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

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Another important point:  Roads belong to governments, so they get to make
the rules.  If someone wants to drive drunk in an unsafe car with no
headlights at 100 MPH and not get arrested, then they should drive around on
their own 100-acre farm.  Andy and Brian seem to missing a really basic
issue: that public highways and streets don't belong to them.  

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Drsolly
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 8:15 PM
To: Andy Sutton
Cc: funsec
Subject: Re: [funsec] UK: Drivers may be banned from smoking at the wheel

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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