• violentfart@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Why not an exponentially growing fine? A $10 ticket (honest mistake) doubled 16 times makes it $650k

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      12 days ago

      Honestly it should be a % of your yearly income. I remember a dude in Europe got a million euro fine or some shit

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        7 days ago

        Great, first offense is 1%, doubles each time time. For the 16th ticket offence it would be 65,536%.

        Clearly that’s impossible for one person to pay off, so every ticket after 5 gets crowd funded by all the people involved in not revoking the license after 5 offences.

        To be generous, every 5 years with no new ticket, one offence is removed from the percentage count.

        Drunk/impaired driving starts at 5% and quadruples each time, and never goes away. If you get a ticket for drinking and driving at 20, and then again 72, that’s 20%.

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          13 days ago

          Surely you can think of some way that government installed GPS devices in someone’s cars might be worth choosing not to play along with…

          The “be ungovernable” sentiment is pretty common for folks on this platform, right up until the cops could maybe stop people from doing something they dont like and then suddenly surveillance and policing are totally viable solutions that definitely couldn’t possibly backfire or have unintended side effects 😅

          I’d rather stick to traffic calming road design and better pedestrian infrastructure, personally