• @[email protected]English
    23•8 days ago

    In Estonia, at your second speeding drunk-driving violation they confiscate your vehicle - and if it’s an SUV they send it to Ukraine.

    For backstory, see latest episode of the podcast The Urbanist Agenda.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•8 days ago

      I heard this was if you get caught for drunk driving the second time, they stepped up their game damn.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•8 days ago

        You’re right, I meant drunk driving, not speeding.

        But some countries take speeding pretty seriously too (as they should). In Norway you get a short jail spell for something like a 30kmh excess. In Switzerland the fines are adjusted for income so that rich speeders pay more - one guy paid over €1 million! Same system in Finland too, I believe.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•8 days ago

          Speeding and drink driving play a big part in traffic deaths and also the cost of fixing all the people who do survive is totally preventable so I am all for it. Progressive fines sound very fair too, misbehaving companies in some cases also pay a percentage of their profit so why not citizens as well.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•7 days ago

            My wealthy ex’s family would just pay the tickets, so he never learned.

            I’d beg him not to go 40 in school zones.

            • @[email protected]English
              1•7 days ago

              Could be that their wealth caused them not to care about fines, if they had to pay 5% of that wealth every time they would definity take it easy in school zones.