Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
by notch656a on Thursday July 21, 2022 @07:23PM
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Most people have insurance but the ones doing the crashing disproportionately do not, either because their prior crashing resulted in a requirement for expensive bonded insurance or because their habit of crashing made their insurance prohibitively expensive. I think some places also won't insure drivers who don't have a license, which also correlates well with drivers who get drunk and crash into things.
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Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
by glogla on Friday July 22, 2022 @06:10AM
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The question is why people who repeatedly crash while drunk are not in prison to protect rest of the society.
Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
by notch656a on Friday July 22, 2022 @11:49AM
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Given that vehicles are trivial to get and licensing does nothing to stop driving, you have a fair point. IMO probably better to drop the licensing schemes and then execute / imprison those who recklessly crash into others.
Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
by glogla on Saturday July 23, 2022 @11:01AM
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Not sure about execute, but in my mind driving drunk is like firing a gun blindly - you might not kill anyone this time but it is dangerous as hell and you should definitely not be doing it. I think it should be taken more seriously.