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

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Mon, 14 May 2007, Andy Sutton wrote:

> 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.
 
It works great here. Maybe Americans ignore the law. Maybe you should 
abolish that silly "drive on the right" law, it makes things worse through 
a false sense of security.

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