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I don’t get that. Repeat offender => temporary removal of driving license. Done. You can make it progressive, remove it for a week, next time 3, etc. I guarantee this will calm people down.

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It says in the article that people who lose their drivers license on account of speeding usually keep on driving anyway. I also feel like this is already the case in a lot of countries yet speeding still exists so I don't know if I agree that this is this simple solution no one is thinking of.

Ok the problem is not the speeding then, it’s the fact people without driving licenses can drive daily without getting caught.

That feels like it could be fixed with forced impoundment or surrender of the offender's vehicles, and a certified mail notification to everyone they might know that might loan them a car notifiying them that if they do lend their car to the offender knowingly, they'll be held partly liable.

It's never going to be perfect, nothing will, but reducing the odds of bad behavior reduces the odds of bad outcomes.

Most police cars that I know of have license scanners and that scanner will inform police if the owner of said car has a suspended license, which results in an immediate trip to jail.

Fairly simple solution - catch someone driving with taken license - 364 days in jail.

(Yes, I know I am conflating your view with other people's in this thread.)

"GPS-based speed limiters are too draconian. We should throw more people in prison."

The problem is, at least in Virginia, every single speed limit is set low, and cops randomly pull over cars that are just traveling the same speed as the cars around them, all above the speed limit.

So license removal is not really fair. Not that this is any better, but if you at least get to keep driving legally, its generally slightly less worse.

I drive through Virginia a lot, and have never seen speed limits set any differently than any other east coast state. Never had a problem obeying the speed limit, knowing the risks of speeding there.

If everyone is disobeying the law, they should all be cited but that is difficult for an individual cop. I don’t see why, as long as the officer isn’t racially profiling, selecting one violator at random is unfair. Can you explain why?

As for license removal being unfair - did the person cited not commit the offense?

Just because everybody else is doing it doesn't mean you have to as well.

Except that driving at a speed significantly different from the surrounding traffic increases the risk of a crash.

Speeding is one of the leading causes of fatal accidents.

Tailgating is one of the leading causes of non-fatal accidents.

Sounds like it's safer for me to let people tailgate me at the speed limit.

Many of the people killed by speeding are not, themselves, speeding.

I’m not sure that is the case. Bunching together look like a higher risk to me.

Bunching together happens because of irregular speed. You have traffic clusters because the front is slower than whatever the "natural" speed is, but not so slow that people elect to pass.

If traffic is all moving in a narrow range of speed the clusters are smaller and less dense.

So does speeding.

Yeah. That solves the problem. Repeat 3 times? Lifetime ban.

Full self driving can’t come soon enough.

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