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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I drive a lot. Dangers are mainly caused by the maybe 3-5% of drivers who are "conspicuously dangerous." My guess is that they are all sociopaths. The behavior includes weaving in and out of traffic, extreme speeding, and extreme tailgating. Speed itself--for example, driving in the center lane on I-95 doing 78 or whatever--is irrelevant. It's the guy doing 90 weaving in and out of traffic who is going to get people killed. Cops don't seem to be able to deal with this problem. Cameras are ridiculous and ineffective.[/quote]

To be fair I think it’s hard for cops to do much in the moment because if they pursue the speeder there is a good chance they will drive off even faster and kill an innocent person. We need some sort of GPS linked system to send these people steep fines (as opposed to exacerbating them in the moment) and we need to strictly enforce our traffic laws.

I’m also liberal and agree with a PP I’m tired of all the “equity” arguments for allowing people to endanger others.

Lower income people are perfectly capable of driving the speed limit and maintaining sobriety. If they really need their car to get to work and pick up their kids and whatever else makes their life function, then they should make sure they don’t do anything stupid with it.

And on the other end of the spectrum rich people shouldn’t just be able to pay what is to them a small fine and keep on driving like a mad person. There should be a sliding scale based on resources and it should hurt the family with the teen zipping around in a BMW. And if it happens more than once, the car gets impounded.

First DUI should be a felony. It’s ridiculous that it takes 3+ DUIs to finally get charged with a felony. Drinking and driving is not some fundamental right, so I don’t understand why we treat it as a little oops. The only thing I can think is that the people drafting these laws like to drive home from happy hour after throwing a few back and are scared of serious consequences if they get caught.

Drunk drivers are some of the most selfish people imaginable.[/quote]

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