I believe the punishment should act as a deterrent. In the same vein that DUI laws will strip you of driving privileges, extract high fines, and possibly jail.

I believe the punishment should act as a deterrent. In the same vein that DUI laws will strip you of driving privileges, extract high fines, and possibly jail. And it's in the same frame of thought, exercising poor judgement. Being inattentive, with a 2.5-ton vehicle, at 10m/s should be treated as being over 0.08% BAC. Yet, only one of them is treated as a criminal violation.