A friend of mine seems to get a ticket about once a year on average (which I don't get - I've been driving for 15 years and never got one) - the thing that really bugs me though is how angry and upset she gets when she does get one; like she's been targeted personally for something entirely outside of her control, not that if you choose to consistently drive 10km/h over the limit you are eventually going to get pinged. She doesn't seem to have the "nothing is ever my fault" attitude generally, but for speeding fines it's like she doesn't feel that responsibility as a driver or something. Idk people are weird

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

I think the fines for speeding here are too low. We should follow some of Australia's pricing if we actually want to discourage speeding. It's clearly not high enough if people can consistently get fines and not even bother to change their habits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Increasing the level of punishment seldom works. It only corrects for one state of mind, the "if i get caught its not that bad" mind set. But a lot of people operate in other mind sets such as

Crafty: "i have thought this out and i am not going to get caught" so the consequences dont matter

Passion: "I really want to do/have this thing!" So the consequences dont matter

Or Disregard: "fuck da police!" So the consequences dont matter

On top of that fines are usually mailed out and take a week to get to you which makes it hard to associate the punishment to the crime because it is long in the past, so people just feel like the punishment is only vindictive.

In saying that however, I am all for means tested fines so that if you are done speeding in your 2025 Mercedes you get a fine that feels like punishment and not just "oh no my parking change!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland-home-of-the-103000-speeding-ticket/387484/

Some dude got a 103,000 USD speeding ticket.

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