I love the way the Swiss fine speeding. That’s how it should be. It shouldn’t be $50 for everyone. The more you have, the more you should pay.
this, even with license points schemes.
once you are rich enough, driving is just for fun, and them losing their license is barely a minor inconvenience.
a fine should hurt them the same way a fine hurts a poor person
If the only penalty is a fine, it just means that’s how much it (sometimes) costs to do the action.
I was just thinking about consequences for driving infractions the other day.
Fines don’t really work, unless they target poor people, since any amount of money hurts their QOL.
A rich asshole doesn’t care if they are fined $100, $1000, or $110,000, because it doesn’t impact their lifestyle.
What we need to do is punish rich drivers with time. Force them to do volunteer work and community service, in addition to a fine (to pay back the municipality for enforcing these laws).
A few months or years of community service hurts the rich more than a fine (of any amount) ever could.
Speeding laws are a patchon solution. We should build streets that are impossible to drive unsafely instead. (Easiest way to do this is with public transit)
Hop Swiss!