• huppakee@lemm.ee
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    6 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.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      5 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.

      • huppakee@lemm.ee
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        5 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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        5 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?

        • dankm@lemmy.ca
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          5 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.