Neat little speed camera idea.

Stockholm, Sweden has adopted a Volkswagon “Fun Theory” competition winning idea by Kevin Richardson that not only tickets speeding drivers, but photographs drivers that are going under the speed limit, entering them into a lottery that uses the speeding fines as its prizes. More proof, as if it were needed, that incentives matter.

Radley Balko on speed cameras, statistical tomfoolery and perverse incentives here.

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