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If you ever get curious, PieFed has a list of differences. https://join.piefed.social/features/

Nothing wrong with Lemmy, really. The developers just have ideological differences.

That’s helpful for understanding the purpose of the device.

I’m still having trouble imagining how it works. Oh well.

I’d like to see how this affects Flock and other LPR camera systems that track everyone who drives, rides, or walks by.

Do LPR cameras like Flock next.

After we got the ticket in the mail I did some brief research on what a divided highway is, but non-residential didn’t pop up in any of the reading I did. Granted, I just got an answer and moved on, but maybe there are different definitions in each state. It seems like something that should be the same in every state, though.

NY. If the law was designed around rural areas, I would assume those areas would either have interstate highways with no houses on them, or two lane, non-divided highways with houses so you’d have to stop for a school bus in that case.

Divided highway can also be a little vague. In this case, the division is just a raised median. Not one of those angled concrete walls designed to lift cars and turn them back into their lane. Still, by definition it’s divided.

The place where my wife got tagged doesn’t require kids to cross the highway. The bus stops in front of their house, and there are no houses on the other side of the highway. Even if kids did have to cross a 4 lane road, they’d do it before the bus arrives, right? I’m not sure.

I don’t know the logic they used when making it different than most other states. I think PA is similar, but I remember there being a small difference which made it a little more logical.

To be fair, people should definitely get fines for passing school buses. I’m more mad at the state for being different than the rest of the country and including divided highways in their school bus law.

My wife got a ticket from one of these things, along with 4 other people that you can clearly see in the evidence video they send you. A couple other cars knew to stop.

We live on the border with a state whose bus law makes no exception to the road being a divided highway. Apparently not even people who live in that state are aware, either. We learned the hard way.

The bus stopped on the other side of a 55mph road with a physical barrier down the middle. 4 lanes total.

Now we know the stupid law across the border. That bus alone probably generates $1200+ a day on that single stop on the highway.