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Other good earners for the government: - Tobacco - Alcohol - Gambling Other areas with significant social problems and costs: - Tobacco - Alcohol - Gambling What's one more on the list I suppose... GP

Agreed. That's a matter of fact, not opinion. However, that doesn't mean the stated reason for the law is in any way correct or just, or even that the stated reason is in fact the real reason. It's not called politics for nothing. Again, you make the gross assumption that being "well over" the...

Or maybe not. This is admittedly a little old now, but a study around 1990 (PDF) on risk homeostatis concluded that increased fines for exceeding speed limits had no effect on the accident rate, while increased cost of accidents dramatically lowered the rate but had no effect on speed choice. GP

On the gross assumption that they were ever a problem in the first place. Totally irrelevant emotional propaganda. No one likes deaths on the roads or anywhere else, but this sort of rubbish doesn't add anything constructive to the debate. GP

A nice misrepresentation of the real situation: talk specifically about autobahns then give figures for all roads. But then, what would you expect from an organisation with a barrow to push. Also, those figures appear to be from around 2000, when the figures were 11.3 and 9.3 respectively. For...

The rort is about to step up a notch or ten - so much so that Macquarie Bank is getting in on the act. And these will have no warning signs, just Got-You-Sucker! signs after the fact. From an earlier article: If that's the impact of improved driver behaviour, then give me bad drivers any day...