Comment on Welcome to New York City

• binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I feel like at some point those should start getting points against your license or something.

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  • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Absolutely! 19 in 4 years is crazy. I’ve gotten 2 in 23 years, running a yellow light and not realizing the speed limit changes at night in Texas. Both of those fines were way more than $50. New York is dumb.

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    • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Seriously, Ive gotten one ticket in 20 years. One.

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      • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Alright there might be a little bit of capitalism at play. Fines so low they encourage people to just pay them.

        Too steep and people will either avoid the infraction or dodge paying altogether.

        So this is literally a rich people get to be assholes fee.

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  • bridgeburner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We have exactly this in germany. If you collect enough points, ur drivers license gets revoked.

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• qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  $1200 for 19 violations. No wonder people don’t care about the violations. Red light violation in my country is EUR 320 ($367)

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  • ManOMorphos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In theory he should be paying a lot more to car insurance because of the points and sheer amount of violations. But maybe he’s too wealthy to care about that either.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Those are usually for moving violations, not things like parking fines.

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      • ManOMorphos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Speeding and running red lights are moving violations. It’s possible to get a suspended license from getting 2-3 speeding or red light tickets in a row in some states.

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• 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  11 speeding and red light incidents… less than $1200??? Thats absurd.

  11 separate incidents being caught doing behaviour that has an increased chance of killing/maiming someone… and less than $1200 in fines to deter that???

  this person has proven that they REGULARLY break the law in a dangerous way… and they still allow him to get behind the wheel every morning… and one day when he kills someone, they’ll call it an “accident”

  There’s nothing accidental about allowing this person to drive a 3 ton weapon every day

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Holy shit I’ve only gotten 1 ticket in my entire life and it was BS. It’s…really not hard to not break traffic laws.

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  • ecvanalog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    NOT AT ALL trying to support this asshole but I know from experience it’s much harder in NYC. I know conventional wisdom is that nobody owns a car there — but there are more privately owned cars than there are parking spaces, and the city strictly enforces alternate-street parking.

    His moving violations are because he’s a bad/selfish driver but it’s harder in NYC than almost anywhere else to avoid parking tickets, unless you’re rich enough to pay for a lot/garage, which is about the price of rent in another city.

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Always plan accordingly for the conditions. It’s never ok for your lack of planning to become everyone else’s problem.

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      • ecvanalog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I mean, I handled it. It just involved a lot of getting up early and driving around for long periods of time. I’m only really reacting to the assertion that is isn’t hard. In the city it is, in fact, not easy.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    or break them just enough that you don’t get a ticket.

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