POA so I had to do the dirty deed of taking his keys :-( ] got several of them before we confiscated the car. In fact, it was one of the many symptoms that made the decision easier. He won't be driving any more but I still have these hate-mail letters. If someone doesn't pay, what can the city do? I will be selling the car in a different state than my dad lives in so it will go out by a new title, etc. so I don't see how they can really collect. Any horror stories I should know about?