For a while last year I wanted to do this project where I documented every time I observed someone sucking at driving. After I had enough photos I would have either posted them some where, or hosted some impromptu bull shit art gallery showing. Ultimately the idea was this would all be ironic and hypocritical in the eyes of many of my friends, due to the gossip meme that I myself am a bad drive, which would have been the point of showing off the photos.
Any how here’s the lot of what I shot with my Hiptop’s shitty camera while I still had a car.
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Oh my how i wanna borrow this idea from you. . . . especially since i just crossed the country by vehicle. . .
By all means, please do.
I’ve always wanted to create a database with people’s license plates so that you can register a complaint with their driving. i.e. Plate #123 ABCD: That was a shitty thing you did when you cut me off on Thursday morning on I-80.
Then people both have an opportunity to vent, as well as a way to connect with drivers. for example if I was #123 ABCD I could reply to that person with “Sorry, there was a wolverine in my lane and I had to get over ASAP.
But I worry that there might be some privacy issues or backlash.
I think there would be many legality issues with that. If only there was a way around it.
actually, this just sparked me to do a quick search on it and I landed on Does a Motorist have a Privacy Interest in their License Plate. Looks like privacy doesn’t cover license plates in some sense:
“Furthermore it seems plain to us that there can be no expectation of privacy in one’s license plate when it hangs from the front and the rear of one’s vehicle for all the world to see. This conclusion is consistent with other jurisdictions that have pondered this issue.”
But this article is all about police running checks on license plates without any specific reasons. I’m not sure if this “no expectation of privacy” would extend to using it in a public sense.
I’m surprised you don’t have a picture of me in that set.
(Don’t do it, btw.)