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lotsofpulpyesterday at 10:37 PM1 replyview on HN

>We do tend to impose them on individual drivers who make egregious and consequential failures, that’s the point.

Do we? It's a common saying that if you want to kill someone with no penalties, have them run over with a car.

Then there are examples like these all over the place. Not to mention distracted driving and DUIs don't even get your license suspended in many or most jurisdictions.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/teen-w...

>The Audi, which Jones had bought one month before the crash, was the third car he had totaled in a crash within 11 months. Speed was a factor in all three collisions, but police did not cite Jones in the first two crashes, prosecutors said.


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crooked-vtoday at 12:06 AM

Also see the 80-year-old woman in SF who killed an entire family at a bus stop, while speeding, while going the wrong way on a one way street, and was sentenced to probation and community service and banned from driving for three years.

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