• @[email protected]
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    1318 days ago

    You’re right, I meant drunk driving, not speeding.

    But some countries take speeding pretty seriously too (as they should). In Norway you get a short jail spell for something like a 30kmh excess. In Switzerland the fines are adjusted for income so that rich speeders pay more - one guy paid over €1 million! Same system in Finland too, I believe.

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      418 days ago

      Speeding and drink driving play a big part in traffic deaths and also the cost of fixing all the people who do survive is totally preventable so I am all for it. Progressive fines sound very fair too, misbehaving companies in some cases also pay a percentage of their profit so why not citizens as well.

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        218 days ago

        My wealthy ex’s family would just pay the tickets, so he never learned.

        I’d beg him not to go 40 in school zones.

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          218 days ago

          Could be that their wealth caused them not to care about fines, if they had to pay 5% of that wealth every time they would definity take it easy in school zones.

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          117 days ago

          Don’t you get deducted points for speeding? Like after a while wouldn’t he lose his license, regardless of how much he pays?

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            117 days ago

            Where I live you only get deducted points for some kinds of speeding. Speeding in a school zone or residential street? Lose points. Excessive speeding? Lose points. Going 120kph in a 110kph zone on the highway between cities? Smallish fine and be on your way.