UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 19
th, 2018 at 1:10am:
Setanta wrote on Feb 19
th, 2018 at 12:23am:
They can book you for going 1k over. A millionaire can pay someone to drive them around, can you?
Yes. Police can fine you for doing 1kmh over the speed limit. But they don't. Because then the public would get into an uproar about it.
Years ago, a woman was fined in Brisbane for doing 80kmh in a 100kmh motorway. Her reasoning for her slowness: her daughter had recently had an operation, and she did not want to exacerbate the pain her daughter was in with a higher speed. The public wrote in to show no sympathy for her. Whatever her reasoning, they said, she could have pulled off the road and allowed the traffic backing up behind her to pass at a normal speed. People said that she caused road rage and could have unsettled/distracted drivers to the point of causing an imminent accident.
A taxi driver can drive me around. Other than that, I have a bike I can use to go small distances.
Quote:If you want to do away with fines altogether and rely on demerits, that's one thing, but if there are fines in place, the only fair way is via income adjusted fines.
People who earn a living in higher income jobs should not be penalised further than a low-income earner because of socioeconomic circumstance. What next? Making millionaires pay more for a meat pie, or groceries (for that matter) because they earn more?
All cars speedos can be up to 10% lower than the actual speed but cannot be above actual speed, ADR. If they bust you speeding you have no excuse.
Paying for a pie is not the same as paying a fine. A fine is meant to be a deterrent, not a meal. If fines have no deterrent value for some, why have them at all? As a deterrent, would Greg miss an hours pay? Would you miss 20 hours pay? Are they equivalent?
Greg will survive quiet well losing an hours pay, he won't even notice it gone, how will you, your wife and kids go losing close to half a weeks pay when you can barely make ends meet as it is?
Having set fines punishes some far more than others.