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That seems dangerous in an emergency situation and technically complicated to implement. They should fine people proportionately to their wealth instead like in Germany.
Germany the fines do not depend on income. Are fixed. AFAIK this is in Switzerland, for local citizens.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/finnish-busine...
> ensuring they could not exceed the speed limit by more than five miles per hour I'm just afraid that this measure can have some impact when the person really needs to overspeed. Like some medical condition in the middle of the night. Not everybody lives near some hospital, nor ambulances can cover the whole city.
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If it is really an emergency you should have already called 911. Maybe the dispatcher says drive as fast as you can cause we cannot get an ambulance to you - but in that case you stay on the phone. The dispatcher talking to you is also on radio with police and the flashing lights are your escort as the dispatcher will tell you. But the above is something that I doubt will actually happen - ambulances are generally cl…
Roads are engineered for a particular speed and flow of traffic. If you exceed the design limits of the road, you may feel very unsafe and be quite inclined to slow down again. This applies even to large, wide, noticeable emergency vehicles. Residential streets often participate in noticeable "traffic calming" measures, like roundabouts, speed humps, wasp waist narrowing, landscaping and trees, signage, etc. Most of…
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Dangerous driving is a violent crime, with potentially deadly outcome. The punishment should be harsh for repeat offenders. Its not a crime your socioeconomic circumstances made you do, its very easy to just drive within the speed limit. Tough punishment for crimes usually done by the middle-class do often seem harsh for people, even though its not really harsh compared to many other actual victimless crimes.
>The punishment should be harsh for repeat offenders. Its not a crime your socioeconomic circumstances made you do, its very easy to just drive within the speed limit. Tough punishment for crimes usually done by the middle-class do often seem harsh for people, even though its not really harsh compared to many other actual victimless crimes. I think it's a strange argument to say we'll make things fair to poor people…
Seems like a lot of effort to keep asocial drivers on the road. Why not just take their drivers license? Then move on to prison time if they keep driving.
For six tickets in a year?! Just take away their license.
As someone from Belgium or Germany how they feel about driving without a valid license and they'll look at you like you asked them to calculate i^2=-1.
Same thing with no insurance.
Yet here in the USA (in most states) we can buy a car off the lot with paper/no plates and have a grace period to register it. You have a grace period on your insurance on which they need to cover the new vehicle at the old terms.
That already gives some leeway. And stretching leeway is much easier than actually getting leeway to begin with.
Seems like a lot of effort to keep asocial drivers on the road. Why not just take their drivers license? Then move on to prison time if they keep driving.
Because unfortunately in the US, the ability to drive is required to get to work. Transit options are non-existent in most of the rural areas.
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Because unfortunately in the US, the ability to drive is required to get to work. Transit options are non-existent in most of the rural areas.
I can accept that this is the state, not the city, but come on - this proposal is specifically for New York, home to one of the very few functional transit networks in America. Let's not pretend that New York (even the areas outside NYC) is on par with rural Wyoming.
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This whole thread is peak "NYC forgets that NY State exists"
In my defense, it’s very easy to. Then again: the law in question has bounds that are reasonable across the entire state. You shouldn’t speed; if you think the limit is too low, petition to get it raised. I wouldn’t object particularly if this bill was stapled to a limit increase on I-87.
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Because unfortunately in the US, the ability to drive is required to get to work. Transit options are non-existent in most of the rural areas.
I can accept that this is the state, not the city, but come on - this proposal is specifically for New York, home to one of the very few functional transit networks in America. Let's not pretend that New York (even the areas outside NYC) is on par with rural Wyoming.