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85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport
(www.forbes.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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In Denmark we have the lovely new law that if you drive more than 100% over the speed limit and over 100 kmh or drive over 200 kmh at all or drunk driving with over 2‰ they confiscate the car and you are not getting it back at all. They confiscate the car regadles of who owns the car (with very few exceptions) and that is also if it is leased. So far since when the law started they have confiscated over 2000 cars in two years. It's my favourite law of all laws right now. The fine for driving crazy is also nicely proportional to your income and it removes the car so the person cannot just drive without license afterwards.
I can't get behind property seizure without compensation, but I can understand everything else.
Even if they said "you can't have this car any more, but can sell it from our facility" that'd be better I think
In effect, is it really that different to a fine? It seems to have a couple of advantages, though: it's easier to collect, and it's proportional, so a person who can afford a fancy luxury car pays more than someone in an old banger, without the complexity of having to evaluate their income and savings.
This is exactly the reason they are doing it. Proportional to income and the car is completely and physically removed from the road. There was a big issue here where the offender would just drive without license or the car was leased or borrowed so there was no real penalty. Now the leasing company would have to take responsibility for leasing fancy supercars to anyone and everyone and people lending their car to a known drunk or fast driver would definitely think twice.
@TDCN
That part is all good. The problem is they don't care whose car it is. If I was to borrow your car, and then break this law, then YOU are out a car. Yes, you can try and get the money back from me, but that might take a decade if I don't have money to replace your car.
If you ask me, that's crazy.
Normally me neither, bit in this context where you are driving so recklessly you are endangering everyone else and we are talking over double the speed limit I'll allow it. Noone has any rights left when you are doing that kind of stuff deliberately.
As long as it then goes swiftly through the court system to confirm this. Otherwise it is theft, like US asset forfeiture.
@GBU_28 @TDCN In Australia we have a law that lets the police make you watch while they crush your car.
@GBU_28 play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Driving a car is not a right. Especially in Denmark where public transport is an perfectly viable alternative for most of the population.
Totally agree, which I said in my comment.
But owning property is owning it outright. You don't own it at the whim of someone else.
I in general do not agree with government seizure of property without compensation.
I agree with losing your license, losing the privilege to drive and use public roads, etc.
@TDCN @Showroom7561 Impossible in Germany 😄 But it sounds very good - and easy to understand
@TDCN @Showroom7561 the best law ever, and soooo sweet that this sucker got his new car confiscated: https://www.nrk.no/rogaland/shakhwan-ameen-ble-tatt-i-fartskontroll-i-danmark-_-far-ikke-tilbake-sin-splitter-nye-lamborghini-1.16446941
@TDCN @Showroom7561 In my hometown its kind of a hobby to rent fancy sports cars for the weekend and this is as stupid as it sounds. I would love this law for Germany as well.
@TDCN @Showroom7561 I'll be honest I think it's an an odd stance to take to say confiscation is wrong. The 100 kmh limit is about 60 mph, to be over 100% that means the limit is 30 mph. This limit is normally through a town, village or urban area. So if someone drives at 60 mph down the high street, that's not just a "little bit of speeding", that's completely reckless
@TDCN
You should promote this lovely law to our German government. Our #Autobahn would be empty within short time. 😂
#GermanAutobahn
#idiots
@Showroom7561 @briankrebs
@TDCN @Showroom7561 excellent!!
@TDCN @Showroom7561 Sounds like a good idea indeed. Only one remark: what if the car is shared by 2 persons?
@alternative_be @TDCN @Showroom7561 then it's gone for both, I guess, as it's even confiscated from car sharing companies.
It's still confiscate. The law is pretty clear that it pretty much doesn't matter who owns the car.
@TDCN @Showroom7561 unfortunately, police in the US have a great deal of leeway in how and when they enforce laws like this. I’m sure some wealthy individuals would get punished, but as is often the case over here, non-whites would probably be disproportionately represented as they already are with civil forfeitures. Conversely, I am all for the drivers of White BMW/AUDI SUVs having their cars seized and crushed, you know who you are.
@TDCN @Showroom7561 do you have breathalyzer tests that actually work in normal use here? because if not this is just stealing cars, lol
I don't understand what you mean, of course they work and then if its high they verify with a blod sample to verify and to give you the benefit of the doubt
@TDCN @Showroom7561 onfeel they should drop the driving to 50% over the speed limit ... Very generous with 100%
Hugz & xXx
@TDCN @Showroom7561 I assume they keep the car, so they get to steal innocent people's cars (belonging to people who committed no crimes) and keep them for profit.
@immibis @TDCN @Showroom7561 I rather suspect there are ways for the owner to petition it’s return, or get damages from the perpetrator
@TDCN @Showroom7561 I think you mean blood/alcohol level of .2% - at 2% you would be long dead. And .2% is not driving drunk, that’s driving practically passed out. To be that drunk a 50kg dude would need to have 7 drinks in an hour. That person needs detox, not a car.
https://www.healthline.com/health/alcohol/blood-alcohol-level-chart
@Z_Zed_Zed @TDCN @Showroom7561 2‰ = 0.2%. The per-thousand sign isn't used often in informal English, but if someone took the effort to select the character, they probably meant it. 🙂
@deFractal @TDCN @Showroom7561 good call. Totally missed it.
@TDCN @Showroom7561 The law seems inspired by the Swiss. They have had proportional fines for long (e.g. I recall the wealthy Finn racing in CH in his sports car and had to pay a fortune). Car removal is probably common in CH as well.
@TDCN @Showroom7561 What would happen to Carsharing Organisations? Forcing them to drop these customers would be fine but confiscating their cars would be a very bad idea IMO.
@TDCN
To seize the property of someone who isn't the perpetrator goes against my sense of right and wrong and is normally a signpost of fascist governments.
@Showroom7561
@TDCN @Showroom7561 wow this is incredible! Now definitely this becomes one of my favourite laws too, while admittedly I never considered I could have any such favourite list.
@TDCN @Showroom7561
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@TDCN @Showroom7561 This sounds terrific. Do you have a link to that law please. (In Danish is fine). I want to use it as an example for discussion leading up to my city’s elections next year. It will upset the many car brains who run my city. 😀
It's not a single law to say but changes to the existing law so the actual writing is spread out over a few paragraphs. Here's a link for the entire traffic law LINK Start at §119 about confiscation and §133 about offences that causes you to loose your licens. The details can be a bit difficult to sift out. It's law stuff I guess.
@TDCN @Showroom7561 Rich person drives 240kmh drunk out of their mind, loses expensive car, gets another the next day because it's still just pocket change to them.
Boyfriend "borrows" the old-but-working car of his abused girlfriend who's barely making it paycheck to paycheck, drives 110kph, her car gets seized and she now has no hope of escape.
An extreme comparison? Yes. But it illustrates that nice simple one-size-fits-all laws often have abhorrent results.
@TDCN Did you know a screenshot of your post is on Reddit (saw a bot post it here on Mastodon) https://redd.it/163foqd
Lol thank for letting me know. That's definitely interesting. I ditched Reddit so don't really care for karma farmers. They could at least have linked to my original post but it's Reddit after all so what can you expect. Funny it gets reposted back to lemmy
@TDCN @Showroom7561 like most fines, this just makes it legal for rich folk and potentially life-destroying for poor folk.
If this happens to a taxi driver, they might end up homeless. If it happens to a rich playboy they'll just go buy a new car and carry on speeding.