you are kidding right?  or are you just blissfully ignorant?  it would
not punish the rich equally, the rich have chauffeurs, and the
chauffeurs would be the ones driving, also interestingly, in colorado
chauffeur licenses have twice as many points as an ordinary license,
though they need a regular license for when they aren't actually
chauffeuring, meaning the rich can afford to have someone else speed
more than you can afford to speed or violate other traffic laws.

secondly, yeah, and the death penalty would be even more effective, but
it still wouldn't be right.  you don't get to cause people an
arbitrarily large amount of inconvenience for violating minor laws,
which is what speeding laws are.  most studies have concluded that speed
differentials are dangerous, but going a little faster isn't that
dangerous.  also, here in the u.s. and probably in most places, city
streets are deliberately assigned a speed limit 5 mph slower than the
traffic guys think is reasonable on the assumption that many people will
speed by about 5 mph, thus ensuring it's still relatively safe since
most people still aren't going too fast for the road.

those who speed repeatedly in this country do lose their license to
drive.  while some drive without a license, the penalties do go up steeply.

and what's your solution if they don't happen to own the car they are
using?  what if they borrowed the car from someone who didn't know they
didn't have a license (you'd have to be pretty stupid to let an
unlicensed friend borrow your car, though like all stupid things it does happen).

can you be a little less simplistic?  are you 12 or 13?  or have you
just not experienced much in life?  i'm 41, and i've experienced a lot,
including seeing a lot of stupidity and occasionally being stupid myself.

far, far more serious a problem than speeding is people going too fast
for conditions, speeding down the snowy possibly icy highway, driving
too fast in fog when they can barely tell where the lane is, these are
the things that lead to serious accidents, not going a little faster
than you are supposed to down the highway or most city streets, though
obviously people should take speeding in residential areas more seriously.

Jake Anderson wrote:
>
> personally i think fixed speed cameras are a bit silly, everybody always
> slows to go through them.
> what i think is needed is massive wide spread booking for anything 5km over
> the limit.
> fine is $1 payable at a police station or somewhere equally inconvinent.
> you would have near instant compliance i would think and it penalises rich
> and poor alike.
> those who are willfully drastically speeding can have their licence revoked
> and if they keep it up their car sold with the money going somewhere
> usefull.
>
> people need to be aware that the cops are "everywhere" and that they are
> watching. But at the same time its obviously *not* revenue raising.
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