<story><title>Estonia has a new way to stop speeding motorists</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/11/07/estonia-has-a-new-way-to-stop-speeding-motorists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bilters</author><text>I can totally stand behind this idea. It’s way more equal than money. Every single person get 24 hours a day, but not everybody has €200 (or however high the fee may be) free at hand. Although I think there should be still an upper limit. Saying if you speed more than X there’s more consequences involved rather than time and&amp;#x2F; or money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loeg</author><text>If you give people a choice, the super wealthy mostly will pay a relatively small fee and go about their day, and you&amp;#x27;ll end up temporarily incarcerating the very poor for the same social malfeasance.  (With some distribution of behaviors in the middle.)  Is that better?&lt;p&gt;The main cost of a traffic ticket today isn&amp;#x27;t the ticket; it&amp;#x27;s the (much larger) uptick in insurance costs afterwards.  If you could just pay $80-120 on the off chance you occasionally got a ticket, without impacting insurance premiums, I&amp;#x27;d speed a lot more often.</text></comment>
<story><title>Estonia has a new way to stop speeding motorists</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/11/07/estonia-has-a-new-way-to-stop-speeding-motorists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bilters</author><text>I can totally stand behind this idea. It’s way more equal than money. Every single person get 24 hours a day, but not everybody has €200 (or however high the fee may be) free at hand. Although I think there should be still an upper limit. Saying if you speed more than X there’s more consequences involved rather than time and&amp;#x2F; or money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hamuko</author><text>We Finns have figured out how to equalise the money part as well.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;finland-home-of-the-103000-speeding-ticket&amp;#x2F;387484&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;finland...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>