Re: UK: Drivers may be banned from smoking at the wheel

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Mon, 14 May 2007, Andy Sutton wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 23:07 +0100, Drsolly wrote:
> > The point isn't to protect people from their own folly, it's to
> > protect me from someone else's folly. 
>
> It's an common conceit to think that law equals protection.  At best it
> increases the consequences column, but never perfectly nor always in
> predicted ways.  People will still drink, drive, and jump the median.
 
Yes, but wouldn't it be nice if people were discouraged from driving while
out of their moinds on booze? I'm not after perfect safety, I just want
things to be a bit better than they would be with millions of boozed-up
idiots not controlling a ton or two of car.

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