<i>It should not be the choice between go to jail for the night, or pay a third party private company an extra 25%.</i><p>Considering how it works in literally every other state, where you&#x27;re arrested with no ifs ans or buts if you have outstanding violations on your record (and have let them lapse that far)...<p>Okay, you want to <i>remove</i> the ability for people to pay the fines on the spot? Because that is literally the only difference here. An option where one did not previously exist.<p>Now let me try to get in front of this thread. The answer to people being between a rock and a hard place with regard to traffic fines is, quite simply, to not get them in the first place, something which many people are able to do remarkably well.<p>This is not a popular statement of fact, the response to which is usually a list of edge cases about how someone didn&#x27;t see they were in the HOV lane, or rolled through the stop sign or did something else because &quot;everyone else does it&quot;, or whatever.<p>Okay, what&#x27;s your answer to that? Don&#x27;t give poor people tickets for breaking the law &#x2F; fine them less?<p>Bzzt. Unconstitutional on its face because equal protection, regardless of how you view the 99%&#x2F;1% class warfare issue.<p>So it sounds like we&#x27;re attacking this from the wrong side. The problem is not that perfectly legitimate fines are legally assessed and Bad Things happen to you when you don&#x27;t pay them. That is the system working as it&#x27;s supposed to.<p><i>I agree you need a way to go after scofflaws, but the they are a very small minority</i><p>The cavalier attitude with which people treat basic rules of the road would appear to indicate otherwise. You (again, random example) roll through a stop sign because you don&#x27;t think a cop is going to see it and the extra couple of seconds are that important, you&#x27;ve rolled the dice with full knowledge and consent.<p>Same thing if you&#x27;re not paying attention and miss something you&#x27;re obligated to not miss. Well, it sucks, but you&#x27;re in control of a multi-ton hunk of high speed metal and paying attention to your surroundings is <i>kind of a big deal</i>.<p>Sometimes the dice don&#x27;t go your way. I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s possible to concoct a law that is both constitutional in the sense of &quot;the same laws&#x2F;penalties for everyone&quot; and also adaptable to meet the needs of the violators.<p>Look at it this way - self driving cars are coming sooner rather than later, and most of these things won&#x27;t be a problem anymore.