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The way to stop drunk driving is to make driving OPTIONAL. Without adequate pedestrian and cycling facilities, people are forced to use public transit and cars
by foxyv 5y ago
The way to stop drunk driving is to make driving OPTIONAL. Without adequate pedestrian and cycling facilities, people are forced to use public transit and cars to get to bars and restaurants. Make public transit intermittent, unreliable and dirty then stop service well before bars let out? Now there is ONLY cars as an option. Ride share has helped but it is much more expensive and is almost as much as the bar tab.
Now they want to put stupid devices in people's cars that will randomly strand them in the middle of who-knows-where because they "Look Drunk."
- landemva 5y agoThe way to stop drunk driving is for local prosecutors to indict drunk drivers in accidents for attempted homicide, and for local juries to then convict. Word will get around fast.
- foxyv 5y agoI'm always suspicious of any solution that involves expanding police powers and fines. This creates a conflict of interest where police and cities oppose anything that stops the stream of DUI fines and impound revenue. In addition it grants powers to the police that can be abused to stop and harass the innocent. Austin Texas alone is raking in over 60 million in fines each year. https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/fiscalnotes/pdf/HB02048F.pdf https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/fiscalnotes/pdf/HB0204...
- theonlybutlet 5y agoHumans are social creatures, this will change nothing, there's plenty of full jail's in the US to demonstrate stricter laws don't necessarily work.
- copperx 5y agoTo add insult to injury, sometime establishments tow cars left overnight. That happened to me. I took an Uber home, left the car in the bar's parking lot, and in the morning, the car was gone.