One potential problem I see arising from automated ticketting systems, is the problem of the driver getting a ticket, but no notification that they were in violation, so you could potentially ticket the same driver over and over with the driver not even realising they are being ticketted.

Here in the U.S., my family is from the State of Ohio. Now, in Ohio, there is a 'point system' with regards to drivers licenses. Different infractions are assigned different amounts of points - worse infractions get more points, a very minor infraction might get 1 point. When you hit some threshold amount of points, your driver's license is automatically suspended.

My family was on a trip once, and my father was driving. He flowed along with the other traffic on the road, not going faster than the other drivers, but not slower. We were travelling in another State, Illinois. Someone, later that day or weekend, told my dad how in Illinois, they use automatic cameras to enforce the speed limit and automatically ticket you. My father was worried that there were a few constuction zones we had passed through (maybe 4 or 5 of them as we crossed the State), and he got really worried that he was going to get 5 or 6 tickets for that one trip. Luckily, Illinois apparently either wasn't using cameras in all the zones, or maybe they just set them at a threshold significantly above the speed limit (say > 15mph over the limit), but whatever the case, my dad didn't end up getting a whole bunch of tickets.

My point in all this, though, is that if you have automatic systems that ticket people, but you don't notify them that they are in violation, they aren't probably going to *stop* violating - they'll keep on speeding, and potentially end up getting lots of tickets for what was, sort of, a single violation, and they might end up losing licenses.

If many thousands (millions?) of drivers suddenly started to lose their license because of these automatic ticketting systems, there's gonna be a huge public outcry, I would expect.

I would guess that the separation would be between adsense and everything else resulting in google selling space on its pages to adsense to use. This would make it more certain that the search results weren't being affected by the advertisements. (which seems to be the allegation)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU

-- "Can you point to a single instance of a company forcing users to buy a new peripheral rather than updating their drivers?"

Creative.

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