- cross-posted to:
- fuckcars@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fuckcars@lemmy.world
New law in Texas will make drunk drivers who murdered parent or guardian to pay child support until the child is 18 years old.
You must log in or register to comment.
I don’t disagree with drivers paying damages, but I see laws like this as whack-a-mole with symptoms of the problem of car dependency. Bars and restaurants serving alcohol with car dependent design is just a bad idea. No amount of laws is going to prevent drunk drivers from killing people as long as they remain the only way to get to or from places people consume alcohol.
deleted by creator
Bike infrastructure needs physical separation. Bollards separating lanes at minimum. The average Joe would be financially WAY better off just renting trucks when they need one.
deleted by creator
Better to not need to share the road at all and just have walkable citys with smaller road with squigles in the more urban places to prevent speeding
Liquor licenses should not be granted to establishments without public transit during business hours.
The American idea of DRIVING TO THE BAR, many of which have parking lots, is completely an utterly unacceptable.
@knoland @Sensitivezombie @neanderthal That is an interesting idea, but also very urban-centric. For most of my life I lived in places that had no public transit. So even if I went to a bar that had transit, it wouldn’t have gotten me home.
Rural places can have public transit. Many rural communities in other countries are served by busses.
It is supposedly a personal moral failing every time someone drives too old, too tired, or too impaired, but if trains, busses, & walking were the default ways to get around then this chronic societal problem would diminish dramatically. For the vast majority of US citizens busses, trains, walking, biking, etc are not viable options because US infrastructure & city planning overwhelmingly neglects everything but the automobile.
Incompetent driving is rooted in systemic failures, not personal moral ones.
Exactly. In the US, we put bars in strip malls and remove most public transport, then arrest people for driving drunk
@AfricanExpansionist
Agreed. Separation-of-use zoning spawns drunk driving.
@Vinegar
I doubt we’ll ever see anything but the treating of symptoms in our lifetime. Especially sunce
CorporationsCitizens United still exists.
Removed by mod
W.?
Removed by mod
Win
Wow that was a fucking lazy abbreviation
I think it’s more slang than abbreviation. Might have evolved from FTW. But I’ve heard folks say “take the L” so it may just be from that as well.
Given the finances of drunk drivers with records, this is akin to a death penalty or an induction into slavery. I can’t say they don’t deserve it.
This is probably good justice, but idk if it’s going to reduce drunk driving.
It’s crazy to me that in America drunk driving (with no victims) isn’t a felony on its own. In Canada it’s their version of a felony and generally a way bigger deal. In America you seem to only have consequences when someone’s hurt.
Crazy that MADD was able to lobby to get all states to have 21 as the legal drinking age but not able to lobby to make drunk driving a felony because it’s too ingrained into America since people like going to bars but don’t wanna pay for cabs and have no other transit options.
deleted by creator
