The fines for speeding & mobile use while driving are now to double. This is the traditional “stick” approach to penalise for bad behaviour.
Now bear with me: we are taught that people are much more responsive to positive reinforcement.
Why not, instead of penalising bad drivers, *incentivise the good ones?*
The guards would drive around and catch drivers who **are not** using a mobile phone. They would then give them money and a pep talk (“Good lad!”, “Now that’s what I call good driving sir!”)
It would make people drive safely, hoping they get stopped by a guard and given €80 for adhering to speed limit.
The monies for the anti-fines would be funded by bad drivers, the cost to the state would be neutral. Your poor driving would fund someone else’s good driving.
It doesn’t have to be €80, many would happily not look at their phone for a fiver.
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That’s fine. I do less speeding and more coking nowadays.
Do they realise they also hurt people insurance wise, which is usually an even higher amount over the 3 years? BS to make more money.
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Wait, we can post a link _and_ a text post at the same time now?
Rage for Bimmer, Audi & Mondeo drivers.
I don’t think this will make a blind bit of difference. I don’t think that people really care about the price of the fine, more so the effect of the penalty points on their insurance. Fines just don’t work as a deterrent to speeding