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No no no. Allowing people to drive like crazy until they get into an accident is a formula for normalizing very unsafe behavior.
by fenwick67 7y ago
No no no. Allowing people to drive like crazy until they get into an accident is a formula for normalizing very unsafe behavior.
- pdonis 7y ago> Allowing people to drive like crazy until they get into an accident is a formula for normalizing very unsafe behavior. No, it isn't, because if they get in an accident you hold them responsible, and when their insurance company finds out the accident was the result of driving like crazy, they either drastically raise their rates or terminate their policy altogether. Plus it would be perfectly reasonable for the state to revoke their driver's license if they caused an accident due to driving like crazy. The problem with the system we have today is that (a) we punish people who have not caused harm, and (b) when people do cause harm, we are hesitant to hold them responsible to the extent I described above. Lose your insurance and your license because of one accident? Wow, that seems really harsh. Do they really deserve that? My response is, if they really were driving like crazy, then yes, they do deserve that, because they should have known better. But our current system doesn't seem to like taking that position.