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

[Andy Sutton <newslists () pessimists net>]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 01:15 +0100, Drsolly wrote:
> 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. 

I agree it would be very nice, but that doesn't make it so.  People will
do what people will do, and Law is a very poor deterrent - even if you
could substitute our kittenish punishments for some real zingers from
say the dark ages.  I would even go so far as to say it makes things
somewhat worse through a false sense of security.

We need more eyes open to the threat that is still present in the
system.  "We need a law" just doesn't work as advertised.

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