ASK a Traffic COP After Dark Replay for September 23, 2025

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It's that time again. Happy Tuesday, everybody.
My name is Shawn Shapiro, your favorite former police officer.
And I'm excited for tonight, notonly because I'm going to be
talking about a topic that I have been talking about non-stop
for about a week, automated enforcement.
We're talking about traffic cameras.
Oh yeah. Love them.
I hate them. You got something to say about
them? We want to talk to you about it

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and I say we because joining me on camera is the one the only
Brian Max driver and lover of fast things.
I think that's how you describedyourself in videos, maybe not
exactly, but sort of kind of. Close enough, racer, lover of
drive. Alright, I even forgot now.
You know, it's a bunch of stuff.Lover of driving fast?

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Fun things, Yeah. There you go.
That sounds very familiar. Good to have you.
I'm glad that you're able to join.
We are going to have some fun tonight because this is such a
polarizing topic. I have no doubt that people are
going to be, well, having opinions.
They're definitely going to haveopinions and, and it's, you
know, it's not just polarizing. People are coming at this

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argument from so many different directions.
It's, it's wild to see. And I have my, I have my own
thoughts on this whole thing, but it's, it's, it's impressive
the amount of attention that this is getting.
Truly. And I mean, I've had, I must
have been on five different media outlets between CB24
twice. I I've been on radio stations.

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I, I spoke at the City Council for Vaughn.
It was it, it's really being non-stop.
And of course, I had an op-ed published in the Globe and Mail.
So it's been busy, busy, busy all about this.
And I've been having a lot of fun with it because they're it,
it pisses a lot of people off, but they're, they're wrong.
At least that's my position. I my position is they're wrong.

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Some guy called into Zoomer radio today when I was on the
Libby's Nimer show for Libby Fights back.
And he was like, you have very linear thinking if you think
that people should get tickets for speeding.
And I'm like, I think you just want to defend speeding.
But anyway, he was angry a little bit.
That's that's wild. I, I have a slightly different

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nuanced position on this. And, and I think, and yeah, and
I think, I think the informationthat I'm able to share will be
enlightening because it it, it speaks to what, what's actually
going on beneath the surface of all of this.
Now, just to let everybody else know, and we'll get into all
this great conversation in a moment, but not only are we on

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the channels for voice over copper, we're also on the
YouTube channel for Brian Max and that is a source of
incredible information. If you have never checked out
his account, you need to check it out.
You need to subscribe to his channel because if you, if you
want to learn about new cars because you might be buying one
or maybe you just want to gawk at something you're never going
to buy. Whatever it is he he has been
reviewing cars there for a long time and you got great content.

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I I'm very impressed and I may have, you know, appeared in some
things. Yeah, you may have appeared in
some things and we have, we haveanother series on the go.
So you'll, we'll, we'll, we'll have you all over YouTube in no
time. Awesome that that is at Brian
Max on all platforms. And Davina, Davina Duckworth is
coming in through your YouTube channel saying hello and we have

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the technology. We can put that hello on the
screen. Magical.
And Davina does have a question and what is, what is the
question? Do we do we just jump into it?
Oh, by the way, tonight you can actually be on the show.
You can be on screen to do that.DM us.
What we'll do is we will actually, I'll send you a link,

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I'll send you an invite link andyou can jump.
So I need your actual e-mail address.
DM me. You can.
I don't want you to put it on screen for everyone to see
because that just doesn't sound like a good security thing.
But you can send it to voiceovercop@gmail.com.
I will respond with a, a login link.
That way it's a real person and we'll bring you on the show and
we'll have some fun shouting about it.
But Davina has this question. Given that a 23 year old woman

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was caught on the highway with an entire staircase on her car's
roof. Our drivers getting Dumber,
That's a different question altogether, isn't it?
I, I, I I got to say I don't have that.
On. I believe that's called the
loaded question. I, I, I normally have videos
like that loaded for play. I don't have that one today.
It's a good video you've seen. You've obviously seen this

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video. Yes.
And. It it is incredible.
Apparently they were not impaired because the Peel
Regional police officer who handles the, the Peel account
reached out and said no. Because I, I made the, the
allegation, the, the assumption,it's always, it's always wrong
to assume, but I made the assumption that it may have been
impaired by alcohol or drugs that would have paid played into

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that event. And and apparently no, they just
it. It unbacked into something and
then left. Amazing.
We could we could consider that being impaired by a lack of
common sense. That is, you know what they need
to add charges for that they they absolutely do.
That needs to be added to the Criminal Code of Canada, Yes, or

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at least the HTA. Now we have Tian who says.
Good evening everyone. Good evening Tian, good to hear
from you and Brandon who says hello Sean and Brian and all
hope you had an awesome day. Brian says Have you driven the
new Corvette ZR1 yet? No.
Is it ZR1 or ZR1? Which one's offensive?

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Z offends Canadians, as I know, but until Canadians become the
majority of my audience on YouTube, they're going to hear
Z. Very good.
Now you've you've heard from Brandon before in previous
conversations when you've guested on the show.
He is the the chap with the darkhorse and AC-8 if I'm not
mistaken. And now the the the stable has

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grown to include the ZR1. Yeah, well, I've, I've I've had
the the good fortune of putting on 1100 miles on AC7ZR1 manual.
It's Emmanuel, no less. I, I have, I have one photo of

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me in a car with, with, with thethe man, the myth, the legend
from the Ontario Provincial Police.
We have, we, we, we went for a lap around the Hyundai Indy
track in his OPP emblazoned C8 with both our heads sticking out
the top. So that's a thing.

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Yeah, well, you're, you're, you're both unusually tall.
And I think he, I think he wearslike thicker soles on his boots
just so he can get me by an inch, but just not, not, not not
really making the allegation, but I think it's true.
I'm just going to go and check to see if we have mail popping
in from anybody who might want to join us.

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Stand by because it's going to make sure I'm in the right
account. I see a bunch of stuff coming in
from from TikTok. By the way, TikTok, if you are
not following me, please do. I talk about Traffic Safety,
traffic along police stuff all the time and occasionally have
great guests like Brian, join meto talk about stuffing things.
And tonight we're talking about automated speed enforcement.
So if you, if you want to talk about that, jump into the

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comments, start making some comments.
And by the way, like share, tap the screen so your fingers go
down. It really does help get more
people to the party. And the more people in the
party, the more interesting the conversation gets.
What are you driving this week, Brian?
I just finished with a 2026 Kia Sportage X line which is the non

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hybrid refresh Sportage and actually drives really well and
you know got to say for under 50grand you can't go wrong for a
crossover. OK.
And I'd fit in it. No, it's always the question.
It's always the question. Yeah, someone, whoever would be
sitting behind you would not be comfortable.

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OK, this is really bothering because I, I logged in earlier.
That's right. I'm, I'm going off topic for a
second. I, I, I logged in earlier to the
account and now maybe it was in a different browser.
OK, let's go into a different browser.
I want to get into the appropriate Gmail account so I
can go and check and ensure thatwe are getting e-mail from ask a
traffic hub. That's the e-mail I shared.

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OK, we'll come back to that in asecond.
We have automotive addiction. Who says, who asks?
Who sets the fines for speed cameras?
Town, city or government and I can answer that.
You want to weigh in, Brian? Is that where where you think
it's all going? Well, I, I, I know from
experience, it's the city. Is that the fines or the where

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the money gets it? They get the money.
It's. The fines, so that, so that is
the question. Oh, that's probably the that's
probably the province that sets the fines.
It's based on it's standardized fines for the province.
They're doubled because it's a community safety zone, but it is
it is a it's provincial. There's no Toronto doesn't have

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a higher priced ticket for an offense than anywhere else in
Ontario. It's all standardized in in the
where the money goes. It's a split between the
province and the and the the city, the different deals for
different province. I think city of Toronto gets a a
bigger chunk than others might. But the the the the deal is it
is all standardized. So no one's get like you can't

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go to Branford and and have a fine.
It's more expensive unless it was a bylaw.
Bylaws they do set, so that's the thing.
That's the thing. But you know, there, there's a,
there's a, there's also see the,whenever we're ready to get into
this, the, into the nuance part of the, the speed cameras.

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And, and I don't even know the best way to phrase this because
I think the best way to say frommy experience, the the city of
Toronto has created a process inwhich it is impossible to defend

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legitimately against a a speed camera.
Well, you know, they have and you actually they changed was in
November it changed that or is it, is it last year November?
Is it changing November? It it's either just changed or
just passed last November. You, you no longer get to your
day in court. You talk to the administrator.
That's it. Correct, but it's it's, it's,

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it's even, it's even more more in depth and more, more
authoritarian than that. Let's just put it that way.
They created a process. I I, you know, I love it.
You know, I just love that when,when effectively I got AI can't

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even remember when it was probably in May, I got a, a, a
ticket. And quite legitimately, you
can't see the, the speed limit sign when you're, you're
proceeding towards the camera. And what they've done is, is
they've created a process with which they just ignore any

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evidence. And you'd you, you have no
opportunity to present other evidence.
How can they not? How can they not accept
evidence? Like if you have a legitimate
thing I'm all for follow the law.
But if it's a legitimate thing that the sign is obscured and
you're doing 50 because that's what it was on the other street,
and you got done for doing 10 over because it changed, but you

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couldn't see the sign because itwas obstructed, you are not
guilty. Seven over.
Yeah, precisely. You got ticket by 7 over.
Yeah, I think it was. I think that ticket was 7 over.
I've never even heard of one. It was, yeah.
And it was at the bottom of the hill.
Might be 8, but it's less than 10.
I, I mean, I have the, I have the file here, but I present the

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evidence that the sign is obscured.
I could, I could share that withyou and you can show it on the
screen. I have the video and photo.
You cannot see it from the, the,the driver's seat of a vehicle.
It's, it's impossible and they didn't accept my evidence.
So I'm like, no, no, no, no. So we're going to have a chat.
So had a chat with the administrator who had through

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the process could ignore the evidence that I provided and was
unwilling to unwilling to acceptit.
And so, you know, so I, I of course paraphrased and I said,
well, So what you're saying is that the City of Toronto's rules
process procedures now supersedethe Highway Highway, Ontario

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Highway Traffic Act, which provides for speed limit signs
to be visible to. Drivers, it's kind of a law and.
Yeah, well, it, it, you know which I, which I had with me and
he said, no, no, that's not whatI'm saying.
And blah, blah, blah, procedure,procedure, procedure.
And I'm like, I've provided evidence it was ignored the

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first time. I'm providing it again because
it was ignored the first time and now you're ignoring it.
And So what? What is happening in this
process is you are you are now telling me that the City of
Toronto's rules super CP on Ontario high traffic.
I think there's something fundamentally wrong with that.
There's no way that they can throw out actual evidence, but

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speeding is speeding. But if you're, if you're not
trying to speed, if you thought you were doing the right thing
and it was an obscured sign, that's different than you
choosing to do what you want, and that's clearly not what you
were doing. You thought you were doing the
right thing. I had, I, I, I guarantee I had
the, I had the, the, the, that vehicle on, on some kind of
cruise control because otherwiseI'll be going very, very fast.

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And, and it would that, that camera is located at the bottom
of a hill. So, you know, given that I drive
different cars every week, some cars are really good about
maintaining the speed that's seton the cruise control and others
have a little bit of latitude, especially when you're going
down a hill. And that was probably the case
in, in this instance. But you know, my, you know,

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brain that's, you know, velocitized and, and my ability
to, you know, stop a car quickly.
I'm not. So, you know, I, I, I, I might
notice a AA10 or 15 kilometer anhour difference at lower speeds.
But in this case, I, I didn't, Icertainly wasn't thinking about
any kind of danger because there's no traffic and and.

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That sort of thing. So I hear that a lot.
I hear a lot of people say that you know, it shouldn't it, it
feels like it can go faster or it doesn't feel like a 40 year
road and and that the, you know,they're built to accommodate
faster, thus the speed limits are wrong.
Well, that's, that's a, that's awhole other thing.
So I may have said more than 100times on my YouTube channel that
we have juvenile speed limits inOntario, but that's the, that's

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the surface level, right? And it, and it's easy to say
that, but there are many other considerations.
So we have to consider the, the road surface, which is terrible
because yes, I've driven all over Europe and I, I understand,
you know, how the Autobahn is serviced and it's not like here.
Secondly, we have drivers that have to meet, you know, is there

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a requirement to get a license in Ontario?
The ability to fog a mirror I believe.
That's breathing, right? The requirement.
We, we have incredibly low standards and we we've recently
uncovered, I've been seeing in the media truck drivers who have
been acquiring driver's licensesfraudulently.
I've no doubt that people of allshapes, sizes and backgrounds
have been doing things illegallyto get and obtain licenses that

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they have no business having. That's a thing.
So yeah, we need to do better. For sure.
So, yeah, I, I, I, you know, I don't agree with with these,
these advocates for higher speedlimits because the road surface
is not there, the skill set is not there just by the minimum
requirements to, to earn a license, whatever that is.

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And then the other problem that we have as a, as a driving
culture is that we don't have annual safety inspections on
passenger vehicles as they do inother jurisdictions, which makes
a heck of a lot of sense. Because, you know, often times
I'll look over at a car and I'llsee if the tires are completely
bald or I'll, I'll, I'll hear the, you know, the, the brake

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pad backing plate dragging against the rotor.
So you know they have no brake pad material.
Yeah, I they're, they're talkingabout bringing back an annual
inspection and right now and I, I, I didn't reach out to Melody
tonight. Who's our, our in house mechanic
who's joined the show last week.Last week we did the show with
Melody on screen the entire time.
She's a mechanic who answered questions for the entire

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episode. It was awesome.
So we may have to bring her backfor another one soon.
But you know, the, the, The thing is now in mechanics
safety, a vehicle, they photograph the sections that
they're noting. So there's a different level of,
of, of, of requirement there, which is good.
But should this be happening annually or or or very least
once a decade? Like something more than never?

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I guess something more than once.
Well, you know, when the, when the vehicle's plated.
Yeah. And I mean, I obviously I'm an
advocate for, for better driver training, having taught race and
driving performance driving for a really long time.
And you know, it's, you know, I when I, when I see when I see
people doing stupid things on public roads, it's like, yeah, I

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can tell you have the most you've done is played Gran
Turismo or Forza on. Xbox, there's a lot of there's a
lot of questionable stuff. I we got a whole bunch of
questions. I want to move on to a couple
things. One, I white shadow said, hey
Sean, stunt driving. A friend told me that if you're
in a speed zone 80 or less, it's50 over.
I was under the impression zero to 80.
It's only 40 a stunt. So would 120 and an 80 be stunt

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driving? So you're right, your friend's
wrong. If you are in a speed limit
under 80 or below 80, it's 40 over to get a stunt.
If you're 80 and above, it's 50 over.
So you can trigger it and it's 150 anywhere.
So if you're on a speed zone, you're, you're on the highway
and it's a 110 zone, 150 is still stunt driving.

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And a lot of folks get that wrong and they think that, you
know, I can do 140 something because it's, you know, I can do
40 over and not get caught on the, the highway.
And they're getting their their stuff taken because it's 150
anywhere. But I'm seeing ridiculous speeds
almost on on all roads on a 400 series.
And I frequent Barry. I am being passed like I'm not

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moving. There are multiple cars running
in like together as a pack doingall sorts of dumb stuff.
So yeah. Yeah, Which, you know, just goes
to the, you know, back to the usual point of take it to the
track. Like I was at the racetrack last
week and, you know, I'm going tothe racetrack next week and
I'll, you know, drive whatever speed I like.

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That's where you do it, where it's safe to do.
Honda Migs. Friend of the show is being
here. He's been back for a couple
episodes. Good to see you.
He asks. Can police officers run plates
from their cruisers whenever they want or is it something
they need to call in? Heard multiple things on it so a
police officer could drive around all day and punch in
every plate they see. In fact we have automated

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license plate readers in motor vehicles now that automatically
check license plates that they come across without a police
officer even having to type anything in.
And they cross reference every plate they see with a list of
wanted subjects, whether it be suspended drivers, uninsured
drivers, expired drivers, wantedpersons missing.
Like it's all happening automatically, but you can
manually run anything you want. There is no special rules.

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I mean, obviously it has to be for a police purpose.
You can't do it, you know, because you think the person
driving is attractive. That would be unlawful.
But you can certainly run them because you're investigating
them, period. They, they also let's, let's see
it's, it's averaging about twicea year, I think in, in the city
of Toronto where they do enjoy pulling me over because the

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automated plate readers recognize that I'm driving a, a
vehicle without a front plate and it doesn't recognize that
I'm driving a, a manufacturer plate, which does not require.
It's one of the few plates that isn't required to have one on
the front that like dealer plates in the same situation and
it confuses some coppers and andI would listen, I would be
caught in the same thing. No front plate.

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I'm going to investigate why. And it's not till you get to the
back and find out that it's and but a manufacturer plate doesn't
look like a manufacturer plate. It's just a blue and white
plate, right? Yeah, it's it's at the MFR is
vertical on the left side and and it's it's 3 numbers and
three characters. But it's it's it's not something
that at a distance the average person would identify, just

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looks like a blue plate regular like everybody else looks like a
lot, except there's only 1. So it's worth, it's worth, you
know, a little further investigation.
Stitch wants to know if there's rules where police can set their
radar be visible for a certain distance.
You don't have to be visible as a police officer.
You can be hiding in the bushes.Absolutely.
I used to. I'm a big man who stood behind
the very skinny pole and people still didn't see me.

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But the truth is, I used to stand in on the sidewalk wearing
a reflective vest, holding a speed measurement device, and
people didn't see me because I'mmeasuring you so far away that
you, you would, I'd be a speck in the, in the distance that the
but there's no regulation. I don't have to.
I can hide, I can be seen. Doesn't matter, which I think is
fair. I think if you're going to break
the law, you, you know, being able to hide and be invisible is

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good. That's why I'm such an advocate
for unmarked vehicles. People tend to do the wildest
things when they're in their natural habitat and there's
nobody you know from the humans watching them.
Oh, yeah, that, that's for sure,that's for sure.
I, I, I like every, every day because I, I, as you know, I
spend a lot of time on the road because I'm always driving

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something. And I am just astonished by the
amount of bad driving that, you know, the, you know, everything
from road rage to just, you know, treating driving as a
distraction. Davina has another question for
you. Porsche was going to cancel the
17718 boxer and Cayman. They reversed the decision due
to a drop in consumer EV demand.That's interesting.

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You're a big EV fan, aren't you?I I do enjoy driving EVs, but
I'm I'm I wouldn't call myself an EV fan.
I thought it was just hazard. Sorry I couldn't help myself.
We could, we could go down that road, but now the, the Porsche's

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in a lot of trouble. I think they posted a, a €5
billion loss over their EV investment.
And part of it was the cancellation of the, they came
into the Boxster, but they've, they just announced yesterday or
today that they're, they're going to keep them.
But the, you know, there are, there are various models of the

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9/11 that are now hybrid. So, you know, that's another pet
project of mine is the electrification of the
automobile. And we, we don't need to go down
that rabbit hole, but it's, it'snice to see a little bit of pull
back And, you know, just like the, the automated speed camera
debate, the EV debate is more nuanced than that in, in

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motorsport, we're going to a sustainable fuel.
So if that's the case, why, you know, why are we not looking at
sustainable fuels for internal combustion engine cars And that
being a thing, and it's not, so,you know, it's a, it's, it's a,
it's a, it's a complicated thing, especially when you have
politicians involved who are just, you know, point operated

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and and not, not fans of critical thinking.
Critical thinking. They say it a lot, but do they
really do it? That's the question.
No, certainly not when it comes,not when it comes to the
automobile. And and that you know, that's
that's, that's a that's a, it's a bit of a problem right now and
you know, this, this 0 emission vehicle mandate thing is not

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going away. So unfortunately what has gone
away are some lovely internal combustion engine cars.
So for fans out there, the HondaCivic Type R and the Acura
Integra Type S are no longer available for 2026.
Now I I interesting thing a buddy of mine bought a Porsche
and it's an electric one goes fast.

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I can't get into it. It's way too small.
He he replaces Panamera the the four door is that is that what
it's called the Panamera Panamera?
Panamera is a 4 door again a. 4 door I barely fit into that but
he went with the smaller, faster, more electric version.
He loves it. Well, it works properly and then
there's the I got an e-mail today from Tesla saying if I
want a brand new model 3 or brand new.

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It was a demo model. They they have demo models that
are offered at 16,000 below list.
And if you you have the option between an additional 5000 or
unlimited free supercharging forthe life of the vehicle.
If you if you buy it now with your in stock stuff.
And I'm like, I'm not interestedin buying a Tesla Model 3, but I
like the idea of never paying tofill up.

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And I started thinking, do I Do I want to buy a car I'm not
interested in just because I don't want to pay for gas
anymore? No, no.
And you know what you'll you'll end up needing a a home charger
as well. So you're going to have that
expense. I will say charging overnight at
home is very inexpensive. You know, I can, I can, I can
charge your typical EV charge from 20 to 100% or 20 to 80% for

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a couple of bucks. And that's probably what, Yeah.
And that what that represents inthe real world is 2 to 300
kilometers worth of driving. Insane.
I, I could deal with two to three bucks for that kind of
driving. I don't do as much driving as I
used to. I used to drive for hours and
hours a day. And, and actually that's
something that we're going to start talking about as of
tomorrow, because I, I'm, I'm working with the fine folks at

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SiriusXM radio. And we'll talk about that more
tomorrow because there's going to be a press conference.
But yeah, it's, it's very cool. While you're in the car, you got
to enjoy yourself. And yeah, I'm not going to talk
more about it until then. If you want to join the show, if
you want to be on screen, if youwant to chat with us live right
now, you can message, you can ask your questions.
You can see that we're a little behind.

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There's hundreds of comments that have yet to be answered,
but you can go to at you can e-mail me at
askatrafficcop@gmail.com and I will respond with an e-mail link
to join the show right here on Zoom.
You just use Zoom and you're you're good to go.
Stephen Chin says, sorry. Steve Chin says, hello, Brian
and Sean, looking forward to hearing some interesting
conversations tonight. Well, I hope we're already in

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that point where you're already hearing interesting stuff and it
is just beginning. You got Brandon who says
question for Brian. What did you think of this?
The C7ZR1ZR1? I don't recall it.
Well, the episode is on my YouTube channel.
I spent a lot of time shooting that episode and it's one of

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those cars that I will never forget.
Well, that's something that thatis and I will tell you that my
head hitting the the front and the back of the target top
opening makes me never forget myexperience in that vehicle.
It is just not made for me. I absolutely love it though.
I I would like to buy a classic vet, something that I fit into
because it used to be like a a big man's sports car and now it

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is it is no longer. I don't.
I don't. I don't know if there's any that
you'll fit into to be honest, except the convertibles.
Well, there there is that I did drive some of the 80s nineties
style and they were they were I fit in the I'm 6 foot 5.
I'm getting the the alert that we have 10 more minutes on this
zoom call. We're using different technology
and I'm experimenting with zoom.So I have not subscribed, which

(27:32):
means I need to reset that in 10minutes, which is a good
reminder. I'll play a few minutes of of me
speaking in front of von City Council on the topic of the most
magical of magicals. The their decision to dump the
speed program or the automated speed program, which I think is
I think is wrong. I think it's disgusting that
they invested all sorts of moneyinto this.

(27:54):
And then because some people said, I don't like getting
caught or being held accountable.
And the mayor went on and said, well, you know, these little old
ladies driving to bingo, they'regetting tickets.
If you're breaking the law. I mean, I, I, I don't understand
how you, you, you scrap millionsof dollars of, of, of taxpayer
money invested because granny said, I don't like getting

(28:15):
tickets And maybe it's his grandma.
I don't know. Then, then there was a guy who
said he got like a whole bunch of tickets.
And he says, I don't know how I'm going to pay for the tickets
and, and for the food because we'll just start freaking
driving properly. And it's less of an I just don't
understand where where where youreward the the the bullies with
vindicated like like anyway, I'mfrustrated by this.

(28:36):
Well, that's a, that's a whole societal thing.
And you know, I, I appreciate that, but it's really not
difficult to avoid these tickets.
No kidding. I mean it's.
It's yeah, it's not difficult. Now I will say that the four
cameras nearest to me in the city of Toronto are all cut
down. Really.
So can we figure out that those are all people that that that

(28:59):
are walking their dogs near yours, people responsible?
Well, it well, it could be my neighborhood Karen who believes
my Labrador retriever is a trained attack dog.
But that's. Another thing, Oh yes, yes, I've
I'm well aware of this particular individual and.
Because she, yeah, this particular individual has a a
different view of reality. So yes, anything's possible.

(29:19):
I got a whole bunch of stuff. We got the JJLII don't know your
username. Can I go 120 in BC?
I couldn't tell you whether you can go 120.
I would suggest looking at the signs.
They're a pretty good indicator as to whether or not you can go
120 legally. Automotive addiction went on the
same. My mom got caught, her ticket
was $275. My guess is school zone.
Well here's the deal. Any fine on camera is a school

(29:43):
is a community safety zone whichmeans fines are doubled what
they would normally be which is significant.
Janaki wants to know What Car you would recommend for a 19
year old today? It's really, really easy and
I've just done that for a friend, as a matter of fact.
So you have 3 choices as far as I'm concerned without

(30:03):
understanding anything else. But you want something that's
safe, reliable, and you know, does all the right all the right
things. And there are three cars that
that do that and by safe, that'sboth active and passive safety.
So they got to handle well, theygot to break well, all that
stuff. So to fit all that criteria #1

(30:24):
Mazda 3, probably the best driving of the bunch, Honda
Civic, which is a little bit bigger.
And then you have the, the Toyota Corolla and in, in that
order of driving satisfaction aswell.
So the, the Mazda is, you know, probably the most fun to drive.
The Civic is a close second. And the, the Corolla is, you
know, maybe a little more distant third.

(30:46):
But those all, all three of those fit the criteria.
And if we're talking used cars, I can't help but I don't look in
the used car market. But if we're talking new cars, I
can talk about that all day. Nice.
I, I would not fit in any of those comfortably.
So I will choose to. I, I mean, listen, I say
F-150F-150F-150. That's what I think everyone

(31:06):
should drive. A lot of pedestrian safety
groups don't agree with me. They think big vehicles are
dangerous and they they do. They do go over bumpy fleshy
stuff a lot different than smallvehicles, but I don't have the
choice to fit in small vehicles.Well, this is the thing and, and
you know, part of this automatedspeed camera debate and there's

(31:27):
one whole faction out there thatthinks that human beings should
not own private vehicles and they should be taking public
transit and your choices should be restricted.
And of course, the first things they're, they want to come for.
And I've already addressed this in the previous column when I
was writing for Haggerty, the collector car insurance company.
I addressed that because here inCanada there's a there, there's

(31:48):
a bunch of people who believe that no Canadian should drive a
a pickup truck as a passenger vehicle.
Which is insane because I will tell you that I have helped so
many people move as a result of having a truck that will
accommodate stuff and things that you know, you everyone
needs a friend like me. It's with a truck.
And so you had a truck. I, I, I, here's the deal.

(32:09):
The people eating granola have no idea what they're missing.
They are totally missing out on the best vehicle I've ever had
because you know, you, you are above everything.
If you've got room, you're not attached to the person that's
beside. There's a lot of benefits.
And it's not just that using workouts.
There there is and and arguably you have better visibility to

(32:31):
ensure that you're going to stopsooner and safely.
And when I hit the guy that caused the collision in two end
of 2018, who drove out of a packof vehicles 'cause he had to go
visit his dad for, for ChristmasEve.
Yeah, he caused a collision. And when I hit him, he spun all
over the place. His car looked like a a little
pinata that had, you know, broken open.

(32:53):
And mine had a crunched hood andneeded like repair, but that was
it. So I there's a lot to be said by
by driving something that's bulletish, proofish or bigger.
Bigger. I like bigger.
Let's see here. Davina Duckworth says save the
manuals. You're getting plugs for your
clothing brand. So where can they get you?

(33:14):
Should you should have samples here, but I, I, I.
Want to remind you they're they're behind me.
I can bring those up a little later.
Sounds good. Yeah.
A. Reminder to everyone watching,
you can be on the show. You can talk to us real live,
absolutely on screen if you wantto, or just voice in the
background, your choice. But you can't join the show
unless you e-mail me to get a link to join the Zoom.

(33:34):
But this is this is the the first time I hope we do this a
lot. I I'd like to be able to have
guests all the time and having you, the audience, be part of
the show in a real interactive way, no different than calling
into the radio station that I was on this morning.
It's awesome and I want to make it happen for everybody.
So anyone who wants to. So we're going to do that in a
few minutes because I have to reset the the zoom.

(33:56):
We will pause for a little videoand I'll I'll do that and we'll
come back. It's almost like it's a
commercial, but it's not a commercial.
OK, Yeah. Oh, I'm getting somebody sent.
Gifts an energy. Drink.
Thank you for the gifts, Elam. I see you nice.
A question of what do you do if you see somebody on their phone
while driving? I tell you what I, what I did in

(34:17):
the past before I, I, I pulled them over.
Did you take it to them? If I was a cop, I pulled them
over even whether I was on duty or off duty, depending on how
egregious it was. If, if you think that that
person is a risk to everybody around them that they're
actually swerving all over the road, I, I'd call 911 if it's,
if it's more than just they're glancing at the phone.
If they're all over the road, a hazard to everyone, it's an

(34:39):
emergency in my opinion. If they're if they're just
managing to be on their, it might be a non-emergency line if
they're not a priority, But the reality is no one's going to get
there in time to catch them. If the cops there, they're
there. If they're not, they're not.
You can make a report though, online Toronto police tps.ca.
You can make online reports because even if they don't catch
them, you can make the report saying I saw them at this date

(34:59):
and time, they were doing stuff on their phone.
And then a letter goes to the registered owner saying, hey,
whoever the fool was behind the wheel of your car, tell them to
stop playing with the phone. Like that's essentially what we
do, but at nice speak Toronto noTodoro charut says if a cop sees
me riding an electric scooter, can he give me a ticket?
We're really on topic tonight. I but we're talking about

(35:21):
electric. We're talking about we're
talking about electronic speed enforcement or a photo speed
enforcement. And this is actually a very good
question. Yes, because you're on a you're
on a vehicle, at very least a vehicle.
If you're in a compliant area, you're on a motor vehicle.
If you're in a non compliant area like you're not allowed to
ride E kick scooters in Toronto,they could charge you for all
sorts of stuff. You recently did some testing on

(35:43):
AE kick scooter, what'd you think?
So there's a, there's a, an episode on my channel for the
high boy Max Pro, which is one of those stand up things that
you see Uber eats ride in my neighborhood.
And I thought it was great because I, I took it out to the
country to a dead end road wherethe, the road surface is

(36:04):
perfect, smooth and there's smooth, you know, there's no
seams and it's lovely. And I'm like, OK, this isn't so
bad. And then a couple weeks later, I
had to run an errand. So I decided to take the
scooter. And what a disaster that was.
The road surface is so bad that I, I and, and let let's put,

(36:25):
let's add some context for this.I've been racing BMX bikes since
I was a kid. I won a national championship on
a BMX bicycle, downhill mountainbike.
And I'm, I slightly know what I'm doing on two wheels, a
little bit less, you know, a little bit less so than on four
wheels. So it took about two minutes for

(36:45):
me to determine this was a disaster and I was going to hurt
myself. And that was the last time I
rode it. That was it.
I'm yeah, done, Sold. It's gone.
I, I have one in the garage witha busted rear tire because I was
too heavy for the, for the tire and I, and I popped it, I bought
a solid rear tire and I, I just never got around to changing it.
I got to say that in some situations I really enjoyed it.

(37:08):
Mine didn't have any legal bone in its body.
You know, you describe it as that it was a compliant one that
didn't do over 24 kilometers an hour, but it was really easy to
ride in in as long as the roads were good, as you said, because
when they're not, it's bad. But with the roads were good.
It was it was a pleasure and I really like it for for trade
shows and stuff. I used to ride around the Honda
Indy. Oh, oh, oh, oh, here we go.

(37:28):
We lost Brian. Let's bring Brian back here.
I'll put the video on for a second.
You can catch a a moment of me. My name is Sean Shapiro.
I am with the Canadian Organization for Better Traffic
Safety and. Education.
I'm a former. Police officer I was the face of
traffic services for Toronto police for the last number of
years, and I've developed quite a following online, most of
which is engaging the public anddiscussing topics like this,

(37:49):
answering questions to help educate and make roads safer.
And what I tend to hear is that people don't like ASE.
OK, I get it, they don't want a ticket.
But why? It's because they're getting
tickets because they're breakingthe law, and the loud voices in
opposition of these systems are the violators themselves.
Obviously people not getting ticketed have very little to say

(38:10):
on the matter and those unfortunately are our bullies on
the road, making roads less safe.
Many people don't believe that the speed limits are effective
or appropriate. That 3040 and 50 kilometer an
hour speed limits are unreasonable.
Well, the reasons behind it are safety.
The slower the speed, the more chance that someone struck will
survive that collision. A child or elderly person at 30

(38:32):
kilometers has much better chances of surviving than they
would at 50 or 60 kilometers an hour.
And that seems to fall under fears because the people who are
again going through these neighborhoods at speed have
somewhere to go, something more important to do.
And unfortunately, I don't really care what they do.
I care about the safety of the people of Vaughn and then the
rest of Canada and the world forthat matter.

(38:53):
I want roads to be safe. I have a whole.
Presentation. But I really want to focus on
other things that have come up that is speed bumps.
It's great, but it punishes everybody.
It also impacts emergency services.
Police, fire and ambulance are slowed when they're arriving to
help people. Patients in the back of an
ambulance leaving the scene to go to the hospital are then
slowed and were bumped around the back of an ambulance.

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It does impact other people other than those who are
specifically violating. Really, the ASC is great because
it targets only the people who break the law and you can avoid
ever getting a ticket by simply not speeding.
Many people say, well, it's it'snot fair to have, you know, only
a 10 kilometer gap because a police officer would give me
that grace. Well, I can tell you that I

(39:36):
wouldn't as a police officer in an area around a school, give
you any grace if you're in a 30 or 40 kilometer in Arizona.
I would stop someone for doing anything above because it it's
to change behavior. It's not about making money.
Even if it's a minor ticket, it changes their behavior next
time, or at least we hope it does.
When it comes to the grace of a machine, they're already getting

(39:59):
a percentage over that they're going to be able to get away
with. And thankfully we don't publish
those numbers accurately becausethat becomes the new unofficial
speed limit. If we tell people they can go 10
kilometers over, they simply go 10 kilometers over.
Studies have actually shown, or surveys that should say from CAA
have actually said that 46% of people will avoid a route that

(40:19):
includes an ASC. Not because they're, you know,
concerned for the safety of the children in there, although that
would be a great option. It's because they know they're
going to speed and they don't want to get caught.
Yeah, I I had a lot of things tosay and I don't think the mayor
was very impressed while I said them.
Needless to say, after my, my 5 minutes of fame, I, I, I, they,

(40:42):
they, a few other people spoke, they broke and they came back
and said, yeah, we heard from all those people with all those
great statistics, all those numbers where it said that
automatic speed enforcement works and is effective and makes
roads safer. We're going to scrap it because
some people got caught and they don't like it and they vote for
us. I mean, that's really what I
heard. In fact, I have the entire video
and I want to take some, some, some bits and pieces out and

(41:04):
share it with everybody because it's, it's gross.
It's really gross to hear peoplesay it, it works, but we're
going to stop it because we wantto have your back.
When you break the law, the government wants to have your
back because I guess we don't agree with that law either.
What, what, what else are they saying?
We we've got lots to talk about about specifically on the topic

(41:25):
of automated enforcement. Yes, well, I, I think, I'm
sorry, I do think that this is very much a poll polling related
issue, especially at the provincial level, which is why
the, the, the premier is, is suggesting that the, these
cameras need to end. But you know, we'll, we'll see

(41:48):
on, you know, on the other hand,I mean it, it's so easy to pick
up that, you know, pick at individual issues and the city
is, you know, double down or quadrupled down.
The city of Toronto, that is, has doubled down or quadrupled
down on on the numbers of these cameras because they generate a
lot of revenue. They're only taking money from
people who break the law. So I don't I don't sympathize.

(42:10):
I think we should take that money and build something pretty
with it. I have, I have like, you know, I
have lots of ideas. You know, we could, we could,
you know, build a, a, a permanent, a race track on the,
you know, the Portlands or something like that.
That would be fun. There's a nice track just north
of the city being built. Yeah, we should be fucking it

(42:30):
with those feeders. Why not?
I'm I'm all in. I'm all in, Yeah, the, the, it,
it's, yeah, 'cause I've been spending a little bit more time
on track lately. It's, it's, it, it, it's, it's
just disappointing when I get back on, you know, the four O

(42:51):
one or four O 7. And it, it, I just cannot
believe how people are driving and, and, and I'm sure some of
these people are the same peopleare, you know, advocating for
higher speed limits and, and, and against speed enforcement
cameras. It's funny when you they said
75% of people were against cameras.

(43:13):
They olled a very interesting group.
Probably 75 to 100 of their friends were in that group
because the CAA did a poll and 75% of their respondents said
that they were in favor of the cameras as opposed to scrapping
them. So I don't understand where,
where, where Vaughn residents, you know, actually Anyway,

(43:34):
interesting things you can do with statistics like get them.
Wrong. I was just about to say that.
For anyone who wants to join theshow on camera in person and
actually talk to us, I'm monitoring.
I've not seen an e-mail. So be a brave soul.
Come join us. Share your thoughts on the air
with the world. My buddy widow engineering who
is a drone guy engineering guy and and he he likes stuff and

(43:58):
things but he says that he uses adaptive cruise control and Waze
for speed camera reminders and he doesn't speed is what I'm
getting out of what he says. But the what is we got someone
who asked about do cops give cops tickets in Ontario?
Cops give I know of a of a police car that was impounded
for stunt driving a police car, an actual police car that was

(44:21):
impounded that was a mess. It was it may be in a ranking
officer who was driving maybe. It's again on, on that subject.
On that subject, I, I happen to see three police cars full
throttle with lights and sirens and the whole bit.
But the full throttle part was, was scary given the, the, the

(44:43):
context of the location and the,and the visibility and the
amount of traffic around. And it's disturbing because I
know they don't have the same level of training that that I
do, and they and they deserve more.
With all the training they have,whatever training they have, you
cannot account for everything. And that's why we focus on
guaranteed arrival no matter what's going on.
I, I, I know when I, when, when I used to really go fast, it was

(45:05):
because it was a kid involved ora cop involved.
And it's life and death. And sometimes the, the, the
logic that controls our speedometer doesn't work because
we're, we're in that same mode. The truth is when you're doing
things out of an emergency, you're, you're not using the
whole brain. You're, you're in a, in a, in a
level of no matter who you are, cop or not, you're using less

(45:28):
judgement. And that's not a good place for
me in a panic. Well, I, yeah, yeah.
Well, in a, in, in a panic. And, you know, that's, that's
the thing. I mean, I, there's probably
nothing more panicky than being in a race car.
And, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm, you know, I'm fortunate enough
to have lots of experience behind the wheel of a, of a race
car. And I really kind of don't get

(45:50):
flustered. But that's, you know, I'm at
the, the extreme end of things. But I'm also an advocate of, of
more driver training because I understand it what it's like to
be at that end of the of the thespectrum of proficiency, because
I don't get bothered by by things.
It's not an emotional thing to to to drive quickly.

(46:10):
I, I'm going with, you know, thelate, the people who go quickly
and have no good reason or the people who are late for work and
don't look, don't want to look bad to their boss, but at the
same time should have left 1/2 an hour early.
So they're not people I care about.
But then there's the people who are, you know, their kids sick
and they think they're going to,you know, God forbid something
terrible is going to be the outcome or in a police
situation, a kid is dying, you know, you know, those are the

(46:32):
kind of those are the things like if I don't get there,
something bad's going to happen.It's more than it's, it's a
different, I think it's a different kind of panic than
winning the race. But I appreciate that you do
things that other people and police officers are not trained
to do, which is go really, really fast in a controlled
environment. Well, and, and, and I think that
the, the, the, my perspective is, is that the the more time
you spend in those in those situations, the less that you

(46:56):
know, the, the less affected youare by emotion.
I don't disagree. I I just remember when I, I
think about this, I, I remember a call where I, where I was, I
the call said a kid was hit and it was bad.
I got there and the kid was a passenger in a car that got hit
and it was not bad. And I risked everything to get
there and it was, it was, it wasnot wise.

(47:18):
So I slowed. I slowed down a lot after that
and made sure I made much betterdecisions.
But yeah, every situation is different.
But that's when I, when I think about those things, I, I think
about my own personal experiences.
I'm like, I didn't hurt anybody.I didn't.
But I, I could have gone slower and still got there and nothing
was going to change when I got there.
I just reminded anybody watching, we can have you join
the show. There's a space in between us
where we can put your picture and you can ask questions to be

(47:39):
part of the conversation. You e-mail
askatrafficcop@gmail.com for an invite to join the screen.
I will send you a link for Zoom.Now we got a question of why are
there? Why are why is there no police
presence on the 400 series highways between 5:00 and 6:00
AM and also 5:00 and 6:00 PM? That's an interesting.
Question I well, I, I, I don't drive that early in the morning

(48:00):
usually unless I'm going to the right track, but certainly in
the afternoons and, and evenings.
I have to say I haven't seen thethe I've seen more City of
Toronto police in the City of Toronto Highway highways, but I
haven't seen an OPP vehicle in along time.

(48:22):
I have recently in my, my regular trips to, to Berry have
been seeing a tremendous number,a tremendous number.
And I say tremendous 3, 3-4, like set up a boom, boom, boom.
You pass the first one, you think, oh, you're good and the
next person is speeding by and they get nailed.
I love it because for a long time I was chastising the OBP

(48:44):
for not putting enough coppers on the road.
Now it might happen to be that we recently had a bunch of
people graduate from the OntarioPolice College and they might be
getting their, their training and being, you know, putting,
being put in situations where they can get some experience and
that might stop again, I don't know.
But I'm, I'm very happy to see an enhanced presence.
Now I can't speak to 5:00 and 6:00 in the morning because

(49:05):
since I left the police, I don'tget up that early anymore.
I used to be on my way to work at 5:00 in the morning every
day. And I'm happy to say I sleep in
till 6:30, which is a heck of a sleep in compared to the 4:00 I,
I was used to. Just saying, let's see here.
Kyle wants us to leave the PAL owners alone.
I just happened to find the the questions on YouTube.

(49:29):
OK. Oh, oh, I've got something there
for a second. You lost me.
I'm still here. Oh, you've slowed down.
Yes, there is some lag, but I can.
Certainly. Yeah, that's that's pretty, you
know. We are at the at the hands of I
should be back. Thank God you are back.
You are back in at speed. OK, yes, excellent.

(49:54):
I was. I just happened to find the the
the questions and comments on YouTube which we can we can
certainly address. Well you can also see them on I
should I don't know if I if I ifI can give you access to put it
on screen, but if when we Co host properly I should give you
the appropriate login. Are we talking about Steve's
questions? And and Divina's as well, so

(50:17):
there's a lot of them there. OK, we can put just that order
of operation. You can put Steve's in first.
Interesting about cameras here in the five boroughs of New York
City, we just pay them out. In the suburbs of Long Island,
there are very few. The reason being the voters
threaten the local politicians. Is that the one you were looking
at that? Was one of them, yes, I like

(50:38):
that. I like that.
And you know, that's one of the things you don't understand
about driving culture in in in New York City.
I don't know if I've ever drivenin New York City at all.
I I've I've done a. Lot of work.
Driving there a little bit, I I have actually had the unique
pleasure of being aboard an NYPDschool bus.
That was because of the September 11th memorial for

(51:00):
which I, I frequented as part ofthe Canadian contingent to, to
represent the Toronto police forthat event.
My, my, my, I have my heart is always going to be in New York,
my, my home away from home. Love the people.
Shout out to the NYPD and to the, to the guy riding shotgun,
standing shotgun in the, the, the, the, the, the foot well or

(51:21):
the door well of the, the bus yelling get out the way, get out
the way. Police coming through like
screaming on the, on the PA system, 'cause you can't sirens
are not, you don't go anywhere in New York 'cause they could
care less. So it was quite an experience to
go lights and sirens through thecity for a, for a, you know, a
really good reason because we had to get to the hotel, Davina

(51:44):
says. I suspect powerful, wealthy and
influential people have their have that power to affect the
implementation of traffic cameras.
It's a pay to play. If you're really that wealthy,
just pay the ticket and move on.Yeah, I, I, I don't, I don't, I
don't think people really care. Well, it's funny, I, I, I had a

(52:06):
moment of insanity. And that was after seeing how or
being so incredibly unimpressed by the politicians, I said to
someone, maybe I should run because I would guarantee more
cameras, not less. And they said, unless you're
willing to be on the take, you don't want to get into politics.
And I'm like, that's quite a bold statement that I would
never have thought would be the case.

(52:28):
But this is what that person who's close to politics said.
And I'm like, I guess I'm not running for politics 'cause I'm
way too straight and narrow. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm not
interested either, but yeah. I mean, you know, like, like
like a lot of traffic laws. The, the, the, the, the speed

(52:49):
camera thing is, in all the research I was doing leading up
to this conversation, there's people coming at it from so many
different vectors. It is wild.
And it's, and you know, the, if it, you know, if you stay, you
know what, what's, what's the, what did Mark Mark Twain say?
If you, you know, if you, if youknow, if you, if you follow the

(53:10):
news, you're, or if you, if you don't follow the news, you're
uninformed. And if you follow the news,
you're misinformed. Oh, I like that it's and it's so
drunk. Yeah.
So, you know, if if if you read the headlines of our major
publications, it's the surface level conversation about the the

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the cameras themselves. But you know, then then you
know, when I look at it from my perspective and having to, you
know, try to defend a ticket andnot having the opportunity to do
so through the process that the city of Toronto created, that's
a little fishy to me. But then there there are we're.

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Losing. We're losing you.
You're getting a little choppy. I don't know why.
But in the meantime, while whilewe sort that out, I just want to
say that Louis or Louis says it wants to know if speed cameras
can give you tickets for one kilometer over.
They could, he could, but I've never heard of a speed camera
giving A1 kilometer an over, A1Kover ticket.

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Someone called in today said hisdaughter got a ticket for one
over and said it was $75.00, which also doesn't drive because
it's $5 per kilometer over the limit, so that it doesn't make
any sense. I've not heard of it.
Brian, have you heard of anyone getting a ticket for one
kilometer over? No, I think my my 7 or 8

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kilometer an hour over the speedlimit ticket was kind of the
lowest. I've seen or heard of yeah, I, I
and I think it's a percentage over the posted limit.
So if it's a 30, maybe 7 or 8. If it's a 40, maybe 10 or 12.
It depends on where you are. A lot of people think that there
should be a buffer. And I, I agree for a couple
kilometers over, I wouldn't Dingyou as a cop.
And I don't think you should getdung dung by a camera.

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But you know what? More than that, and I, I have to
sympathy. Let's see here X wants to know
what the law is on giving the finger to a cop when he profiles
a person. That's that's, that's kind of a
loaded question. It's a it's a, it's a finger
load. There's no law about giving
someone the finger. You can do what you want.

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I mean, you might find yourself being investigated because they
can do what they want to, but the it's not against the law.
It's just, you know, you're a little suspicious when you're
telling a copper to, to, to bugger off, but you're also
assuming he profiled someone foran inappropriate reason.
Maybe that person was doing something illegal.
Just saying. I I don't have the ability to,

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you know, pull over any vehicle,but I profile anyone driving a
vehicle with darkly tinted windows.
You are up to no good if you do not want to be recognized by.
Anyone you're up to no good. I was just assuming they they
they're they're they're knuckle deep in their nose digging for
gold it. Could be.

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Let's see here, we talked about that my phone was dying and I
was at a stop sign. I plugged it in.
The cop pulled me over in tickettime.
You're not allowed to touch yourphone.
The law has said even if your phone is dead, if you are
holding your dead phone because it's your security phone, it
makes your soul feel happy. That's against the law and you
can be ticketed. It it, it's relevant whether it
had power, why you were pluggingit in.
These are things you do when you're legally parked and not

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whilst driving or even at a red light.
There's got to be some case law about an emotional support
phone. You could've make some now, but
but you know, even if you have it on your lap because it
because it's it's overheating because it's an older apple and
it warms your lap and you you find difficult time staying warm
in your car that has heating issues.
I mean, like no good luck. Good luck to you.

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That's what I got to say what wegot here.
Elam who sent a whole bunch of gifts.
Thank you very much. He says here This is why you
should get your windows tinted. He says plus windshields cops
what is this windshield cops can't give you ticket for phone
only 100 and what This is why you should be plus windshield
cops can't give you a ticket forphone only 110.

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I don't understand that statement.
Well, I, I think, I think one ofthe, well, if we want to unpack
all of that, I think there's a bunch of things going on.
One of the things he is saying is with darkly tinted windows,
police can't see whether you're holding your phone or not, which
is absolutely. Tricky the $110 ticket instead
of the $615 ticket and he says there's no points for the ticket
for tint except if you have tinted windshield.

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And if your tint is so dark thatI can't see inside it, that's
not actually not just $110 ticket.
That is a lose your plates, get it towed because your vehicle's
unsafe ticket. Yep.
Just saying, but he sent a wholebunch of gifts, so I should tell
him that He's wonderful and thank you and I appreciate that
the money goes to better TrafficSafety and education and
not-for-profit. I started when I left the
Toronto Police Service and I do get help from Diamond and

(57:49):
Diamond lawyers. They're a magical group of
people who happen to help fund the show and the the
organization because we want to make roads safer for everybody.
It's not just about chatting online, it's about actually
making a difference. And they help me do that.
So I appreciate them. If you want to support, you can
go to ask a traffic up.ca. You can support us by PayPal
directly. You can go and buy us a coffee
through buy us a coffee at Voiceof Work Up.
It doesn't go to me officially registered Canadian

(58:10):
not-for-profit organization. Let's see here we've got if a
new driver immigrant with AG1 iscutting driving what is cut what
is cut driving is cut driving with no insurance.
What can you do? I don't, this is user 1,000,000.
If you're, if you're driving with AG1, caught driving with no
Oh my God. So you're, we got a, we got a

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language barrier. If you're caught driving with no
insurance, you're screwed dude, because that's a 5 to $25,000
fine if you're convicted and up to six months in jail if they so
choose to, to go that way for sentencing.
And I got to tell you, things are changing in the courts and I
think it's actually good. I was a little pissed about it
originally because a friend of mine got a ticket careless

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driving caused bodily harm. So there's new charges
available. They got a ticket that would
normally have been a just a ticket, 400 bucks. 500 bucks,
see you later. Have a good day.
They wanted $3000 and a 15 monthdriving prohibition for making a
left turn and hitting a pedestrian.
Now, I am not saying it's OK to do that, but historically that

(59:18):
was a $500 ticket. Yeah, your insurance goes up.
But now they are coming hard forpeople who are breaking the law.
And it's not like he went out tohurt somebody.
The sun was in his eyes. He made a turn.
It wasn't careless driving, in my opinion, I would not have
laid that charge because I don'tthink it was careless.
But this copper laid the charge and they got a conviction.

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They, they, they, they did negotiate down a bit, but they
were, they were serious man. And, and the person who appeared
in court right after them, same thing.
They're coming hard for drivers who are making roads dangerous.
Interesting. Well, I hope to hope to see more
of that because I mean, I've so much bad driving shots so.

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Much. It's so, and you know, I, I, I
try to, I try to remember to putmy dash Cam in the car and then,
you know, like this week, you know, tomorrow's Wednesday and I
still haven't put it in the car that I'm driving.
So here we are. Star Lord says Who is Brian?
I'm just giving him a voice. But he also wants to boycott

(01:00:22):
EVs. But I I think he thinks we're
chill guys. But I appreciate that.
I just thought it was funny. So.
So Brian, who are you? Reintroduce yourself to the
room. I have AI, have a YouTube
channel about new cars. I've got the big check mark on
my racing career and a lot of mytrophies are in the background.

(01:00:43):
And I've forgotten how many races that I've won in my racing
career, taught performance driving and race driving for a
really, really long time. And I've written for most of the
big car magazines around the world as well.
So I kind of know cars and racing.
You know some stuff and. Things, stuff and things about
cars and make them go fast. I don't like it Nish, sorry we

(01:01:05):
got will from Nish security wrote in and says I'm watching
and he had some comments but I don't know if he wants to join
want to join. I'm responding I'm leaving a
link just in case he wants to join because he's the first and
only person who paste There we go.

(01:01:27):
We can talk about that, but he says I'm currently watching your
live on TikTok on the company account.
I want to mention the lack of OPP on the 115 from 4 O1 to
Peterborough. It is the boundary of three or
four detachments, but yet almostnever see a police officer on
the 1:15. I would I would reach out to
them and say I'm a concerned person working in this area and

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I never see anybody. What's going on?
It's, you know, there's things that are not doing the right
thing. JSB says.
It's quite annoying when I see apolice officer driving down the
highway with a cell phone in their hand.
I don't disagree with you. It would be annoying for someone
who may not realize that they are perfectly legal to do that.
Because police, fire, ambulance,people operating those vehicles

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are exempt from utilizing or being restricted from utilizing
their their handheld communication device, their
computer in the car, their two way radio, all those things.
So it looks terrible. However, it's legal and oddly
enough, police officers have access to additional tools and
some police issue phones. They they actually have access
to run license plates. I hope he isn't ordering pizza.

(01:02:34):
That would that would be gross. Not because the pizza would be
gross. It's gross because it's a it's a
a misuse of their permitted things.
And I don't know what I was going to say.
They're allowed to do it. But if you're doing it for the
wrong reasons, not for work, I wouldn't condone it.
That's what I'm saying. Safety first.
By the way, creator Steve, what's up?
He came in for it to to say hey MC pro Canadian something says

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how often are people are vehicles vehicles pulled over
for expired registrations. I know it was a lot easier with
the stickers. Oh God yeah, I miss stickers.
So what was so when coppers weredriving around the once the one
charge that was an easy grab wasthe expired license plate
sticker. Well, now we don't have new
stickers. So they actually we, that's one

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of the reasons they went to the automated license plate reader,
because the ALPR just picks it up.
They can pick up four lanes wideat 100 kilometers an hour type
thing, not just 100 kilometers, 100 kilometers speed
differential. So they're cutting 100
kilometers, you know, at the, it's amazing.
It's, it's truly amazing, but how many, how are they pulled

(01:03:41):
over? I don't know what the stats are
on that, but I would imagine it's happening a lot less than
it used to. And we, you know, I, I would
pull over cars all the time for expired.
People don't even realize they're expired.
Here's a hint or a tip. Go check to see if your license
is expired or not. They mail stuff, but not
everybody like looks at mail. So you never know.
That's right. I I'm still seeing some of that.

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You know that you remember thosecouple years with those plates
that would peel. Oh gosh, yeah, they're still
around. They're completely bare.
I. I've seen a couple in the last
week. Yeah, a lot of them are free to
replace still because the B series are are totally
acknowledged as being crap. But you know, it's it's
interesting if you got a peelingplate, you know, it's $110

(01:04:24):
ticket option for the officer tolay.
But there you go. Joe D says huge cash grab.
I can only imagine that Joe is referring to cameras, but maybe
they're talking about something else as I scroll through the
TikTok. Yeah, a lot of people don't like
getting tickets. Why is it a cash grab?
What makes punishing someone forbreaking the law a cash grab?
That's my question. If you're talking about Traffic

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Safety, you're supposed to follow the law.
If you break the law, aren't youkind of just asking for it?
And and Will says he's not coming to join the stream
because he's in his pajamas. Well, I am too.
No, just just kidding. Yeah.
Yeah. You're always in flattles.
You live in flattles. That's right, that's right.

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You know, the again, the, the, the, the issue of these speed
cameras, you know, it becomes a thing for some people when you,
when you look at the numbers andthe, and the, the numbers say
that the city of Toronto and youknow, this, which is where I
live, is generating A tremendousamount of revenue through these
things. So of course, when you know,

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some people look at it that way,it's like, OK, now, you know,
now I see what the the city's doing because, you know, they
can't balance a budget, so they've got to raise some
revenue somewhere. So why not take it on a
motorist? And as my wife will attest, I
have been saying for a really, really long time, Toronto hates
cars. So I I got to say that a lot of

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what's going on in Toronto, it is, it is.
I don't want to go to Toronto anymore.
And now that I retired from policing, I don't have to.
But it's infuriating to sit in traffic.
Mind you I drove to Hamilton last night and it took me over 2
hours to get there and I left at3:00 in the afternoon.
Driving anywhere is infuriating.I want a helicopter license so I

(01:06:07):
can fly places because this driving stuff is for the birds.
It's terrible. Why?
When are you going to leave at 5:00 in the morning so you can
go over to speak? Live it like there.
Was I, I, I try to pick and choose the, the, the times that
I have to drive and, and the city and, and none of it's good.
Now you know, now that the now that the East End of the four O
7 is free, there's traffic jams on that straight to the four O

(01:06:29):
7. There's nothing good happening
right now and I'm I don't know what the right answer is because
it's one I don't want to take a bus because between bed bugs and
people who want to hurt other people like it's smelly, I just
don't want to be on a bus. So I but I also appreciate that
it's probably the right way to get around nowadays, but not,

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but only if there's those express lanes that also screw at
traffic. Like there's just nothing good
going on on the roads right now.No.
And, and, you know, I've, I've had the, I've had the good
fortune of, you know, traveling a lot of cool places and, you
know, taken trains and taken subways in cities where it
actually works. Wow.
A huge difference. Yes.

(01:07:13):
And you know, like several places in Europe and in Asia,
they've got a train system that is brilliant and it works.
And it's not wondering why. No.
Yeah, exactly. And, and you know, why I had to
take an Uber to Scarborough thismorning when there's no good

(01:07:33):
reason for, for this, the city this big to have a, a, you know,
a, a, a, you know, a subway or train system where I could have,
you know, taken that that train with one stop and gotten
somewhere close to my destination.
There's there's no reason for that.
And I had really, if I wanted, if I wanted to take the the TTC,

(01:07:55):
it would have taken me 4 hours. It's unacceptable.
I, I'm, I'm finally in a position that I can totally
understand where working from home and being remote, I do
meetings, they look like this. It's fantastic.
And I, I, I actually want to support the folks who don't want
to leave their house anymore because I'm one of them.
We got, we got somebody who doesn't like cops, We won't

(01:08:16):
acknowledge them. Tameem says 40K is ridiculously
slow. 50K is decent. You know what, it's funny, I
thought 40s I, well, 30 Ki thought was slow until I started
driving in areas that were 30. I'm like, it's not that bad.
Is it as fast as 40? No, it's obviously a 10
kilometer difference. But I, I, I my neighborhood's 50
on the mains and 40s on the sides and I'm cool with it.

(01:08:36):
Doesn't bother me none. But I'm also not trying to like
I I'm never going that fast on a60s zone in traffic.
No, in the, in the city, it's kind of impossible that, that
you know it when where I grew up, the, the, the, the roads
were, were rated at 80 kilometers an hour.
Now they are somewhat less and significantly less, which

(01:08:58):
provides the foundation for my argument that we do have
juvenile speed limits. And I'm not suggesting that, you
know, the 30s and 40s in, in thecity are inappropriate because
for the most part they're not. And you can't go that fast
anyways. And, and, and if you wanted to
go faster, it's just the, it's the dumbest idea ever.
But on a country Rd. that is, that used to be 80 kilometers an

(01:09:20):
hour with great sight lines and,and, you know, lots of width and
shoulder and everything else, There's no reason for that to be
50. And yet they are.
I, I almost got into a shock situation when I was driving
yesterday in, in Hamilton and I'm in a rural area road and
it's 80 and it's one lane with aditch in each side.
I'm like, people must like, if this was Toronto drivers, they

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wouldn't get 10 feet before theywere in the ditch.
That's like, I, I was scared forpeople, but they were all people
who grew up there and were used to it.
But you know, you, you transplanted the driver into
that environment. I'd be scared.
Mr. Classic said he got pulled over by a cop and legitimately
could not understand a word he said.
Who are we hiring? Listen, I, there was a guy in my

(01:10:01):
class that I couldn't understandhim for the entire time that we
were in class together. And he ended up not continuing
as a police officer because he he was he was ESL, wonderful
guy, not easy to understand. So it is a thing we hire people
because they have skills and abilities and we hope that they
can get up to speed. But then we look at my buddy who
is from Brazil. Obviously he's a Portuguese

(01:10:22):
speaker. He is a guy who was skilled
laborer. He was a cabinet maker.
He wanted to become a cop. They wanted to hire him.
He became an auxiliary officer. He want he wanted to be APC.
Toronto said no, PO said yes, but you got to take courses to
improve your English. He did.
He's now a police officer. Some people can can pull their
weight and get up to it. Other people have difficulty.

(01:10:44):
But you know, it's, it is what it is.
I don't know any other way to say it.
Language shouldn't be the barrier because obviously in
their native language they mightbe phenomenal and it's just the
English they got a problem with.So it's it's.
That that's exactly it. But I mean, I think we're, we're
just a few months away from ubiquitous live translation from
one language to any other language.
Airpods 3. Yeah.

(01:11:05):
And and now the new Ray Ban glasses with the little
projector inside 800 bucks US that's a steal.
I want them. But I am, I am a, a Duolingo guy
now I'm working on my Spanish and my Russian and, and just
trying to learn, learn as much as I can in my downtime.
I'm, I'm flipping eggs at in my kitchen and I'm, I'm reciting
lessons and doing stuff with my kids.
I, I want to learn more languages.

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I want to be multilingual. William says he if I go through
Toronto, I leave at 2:00 AM justso I don't have to deal with
Toronto. I've always said that Toronto is
an hour away from Toronto. Eric wants to know why it's
what's the mentality about following the law?
So why is it so hard for people to understand?

(01:11:48):
That's a wonderful question. Yeah, it's, I don't know what
the what the knee jerk reaction is.
Listen, for a longest time impaired operation charges,
judges threw them out. They didn't convict people
because they were doing the samething.
They had a couple of pints and then drove home.
So it was very acceptable. What we've developed, especially
since COVID, a real soft spot for speeders.

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I don't get it. I don't understand it at all.
And of course, the people who are the loudest complainers
about the speeding are the people who speed, right?
Like, they, they, they're. And actually, I remember a story
where a woman, it was a big advocate for adding speed
cameras in her neighborhood because people were going too
fast. And she was one of the first
people to get a ticket. True story.
And. Of course.

(01:12:32):
Let's see here. Oh, Jordan.
Jordan I can't Jordan Ingman says make it 40K during school
but not all the time. So that and he said he wants the
QEW to be 130 and the 400 and the 400 and the four O 1.
He wants everything to be faster.
And so here we here we are back to my point about the road

(01:12:56):
surface, vehicle safety and driver skill and those three of
those things don't add up to higher speed limits,
unfortunately. Yeah, I, I don't.
The truth is, more often than not, we don't need to go faster
because even if you're great, because, you know, Brian, you're
great, you're a great driver, but everybody else sucks.

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But if everybody else, if you start putting faster people
amongst the people who can't drive, you're just making a
colossal Boo Boo. It, it is.
And there's such a disparity in skill sets and, and Even so,
even on the racetrack, you know,I'm out there on a, on a track

(01:13:42):
day with highly experienced drivers.
But because I'm at the, the complete other end of the
spectrum where I've gone wheel to wheel with cars and, and you
know, crash and all that stuff. But you know, I'm pretty
proficient at Wheeling a car. I have the, the, the, the
differential between me and a slow car.
And someone else in a fast car causes all kinds of confusion to

(01:14:03):
the driver and the fast car who's actually driving slower
around the racetrack. And it's and you know, it's and
it's worse on, on public roads when you've got a, you know, got
a thirty 4050 kilometer hour delta, none of that's good.
And and and for the most part, people are not expecting cars to
be passing them with that kind of speed differential.

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And speed differentials really where problems show up and, and,
and scream. Before we get into the next
thing I want, I want to just mention that if you wanted to
join the show, you could have today.
We actually had it set up. Zoom would allow you to be on
screen chatting with us just like we're chatting.
And we'd love to have you as part of it.
Although we are going to wrap upsoon.
So I think you've missed the boat if you want to do it next

(01:14:46):
time. But that cause 'cause there's no
doubt this is the way we're going to go forward.
It looks so much better and cleaner than the other way.
We have a question who what was the question?
Question is, oh, Anthony Souza says, can I ask a question?
That was a question you've used up your allotted available.
You could of course ask a question.

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Then we've got Erica responding to Jordan who says so people can
drive 150. This is a lot of listen fast,
you want to go to the Autobahn, they they allow fast, but they
also enforce all the other little rules.
So strictly they have such addition drivers.
This, this is the thing. When they have speed limits in

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Germany, they are the limit. There's no latitude there.
It's incredible. And and even pulling a lane.
What's the word I'm looking for lane etiquette.
You only get into the left lane to pass.
You go right back to the right lane.
It's none of this left lane camping, but you're also, you
know, environments where the speed limit is 80 to 130, it's

(01:15:51):
80 to 130. You don't go faster, you don't
speed. They are.
They're on you photo radar as well as police enforcement.
Charles wants to know how long after you you do your panel
interview do you usually find out you got the job.
No news is good news. They might be trying to fill
classes. If they haven't said no, they're
just waiting to say yes or or no.

(01:16:12):
You never know until you know. But no news is good news.
So just chill, don't call, don'tdon't bug your recruiter.
That's a bad go prob Guru wants to know how much do you make?
I I don't know what you're talking about.
Do you mean my salary right now?Do you mean when I was a police
officer? Do you mean like when and Stone

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ABBA says took 1 kilometer at 50kilometers and that what is this
to travel 1 kilometer at 50 kilometers an hour is only 11
seconds slower than at 60 kilometers an hour.
The whole concept saying that speeding doesn't get you there
any faster. And I will tell you that the
people in bozos, the people I want to talk about this morning
are bozos. I had a guy who who who speed
past me at lightspeed only to pass me turn into the store to

(01:16:57):
go buy bread at 6:30 in the morning, limping out of his car
because he has a bad back. We, I, I was right behind him.
I didn't break the law. He was driving like a Jackass.
And we got there the same place,same time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. Let's see here.
Oh, this is interesting conversation, Jordan, who wants

(01:17:19):
the speed limits to go to 1:20 or 1:30 because everyone's doing
1:20 to 1:30 anyway. And Ice Panda Cuddles says for
your username, people can't do 100.
Now let's start there first. That's great.
It's true. It's true.
I was on, I was on four O 1 earlier today and just, you

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know, having to be just, you know, doing my thing and not on
cruise control. And I passed a a Toronto police
vehicle going way under the speed limit because it was in,
in traffic in the far right lane.
I was in the in the passing laneand you know, might have been
doing 100 at best and you know, the the you just can't drive

(01:18:02):
fast on the on the four O 1. It's impossible.
It it is is no bueno in in one minute and 55 seconds.
It's going to reset. Let's take the opportunity to
reset it one last time and we'llstart wrapping things up.
I'm going to end that bring you off the screen and we'll send
you an invite and the meeting for all.
And then we're going to bring Brian back.
This is I'm going to buy the thefreaking subscription, but I

(01:18:25):
this is our first time testing it.
I needed to test it. I needed to know this worked and
it works beautifully. It's a different way of
connecting. Usually I bring him in through
the the magic of another app, but I didn't like the way it
looks. This looks so much better.
So as soon as he's back in the know in the go, we'll we'll
bring him back on screen and let's see here how let's see

(01:18:45):
here Charles says thanks. You're welcome.
We'll talk about this. We'll talk about Brian's
question to Brian. Oh, he's asking.
Maybe he's asking me, but his name is Brian.
You guys assume that it's it's Brian asking Brian.
What are your thoughts on peoplethat hit the brake randomly on
the highway? I think they're not very good
drivers. Why are they hitting the brakes?
This sounds odd. Yeah.

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I don't know if it's doing it intentionally.
That's that's a whole different situation.
There we go. You're back.
I'm back. It's good to have you.
This is it's always fun when youjoin the show.
It's, it's, it's not like we don't talk enough, but it's,
it's always good to do it like this, this.
Is true, I had to get some water.

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This is I have I have a case of water next to the table.
I should just, you know, just bring a straw and giant one of
those giant buckets because whenI met down in the basement, I I
drink a lot of water. Yeah, that's the thing.
I had AI had a 5 gallon jug leftover from a cottage
adventure that I just kept in the office for a little while
and now it's empty. I I if you go to my Instagram at

(01:19:49):
voice over cop, you will see my manly, which sounds wrong, but
but I bought a Stanley 64 oz Stanley.
It's almost 2 liters. My kids have the Stanleys and
they're into the Stanleys and I I don't like the Stanley that
looks like a, a weird, you know,mug, but but this thing. 64 or

(01:20:09):
63, whatever it is. Oz.
That's a legit drinking utensil.What do you do with that?
I, I. I.
Empty it by way of drinking it so so I I post it on my my
Facebook. I said I bought 2 liters.
It's awesome. It's truly is awesome.
And you work out with it until it's doing reps.
It was. So I, I posted a picture of it

(01:20:30):
and one of my friends said that's a lot of pee.
And I said I, I put water in it.I don't put pee in it.
That's gross. You know, it's a dad joke and
only the dad's got it. Yeah.
So Erica says that. OK, So what does Brian say?
Brian says so first of all, Jordan says he's never been

(01:20:52):
pulled over at 120. I can tell you that people get
pulled over for 120 now and again.
And I actually encourage cops to, to pull people over for 120
and charge them because that's how you get people to do 100.
If you only wait until someone does 130 or 140 or 150 to stop
them, you're telling everybody else that it's OK to speed up
until that threshold. That's the whole reason we don't
publish what the, the, the cameras are set to.

(01:21:14):
Because if you know, then that'swhat you'll go.
Funny how that works. Brian wanted to know.
This is not Brian but Max, but Brian somebody else.
What are your thoughts on peoplewho tap the brakes all the time
while they're driving? Sorry, brake randomly on the
highway. They need help.

(01:21:36):
What is it? Is it?
Is it? Is it a brake check?
Which is stunt Dr. Well. I or is it just.
I don't, I don't, Yeah. I don't think that's what he's
talking about. I mean, I, I, I drive so much,
I, I see kind of everything. And I think what what he's
referring to is, is when, you know, people are driving alone,
not in traffic and they actuallybrake and there's no noticeable

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difference in, in speed from no brake to brake.
And as a professional, to say some people have developed bad
habits by simply the absence of never establishing good habits.

(01:22:21):
Good habits What? What's that?
You see a lot of bad habits. Yeah.
You mean you like, think things like looking as far down the
road as possible training. Right.
Yeah, people don't know about that.
That's new driver training. A lot of comments talked about
driver training. It wasn't really questioned so I
didn't jump into them, but driver training should be
mandatory, not optional. Yeah.

(01:22:42):
Mandatory. Mandatory in Germany.
As it should be for everyone everywhere.
Why are you allowed to get behind a vehicle just because
you you guessed 20 questions andhad someone show you their bad
habits? That is not acceptable for
driving. That is not the test and people
learn just enough to get past. They don't learn like it's a
profession. If if you could, you imagine if

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doctors just learned enough to get through the test.
So argue that that's what we got.
But. I don't know.
I I I like my doctor. He's great.
You know, if you're lucky enoughto have a doctor in Canada, I
like my doctor, too, Juan says, or asks, Are we allowed to carry
a secured mattress on top of thecar in Toronto?

(01:23:26):
Secured is the keyword there. Yeah, what's the What does the
law say? Well, it has to be secured,
truly secured, But how does one secure something?
People use twine. Is that secured?
Not a rated strap. So it's not secured if that.
You know, if I've seen I've seenlevitation, it looks like a sail
where the where the the strings are loose and the the But I've

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also seen people holding the mattress with their their hands
out the window. The green screen.
I'm disappearing. Can I tell you?
Can I tell you, I, I, I have to interrupt, Can I tell you how I
transported a mattress in the last week?
Please do I put it inside? Yes, put it inside the vehicle.
Say you think so. I it's true it's possible.

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You know, using the right tool, like I'm sure the person who
holds the mattress with their hands and the of the themselves
and their three friends also uses a butter knife to turn
screws. Like use the proper.
Yes. Oh, who says this?
Jordan says to serve and collect.
Well, I've heard, I've heard, I've been reading that since the

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70s. We got here.
Would love to hear your views onthe current, current US
politics. Hell no, I'm not going there.
No, I get cancelled. Yeah.
Anyway, no matter what you say, you're going to get cancelled by
somebody. You know, politics is not where
I, when I talk about, I talk about Traffic Safety, traffic
law and police stuff and, and car stuff and, and tech stuff

(01:24:54):
and all sorts of stuff. Somebody asked me what my
favorite doughnut was way back when I meant to answer it, and I
didn't. What is your favorite doughnut?
It's it's got to be, it's got toinvolve chocolate.
You're a chocolate. Yeah, chocolate all day long.
I, I, I'm not a really sweet person, but I love like I'm a

(01:25:15):
sweet person, but I don't eat a lot of sweet.
I, I, I like Raspberry filled Krispy Kremes.
If I had to pick one doughnut tobe my last doughnut, that would
be the doughnut I'd want. I was at a watch event.
I was at the marathon after party after the Toronto
timepiece show, which was a phenomenal event for anyone who
likes watches timepieces in Toronto.
And, and Brian, I apologize. I meant to call you afterwards

(01:25:36):
and tell you all about it, but it was, it was a great event and
I got to see a lot of my friendsin the watch industry watch DNA,
for which I'm I'm working on contributing a bunch of stuff.
They were there, of course, and I shout out to the folks at
Breitling and and marathon and anumber of amazing micro brands
that I I really enjoyed and, andcool ones that were Toronto

(01:25:57):
centric. Like the name escapes me, but
I'll go back when, when I do my video, I, I shot a bunch of
video. I'm putting up some content.
It was just a good time and and the folks at Marathon are
awesome so shout out to them andnot talking about politics.
Look at that. There was a question about
windshield tint. Is windshield tint legal?

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No, it's actually not allowed atall like it used to be a six
inch 3 inch strip, 73mm or something across the top was
legal not not after 2017. Anything 2017 or newer cannot be
cannot have any recertification sensors and stuff and things so.
There there's so much stuff in the in the glass now with new

(01:26:45):
cars. Mopar says 2 foot drivers always
riding the brake so light is on.How does anyone drive with two
feet that isn't driving a race car or a standard?
Vehicle Well, this is the this is the, this is the thing,
right? So in in modern race cars, there

(01:27:06):
are two pedal cars. You drive them, you know you
have one foot on the gas, one onthe brake.
But you can't do that in a road car proficiently because you're
not supported the same way in a road car.
In a race car, you're in a deep bucket seat and you're strapped
to it and you don't move. So you, you don't need your,

(01:27:26):
your left leg for support as youwould in a road car.
And anyone driving with one footon the gas and 1 foot on the
brake in a road car is doing something really stupid.
And I'm sure I'll hear all aboutit.
But they're, you know, they're not going to follow the logic of
that. In a race car, it works because
you're strapped in. In a road car it doesn't work

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because you need your left leg for support.
It, it, it's, it's a totally different game.
It's just a totally different game.
I, I still want to try a race car out.
I I've got to find a race car I fit into, you know?
You you don't fit into ours, that's for sure.
I. Got it.
I got claustrophobic looking at it, never mind getting into it.
It was just like Brian says, hopin.

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I'm like hell no. Like no, you'll never get out.
Well, I and and the the escape hatch on the roof is is even too
small for you to climb through. Well, I am smaller than I once
was so maybe I don't know I I'veshrunk since last time I looked
at your race car. By by the way, shout out to to
your team if you're interested in knowing about IMSA stuff and

(01:28:31):
things. Ryan's involved with the race
team. Yeah, we've got some Mercedes
AMG race cars that we race in IMSA.
Stays competition THAZE. COMP.
Yeah, yeah. And there's a we, we haven't
told, we haven't told the story publicly about what the where
the name comes from, but it's a cool story that'll be part of

(01:28:52):
part of history. Yes, indeed.
Here, here's Albion, Ram says. You guys look like twins and
then. Except, except if someone sees
us. Standing next to one another,
well, it really is like twins, but it's the the the the Danny.
DeVito. Arnold Schwarzenegger version

(01:29:13):
and then Nicholas Rizzi says if you don't, if you don't, if you
2 don't dress up as Santa Claus for December After Dark live
chat. I'll be a highly disappointed in
both of you. Maybe maybe we should do that.
Let's see here the oh, Liz says,well, I just tuned in.
I'll assume the Ford stance on speed cameras were discussed.
The cameras helped me. They they help you which stay

(01:29:38):
like this is always the question.
If you knew if if it was a guarantee that if you went a
kilometer over the speed limit and, and and not a ticket would
come out, but like lasers from the sky, no one would freaking
speed. It would just be in a moot
point. You would not do it because fear
of lasers from heaven. That would, you know, end your
car's driving driver. You know, why is it that extreme

(01:30:04):
measures work, but people don't like them?
Anyone who's like defending the the use of or against cameras is
defending lawless behavior and unsafe driving.
And at least that's how I see it.
But I'm really black and white on this.
You, you are. Except we know politicians

(01:30:25):
aren't. Except when it comes to one
thing, and that is the polls. And I am certain that the the
provincial pollster for the Conservatives has suggested that
polling is very much against these automated speed.
Jordan says it's not lawless behavior, it's government

(01:30:45):
overreach. So the argument is the law is
not is not acceptable. The speed limits are too low.
Thus, I shouldn't have to break the I got to I got to my
response is if you don't like the speeds, if you don't like
the laws, lobby to change them. Get people, get into politics,
speak to your politicians, get representation, make a change.
But the science supports the speed, not not the government

(01:31:09):
overreach. It's, it might be a nanny state,
but it's still a nanny state supported by laws, sorry, by, by
research that says slower is better for pedestrians.
And we're, we're talking about pedestrian safety here.
We're not talking about two carsmangling metal.
We're talking about kids and granny and everybody you care
about going to school or going to the park or going to the
retirement home or going to the hospital or just being in an

(01:31:30):
area that happens to have a highcollision rate.
We don't want people to get hurt.
So we have to slow people down because the oddly enough, the
cars are the ones killing people, not the pedestrians.
It's not the other way around. And I, I very rarely come out
strongly against the cars. So this is a really unique
position for me to take so loudly because I'm all about

(01:31:51):
driving. I drive everywhere.
I'm not, I'm not really riding anymore.
I have a bicycle that I rarely use.
I'm the guy who's trying to get somewhere.
And pedestrians can piss me off too.
When they don't give courtesy todrivers.
They just occupy every space. But what I'm talking about when
bad stuff happens, the pedestrians not going to make
it. And I'm I want to protect them.

(01:32:12):
Davina Duckworth coming through your website or your YouTube
channel says was there a specific campaign to pull over
modified cars? Depends.
I, I, you know, I think there, I, I don't know.
But I mean, I, I've never egregiously modified a car where
it would have attracted attention, mostly because I know

(01:32:33):
the depths at which the dynamicsengineers have worked to develop
the car in order for it to work properly on the road.
So I I don't like second guessing professionals.
When they spend millions of dollars of research and, and,
and then they build the car that's made to do what it does
and then people hack it up with Amazon upgrades, that's, that's,

(01:32:54):
that's it's different. I'm I'm sure that's not the kind
of car you're talking about, butI'm used to seeing the stuff
that the the the peel and stick hood scoops.
Yeah, yeah. But this is what we're talking
about. Anytime you mess with the
dynamics, you start messing withthe suspension or you change a
wheel or you change a tire, you're, you're automatically
second guessing a, a whole groupof engineers who have, you know,

(01:33:17):
spent, it's literally millions of dollars to engineer all of
that stuff. It's, it's millions of dollars
to engineer ABS it's millions ofdollars to engineer stability
control and drive control. And, you know, let alone the
tire and, and you know, the, andthe wheel and the suspension
geometry and the, the, the, all the elastic kinematics that go
into the suspension. So just start, start second
guessing them and think your favorite tuner does a better

(01:33:39):
job. Forget it, but it's not going to
work. Well, I I will say that there
are rarely modification can meananything if you're in British
Columbia or Alberta, I should say anything other than stock is
illegal for my understanding. However, in Ontario, if you were
to make your vehicle sound like a bag of crap, you may like it,
but a bag of crap for everybody else who has to hear the pup pup

(01:34:00):
pup part Ken Muffler, that is a modification that is prohibited.
It's, it's a modification that doesn't meet the standard and
that vehicle would be subject totickets.
And very often we will do campaigns to, to do to target
those drivers because they're breaking the law.
It's not the target of modification, it's the target of
illegal modification. So it depends on the mod, right?
I, I If your vehicle is compliant with law then you

(01:34:23):
should have no problem there. There's issues with too low, too
high, too wide. Those things need to be taken
care of. Can can we have laws against bad
taste? I, I, I'd like to be the arbiter
in that. That that we we would be so
busy. It's like that the the
discussion about making laws to slap stupid people like your
hand would be tired. That was a George Carlin bit,

(01:34:44):
right? So for sure did I?
Did I tell you that Jordan likesBoston cream doughnuts?
That's his choice. He likes Boston cream.
That that is my least favorite. I I I'm not a fan of Jordan.
I I don't I don't disagree. I've never never been a cream
filled person. Yeah, I'm.
Leaving now one thing it's. Just things you shouldn't say in

(01:35:06):
a live stream. Thoughts on What are my thoughts
on people who don't need to wearmotorcycle helmets while riding?
So the question is about being seek and being exempt in the
province of Ontario. Not a safety decision.
It was an inclusive decision. People who, because of their
religious beliefs, couldn't ridemotorcycles because of their
beliefs, they were turbans. I understand the reason they did

(01:35:28):
it. It's not a safety thing.
So I go I, I'm against the concept other than I don't like
the idea of excluding someone because of their faith.
And that's what was happening. Although I've been told that
there are helmets that can accommodate some turbines.
So I I don't know enough to really.
Yeah, They, they chose to do it.I'm it's the law, we got Ishaan

(01:35:50):
Ishaan who wants who says, but to speed cameras really help.
Basically, we can speed if we pay the fine.
Why not speed bumps? And then someone says, why?
What does he say? He said something to the fact if
you, if they're getting multipletickets, they're not changing
their behavior. Thus it doesn't actually work.
I can talk about studies that say 50% of people slow down, 25%

(01:36:10):
of those 75% of the people who slow down continue to drive
slower as they into the further into the areas like they don't
go back up to the speed above. It is effective.
We know that there are fewer tickets that are issued in those
areas even after the the camerashave been in place.
They may get tickets in different locations, but in the
areas where they're that person is going to take it, they

(01:36:30):
generally slow down. Now the issue is that it might
take them 5-6 weeks to get the first ticket, which means they
might have accumulated four or five tickets before they know
that they broke the law anywhere.
I know of a story in the podcastthat I recorded with the people
from the enforcement group. They told me about a guy who did
like 4 laps making a right turn on red without stopping.
Thus he ran 4 red light cameras,got them all at the same time,

(01:36:54):
and he was shocked that he, you know, broke the law four times
and was pissed off. But but if you're oblivious
behind the wheel, you deserve every one of those tickets in my
opinion. And Jordan says science does not
support speed cameras, except itthey do because.
Yeah, except it does. Yeah.
Someone said the Earl, the Pearlsays funny, he won't touch the

(01:37:17):
helmet question, but I just touched the helmet question.
If people keep getting tickets, we talked about that.
Do do, do, do, do. Why do?
What is this saying? Do they still want your money?
So speed up and give them something.
Jordan says over 65, you should start.
You should have to start from day one and take the road test

(01:37:38):
again. My dad's, you know, 80, he, he
had to do a, a test for cognitive ability to, to
basically put the hands of the clock and make, make a clock.
That was a test. Draw a face of a clock.
That's it. In a couple years he'll have to
start doing Rd. tests. And you know what?
I'm not, I'm not against all this.
I don't think 65 is it? I'm too close to 65 to to think

(01:38:00):
that it's an issue. Well, I, I, you know, if we're,
if we're going to, if we're going to start making arbitrary
laws, then then we need, we needhigher licensing standards
across the board and, and you have to be able to pass
fundamental. Track days.
Not a track day that's that's, that's a little too much.
But you know, if I, if I'm making the rules, then it's

(01:38:22):
going to be that way. But you know, you have to be
comfortable with a full ABS stop.
You have to be comfortable with a full ABS stop and turning.
And you know, my mother's passedaway many years ago when she got
those cars with ABS. I'd remind her to go out in in
the winter and practice what ABSfelt like because she was

(01:38:48):
totally not used to it. We have too many bad drivers.
We have drivers who should neverhave been licensed in the 1st
place. We said this earlier, I'm just
reiterating it. We, we should have driver school
and I mean driver school. When you get a ticket of a
certain variety, you should be sent to driver school, have the
option of driver school to reduce points.

(01:39:09):
We should be encouraging people to do better and unfortunately,
it means be tougher on them. It's not the hug a bad driver
day. It should be take away your
license, make you take a course.If you're good, we'll give it
back to you like this crap that just allows mediocrity to to,
you know, be on our roads. Actually, here's an interesting
thing. We talk about traffic and how
bad it is. If we made the roads tests

(01:39:31):
harder, we'd have less drivers, we'd have fewer cars in the
road, we'd have fewer problems. More people take the bus, less
traffic. We're all happy.
There's a guy that long time agoreached out to me on on
LinkedIn, which was oddly enoughof somewhere we simulcast to.
And he said that he came from Ontario, moved to Ireland and he
can no longer drive because he was given a certain period of
time to as a, as a, as a certaintype of license to switch over.

(01:39:54):
And if he didn't take his test within a certain amount of time
and take the additional training, he couldn't drive and
he chose not to because it was hard.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I'm. I'm all about that.
I'm I'm happy to make these rules.
Yeah, I, I, but I'm, but I'm also happy to enforce everything

(01:40:16):
strongly. And I and I don't have sympathy
for someone who says but, but, but the law is no, the law is
the law until you change it and until you change it, don't talk
to me about you don't think it'sfair, because if you're not
willing to do the work to make the changes, you're just
complaining and complaining is just squeaking.
Kevin wants to know why Canada does not employ an app like they

(01:40:36):
have in South America where you can report drivers.
I'm not familiar with an app that does that, but I I know we
have a website that doesn't likeevery police service will pretty
much take a report, which I've I've made reports and I've also
investigated those reports from I've seen it from both sides.
But the problem is, without any kind of actual evidence in
identifying the driver, it's just a letter to the registered

(01:40:57):
donor saying you drive like a dork dork dork A.
Dork dork. And Erica, by the way, is a
driving instructor. She's in the chat.
We're going to get Erica on the show.
This is we went to a round tablewhere we have a bunch of people.
This could be really cool. This is a That's a great idea,
I. Don't like it?
We have William wants to know what Brian's take on.

(01:41:21):
What's Brian's take on deleted diesels?
I don't even know what that means.
I think that's where you take out the emissions control stuff
like you go straight stack rolling coal or something like
that. You know what?
I, I, I don't know enough about it.
I don't really understand. I don't understand the

(01:41:45):
considerations around that, to be fair.
I think it's probably supposed to be a better fuel efficiency
maybe. Yeah, I'd, I'd like to know why
it's been, you know, it's been so long.
I mean, it's been almost 10 years since I had a diesel of my
own. So yeah, I don't know.
I don't know enough about it, although I mean, you know, some

(01:42:06):
diesels are really cool. I've never owned one.
I've never. Buy oh man, I'd love, I'd love
my diesel truck. It was so good.
I've got a couple of friends whohave.
I'd get like, I'd get like 12 miles per gallon.
Whether I was towing the the race car, trailer or otherwise
didn't matter. That sounds good.
I I like the idea of fuel efficiency.

(01:42:28):
So much so that I was considering a battery powered
toy car for 10 seconds this morning.
Yeah. No, I don't.
I don't know enough about the, the, the, the, the diesel stuff
to understand and and you know what the what, what all the
considerations are to have an opinion.
We, we've been talking a lot about and for anyone who's just
tuning in, we've been talking a lot about automated speed
enforcement. We've been talking a lot about

(01:42:51):
driving skill and ability. We've been talking about a lot
of things. It's been, it's been awesome.
We're going to start wrapping up.
I I I do want to acknowledge a Jordan statement.
He says 2 parents don't have a child because an old woman
didn't know how to drive the andhe says that the issue is the
fraud at Service Canada. I think there's a lot of things,

(01:43:12):
maybe I'm taking that out of context, I'm reading comments,
but there there's a lot of issues.
There's a lot there's a lack of enforcement.
We don't have enough cops on theroad, which is why I like
cameras so much. Because if you can't be cop, if
you can't have cops everywhere, at least you can have cameras as
a backup. And both is is better than than
getting rid of one because the other is an ideal version is
ludicrous to me. I, I like, I'd like speed bumps

(01:43:34):
with cameras and I'd also like cops on every street.
I like it to be, you know, a little 1984, but not that much
1984. If I tell you the story about
my, my, my buddy, my retired Sergeant, he, he lived in front
of a school. He recently moved in front of a
school where they had a camera directly across from his house
speed camera. They also employed speed bumps.

(01:43:55):
And do you think that that camera got triggered?
Of course it did non-stop. He said they would speed between
the speed bumps. So everyone who says speed bumps
rock baloney. They are just another thing to
piss me off and and the compliance law abiding driver in
you know, ruin my suspension. No matter what you're doing,
you're going you're unnecessarily wear and tear in

(01:44:17):
your car going over them and andyou're you're reducing response
times for emergency vehicles. Can you imagine being in the
back of an ambulance as a patient who needs to get to the
hospital toot suite and you are being rocked and rolled in the
back of that ambulance as you goover speed bumps for an entire
community? No thank you.
It's stupid. But hey, purple GTI says I spun

(01:44:42):
out at He spun out at 250 kilometers an hour on a highway
a couple months ago in his friend's car, and he's bragging.
No, I I believe that was on on Xbox.
Oh, it's Xbox. OK, it makes a lot more sense
then, because I I imagine every everyone a spin on the 250 on

(01:45:02):
the highway should have been more well.
I don't believe whoever that if if that is is anywhere near
true, they can't articulate whatactually happened with the
vehicle. So let let's just leave it
there. Mayank says I came to Canada in
2019. Your video gives me so much

(01:45:22):
information on about how things are and, and yeah, it's fair.
We do, we do what we try. I, you know, it's funny.
I, I, I my, my dad was selling off some stuff.
We'd be busy at marketplace and he sold off some tires and rims.
And I met a young man, I think he recently came from Egypt and
he came to buy some tires for his new Lexus first.
Yeah, his new Lexus. And he's like, you know, he

(01:45:45):
says, I'm new to Canada and things are different here.
And I'm like, I gave him a sticker because I have some
stickers and for the show. And he says, what's this?
I said, I host a show that teaches people about driving
laws. He says, no way.
This is I need this. I'm like, this is what we're
here for. For everybody who's on the road,
new, new and old, everyone alikecan use some information about

(01:46:05):
stuff and things. Oh, talking about have you, have
you seen the speed bumps that pop out of the road if you're
speeding but are flat if you arenot?
No, I've heard about these things but that like maybe on
social media or something. I saw them on social media and I
said, and someone said we need those.
And I said, but we have snow here.
And he says, well, they have them in Switzerland, so I think
we're OK. And I, you know, I can't argue

(01:46:27):
with that. They have.
I can't argue with that one. But they're probably a gazillion
dollars and need constant repair.
Yeah, yes, yeah. Well, well, no.
They're probably so well engineered and so expensive that
they don't need to be serviced. Well, there you go.
As long as you well, you know what?
I if they wouldn't have blown all the money in Vaughan, taking
years of preparation and work and signing contracts and then

(01:46:48):
bailing because somebody whined and complained about their
ticket, maybe they could have afforded some speed bumps that
were, you know, fancy. It's just dumb.
What they did was so dumb anyway.
And and you know what? If they're going to burn all the
money for the tickets and and and and just set fire to it,

(01:47:10):
they could have left the camerasgenerating money and paid for
speed bumps in addition to the but they're just.
It's not about safety. This has got to be about votes
and other bullshit. Put any.
Yeah, there's there's. Some lack of logic here.
It's there's something wrong, Joe Quinn says how bad, and I
probably didn't pronounce that correctly, but how bad would
driving AG1 without AG driver supervising you be?

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For anyone who doesn't know, to drive with AG1 learner's permit,
you must be supervised by a qualified G class driver in the
passenger seat. They have to have four years of
experience and that experience would have started when they got
their G2. So they have to have a full G
and four years of experience total and they have to be in
the, the car sober supervising. And what happens if you if you

(01:47:54):
don't like, like, like aside from the fact that you're,
you're not, you're not a, a qualified driver to drive loan.
You're not insured because insurance companies insure
qualified licensed drivers. Yeah, it's a it's a good ticket.
It's $110 ticket for Dr. unaccompanied.
It's a 30 day suspension if it'syour first time, 90 days
suspension if it's your second. If it's your third time you get

(01:48:15):
kicked out of the driver's program, the person who will
enter the car, they get charged.If you own the car, you get
charged. I would doubly charge you for
letting an unlicensed driver drive your car.
I mean, I would find every charge under the sun to to
charge you with because I was that traffic cop.
I was trying to help you help yourself and I and I don't miss.

(01:48:38):
Some people, there's some peoplewho do need some help are a
little encouragement. If you if you're, if you're so,
if you don't give a crap about the rules, I want to make sure
that I, you know, helped you remember that the rules were
there for a reason, because theywere all voluntary.
You chose to do something reallydumb and illegal.
And I was going to make sure that you didn't get away with
$110 slap on the wrist. Changing driver behavior takes a

(01:49:02):
lot of work. And in my case, it was a lot of
pen and ship to help to make that happen.
And and I didn't get a bonus. I didn't get any any, you know,
free trips to the no that that doesn't exist.
No toaster, no toaster, but I but I really believed in that
and because if you were going tobe the brand new guy with no
license driving, you deserve everything you get.

(01:49:25):
OK, he, he and and and let's see, Paul says.
I want, I want to see speed cameras used in long term
construction zones. I want to see them used on every
Rd. in Canada and the world. Why should you be able to speed?
And in fact, there's a discussion there's a discussion
about putting speedometer speedometers cart.
They want to be able to control the maximum speed for your

(01:49:48):
vehicle based on a geofence. So what's going to happen, and
I'm predicting this now people are going to continuously Dr.
illegally putting lives at risk.And what's going to happen is
the, the, the, the choice that you have, the free will to go
fast is going to be taken away from you.
Your vehicle will not go faster than the speed limit allows.
Because we're teaching people, or people are teaching us that

(01:50:10):
they can't be trusted with the responsibility of an of an
accelerator. But can I tell you something?
Please. There's plenty of cars on the
road today that people are buying that have that tech on
board and people don't know it. Just waiting for the switch to
be flipped. Yep.
That's going to be interesting. Maybe we do a, a couple of
videos on that. We should talk about that more.
I, I've been given some, some information from a, a person in

(01:50:33):
the speed business and he says that's, that's very, very
heavily discussed all over the place right now.
Oh. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. And at that point, would you
still own your own vehicle or would you do what Elon Musk says
and just call his, his driverless Uber system?
Because he he, he for he. He's selling a concept that no
one should own their own vehicle.

(01:50:55):
That's this is true. And and, and, you know, things
are changing dramatically. We've got this interesting
convergence of technology and personal transportation tech
that is is very interesting. I kind of like driving, but on
the other hand I kind of like being chauffeured too.
I got to say that if I could do the time cop thing, get in the

(01:51:16):
car and say Take Me Home, like the two hours last night after
dinner, I was not a happy camperdriving home.
I did it, But I would have preferred to have had a nap.
And if the technology was safe and reliable, I would do that.
Uberjef wants to know why the cops aren't pulling over cars
with limo tints on the front windows.
They have to see it, they have to catch it, they have to
recognize it. They have to be looking for it.
But I, I mean, I used to regularly pull that stuff over.

(01:51:37):
Brampton's an interesting place.We we did we check out Brampton,
We didn't end up doing our thingin Brampton, did we?
No, we got, we got to get that, we got to get on board with
that. But I I have seen some wild
things in Brampton, Not only triple the speed limit, but
blowing a red light at the same time, not being pursued by the

(01:51:59):
police, just, you know, drivers amusing themselves.
Unacceptable. Canada says Oh no going 12 over
and he went snark. 12 over in the in the 30s is more than 25%
over the limit. That's absolutely unacceptable.
You don't like it, go somewhere else.
You you've, you've heard all thestories about me crossing my

(01:52:21):
nearest four way stop intersection walking my dog
every week. I'm throwing the ball at a car
because they're they're driving at me and the dock.
Every week, the number of times I've nearly been hit in an
intersection is not people who have watched me on TikTok trying
to get back at me. It's it's just parents who are
completely out to lunch droppingtheir kids off middle of the

(01:52:42):
sidewalk or middle or middle of the intersection or they've just
dropped them off. They don't look and then they
hit the gas. And I am so thankful for that.
We have the fact that we have a crossing guard now because that
means I'm not the only one getting hit when we get hit
because it's two people. It's just I don't want to be
alone lying on the ground. It'll be the crossing guard will
be there with me. It's terrible the hey Melody,

(01:53:03):
what's going on? I Jordan says 1984 TikTok.
That's what we are here. Oh, Melody does not want to be
the mechanic that has to fix that speed limiting system.
Yeah, and unacceptable. Canada says the govern me the
govern me more podcast. We need a spoon registry.
Listen, I am actually not someone who likes more

(01:53:24):
government. I am absolutely a conservative,
you know, a, a, or at very leasta centrist who, who leans a
little to the right. I don't want more government.
I can't stand what people are doing.
I, I don't want this ridiculous gun crap that they're trying to
pull. And my politics are different
than my Traffic Safety position.I am a former traffic cop who

(01:53:46):
knows about people who get killed and have gone to far too
many scenes where people don't go home and I know that speed
kills and everyone else is just whining about not going the
speed they want to. I'm coming from a very different
perspective. I'm trying to change driver
behavior. My my reasoning is not to
control or take your money. However, I'm happy to take away
your options and your money if you are going to put lives at

(01:54:08):
risk because you're irresponsible, Totally
different. I don't want the government to
make money. I hope you never get a ticket.
I hope no one ever gets a ticket.
I hope you never pay a dollar because you follow the rules and
you keep people safe. That's that's why.
It's nothing to do with money incontrol for me.
No. Jordan says govern me more
daddy. Everyone's see, but it's it's a

(01:54:28):
trigger. It's a biased trigger.
It's it's not the thing. It it, it really is.
I've got a I've got a great linefrom the, the, the the, the the
show I shot today. Let me find this.
Where did it go? It is.
It is such a great line. You find it.
I got to read this. Mark Lauren says force everyone

(01:54:50):
to drive loser cruisers, AKA theminivan.
He says no one ever speeds in a minivan.
Not true. I've seen tremendous speeds in a
minivan. Not to mention that I've seen
horrible collisions where cars travel through minivans, killing
everybody inside because they'renot.
They're not built. They're not a safe vehicle in my
opinion, but people absolutely do stupid things in those
unacceptable. Canada says if I don't my

(01:55:12):
statement saying I think I said he can leave the country who
doesn't like it. He says well that's going to be
hate speech soon. I I'm not a supporter of that I
but, but hey, we. Were talking about that.
Earlier, Yeah, yeah, no, there'ssome dumb stuff going.
Government's dumb. But well, anyway, I I don't, I
said. I'm not talking about politics,
but Traffic Safety is politics. No, that's a, that's a totally

(01:55:33):
different thing. And, and I would love for people
to take performance driving schools and, and improve their
skills. And, and what happens as a net
result of that is the, a fundamental respect for physics
because you, you know, you, you,you get away with so much and,
and without consequences. But you know, when you've been

(01:55:54):
around it as much as I am, you fully understand the, the, the
physics that are at play. And there are things that, that
cars will not do, they just won't do it.
And the, the other problem is you got a road surface that's
always constantly changing. So braking performance, tire
grip is always changing. And I'll, I'll lighten it up

(01:56:14):
because I don't mean to, you know, lecture, but the, the
line, the line, the line from today's show is braking
performance is more progressive than my political views.
That's awesome. You know, it's funny.
The it's not funny at all. There was some motorcycle where
that is currently the riders in hospital because it was, it was
very serious. I saw the the media release on

(01:56:35):
it. He he lost control on an off
ramp on the highway and I'm guessing it's because cooler
temperatures at night right now and people are not getting used
to it and tires are so important.
The contact patch is not very big And something to start
thinking about right now is whatare you going to do come winter?
Are you getting winters? Are you going to check your tire
quality things to really consider coming up so that you
keep yourself, yourself and yourfamily safe.

(01:56:56):
Unacceptable. Canada says you're a nice guy,
Sean. Appreciate it.
And then CEO zombie says we missed you as a cop.
Let's see here do do do do studded tires ruin the road?
Yes, studded tire is not good and not necessary unless you're
in an area with hard pack ice. They don't work well on dry or
wet pavement. Not good for for Southern
Ontario. You know which they do not work

(01:57:19):
in in this area. The the, the, the winter tires
that I have are made specifically for this part of
the world where we get that, that slash as a result of salt
and they, they're great. Crusty, crusty, says a cop,
saying the government's dumb. This is peak.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You try living in my brain.
I'm so all over the place because I I I really respect the

(01:57:41):
law. I don't respect all the people
changing the laws at the moment.But anyway, Decepticons forever
says, hey, Brian. Hey, Sean, good to see you.
Good to see you, too. He wants to know if you're
driving on the HOV lane in an emergency, vehicle is behind you
blasting emergency lights and sound and you're on a solid line
where you're not supposed to change lanes.
Where do you go? You go to the closest curb Ridge
of roadway. In that case, you'd probably be

(01:58:01):
going to the left curb. Let's see here.
OK, band front plates, please. No, they're, they're double.
It makes you easier to identify.So we went way, way, way longer,
which is often what we do 2 hours is the absolute Max,
though. I apologize to anybody that we
didn't specifically acknowledge,anyone who had, you know,

(01:58:21):
wonderful stuff to ask or say, but we'll do this again because
we have fun doing it. And that's the thing.
Anything. Anything you got.
No, except next time we do need,we need, we need somebody to
come in and jump in on the zoom.Yes, absolutely.
Join us. You're going to get killed off
in any second since it's less than a minute.
So I'm going to hit the music. We're going to say goodbye and
we'll talk to you later. Everybody drive safe, drive

(01:58:42):
sober. Have a wonderful night and we'll
see you soon. Thanks for dropping in and
spending time. It's one of those things.
And hug Samanth and shuttle Tovaz.
Anyone celebrating Happy New Year?

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