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The Swiss have the right idea to scale fines according to income.
In Italy this wouldn’t work: all the assholes with cars speeding along highways are formally indigent, not paying any taxes.
The fine should be proportional to the value of the car, or to a formula that includes weight an power of the vehicle
Not paying any taxes is usually a sign of being very rich.
No. It should be tied to a percentage of the person’s wealth value and garnished from any value directed to their estate.
But that’s very be difficult to implement. You would have to start a financial investigation for every fine, an impossible task.
On the other side the nominal value of a car could be easily computed via official tables based on model and age. And you can be sure that rich people will drive expensive car, even if they don’t own anything, on paper
If you don’t wanna click:
They went 321 km/h on a 120 km/h section with their Porsche. They were fined 900€, three months suspended and got two points addedI live in Germany and know someone who got banned from driving for being caught with weed when he didn’t even have a license yet (so he was banned from being allowed to even obtain a license) and this motherfucker drives over 200km/h over the limit and gets to keep his?
Not a big enough fine. Also why not give an article using actual measuring units? He was going km/h and was most likely fined in €.
Edit: nevermind it does say 320km/h and 900€. Why does the blurb not say it?
Why does the blurb not say it?
The article lists both, and has the imperial and US dollar figures secondary in parentheses.
Why that was the source chosen, and those numbers picked out of the article to be posted in the Europe community is a good question.
Why that was the source chosen, and those numbers picked out of the article to be posted in the Europe community is a good question.
OP joined Lemmy 2 months ago and has made 3,600 posts containing an insane amount of links to other articles, and apparently has been banned from some communities. Claims not to be a bot. Take from that what you will.
Yeah I checked the article but it really does not say much more than the blurb. So the question of the blurb remains perplexing.
for the lazy one: 320km/h on 120 km/h limited road (also mph works but kph is missing the actual unit no?)
BERLIN (AP) — A motorist was clocked driving at more than 320 kph (199 mph) on the Autobahn west of Berlin, a record high at more than 124 mph above the speed limit, German police said.
The driver was handed a fine of 900 euros ($1,043), stripped of two points from his driver’s license and banned from driving for three months, the Magdeburg police office said Tuesday.
Not that crazy, I don’t remember how much point is the maximum before you lose your driving licence in Germany ?
I don’t remember how much point is the maximum before you lose your driving licence in Germany?
8 points and you lose your license. You can then get it back after a minimum of 6 months.
Do note, that points drop after a set time, depending on
- 1 point = dropped after 2.5 years
- 2 points = dropped after 5 years
- 3 points = dropped after 10 years
I like that in Denmark they confiscate your car even if it’s lot yours. If you do something extremely dangerous they just keep it and sell it (after a judge deems it so)
