Drunk drivers on P.E.I. may soon have to carry a reminder, and an advertisement, of their crime on the backs of their vehicles.
Transportation Minister Robert Vessey is floating the idea of distinctive plates for drivers enrolled in the ignition interlock program.
"A lot of people have a lot of pride in themselves and an impaired driver sometimes, if they're going to be identified, might make them think twice before they jump behind the wheel of a vehicle while impaired," said Vessey.
P.E.I. drunk drivers' vehicles could get special plates - Prince Edward Island - CBC News
I'm not personally so interested in the shaming aspect of the idea, but I kind of like the prospect of being able to identify a repeat-risk drunk driver while I'm on the roads. Have you ever seen someone swerve while in front of you and yell, "Jesus! Is he drunk or something??" Now for the first time (at least if you live on Prince Edward Island) you'll get to think, "Yep! Might be!" and then put a nice and cozy distance between you and that driver.
Do you think repeat DUI offenders should be easily identifiable on the roads (besides how they're driving, of course)?
P.E.I. drunk drivers' vehicles could get special plates - Prince Edward Island - CBC News
I'm not personally so interested in the shaming aspect of the idea, but I kind of like the prospect of being able to identify a repeat-risk drunk driver while I'm on the roads. Have you ever seen someone swerve while in front of you and yell, "Jesus! Is he drunk or something??" Now for the first time (at least if you live on Prince Edward Island) you'll get to think, "Yep! Might be!" and then put a nice and cozy distance between you and that driver.
Do you think repeat DUI offenders should be easily identifiable on the roads (besides how they're driving, of course)?
I actually like this idea.
If you were driving with your loved ones, wouldn't you want to know who the repeat drunk drivers were?
This is nothing more than further big brother BS. People use the over emotionalized DUI topic to excuse all sorts of expansions of improper government.
Before arriving at conclusions about Big Brother, I think it bears at least some consideration whether that law will in fact make you safer from negligent people driving 2 ton vehicles at 60+MPH.
I think they wrote a book about this once, Scarlet Letter or something like that.
Do you think repeat DUI offenders should be easily identifiable on the roads (besides how they're driving, of course)?
No. The most straightforward way to all but guarantee someone will continue to repeat undesirable behavior is to continue to shame them for their past misdeeds.
A little nookie on the side doesn't kill 10,228 per year (unless that nookie is happening in speeding vehicles).
That's true but the story is also about the moralism and affects of literally branding someone like that, just something to consider.
I actually have zero interest in the shaming aspect of this. "Shame" is for morality police.
P.E.I. drunk drivers' vehicles could get special plates - Prince Edward Island - CBC News
I'm not personally so interested in the shaming aspect of the idea, but I kind of like the prospect of being able to identify a repeat-risk drunk driver while I'm on the roads. Have you ever seen someone swerve while in front of you and yell, "Jesus! Is he drunk or something??" Now for the first time (at least if you live on Prince Edward Island) you'll get to think, "Yep! Might be!" and then put a nice and cozy distance between you and that driver.
Do you think repeat DUI offenders should be easily identifiable on the roads (besides how they're driving, of course)?
Well, you should be interested in it --
This is an old Idea and i have no problem with it.
I have come across many people who were drunk when driving. Unfortunately a good number of them have been truck drivers which is really scary. Now drunk or stoned I have no idea.
When i was working as an Environmental regulator I had a radio in my car and so I could contact the nearest State police station. I always made sure I was right by watching them so a good while before I passed them and they saw I was a Fed or State employee. they usually slowed down then but it was also too late.
BTW where I worked it was legal for authorized state employees to call in possible DUI drivers.
But I'm not.
because as far as I'm concerned, that's all you're going to get out of this. There are plenty of idiot drivers out there all set to kill you with their multi-ton projectiles of commuter death, and they won't have a special license plate.
How about you respond to the other 90% of my post:
Okay, but that's the Nirvana fallacy at work. The proposal wasn't to put warning license plates for all offense, just DUI's. The people who put forth this proposal never claimed it would identify all types of irresponsible behavior.
That's actually kind of my point -- these license plates will never and could never warn us of all the dangers around us, it just shames previous offenders of a particular flavor. Why not ignition locks? Why not license revocations? In other words, why not just stick with solutions that actually prevent drunk driving, rather than shaming drivers for previous behavior?
P.E.I. drunk drivers' vehicles could get special plates - Prince Edward Island - CBC News
I'm not personally so interested in the shaming aspect of the idea, but I kind of like the prospect of being able to identify a repeat-risk drunk driver while I'm on the roads. Have you ever seen someone swerve while in front of you and yell, "Jesus! Is he drunk or something??" Now for the first time (at least if you live on Prince Edward Island) you'll get to think, "Yep! Might be!" and then put a nice and cozy distance between you and that driver.
Do you think repeat DUI offenders should be easily identifiable on the roads (besides how they're driving, of course)?
And neither does "drunk driving".A little nookie on the side doesn't kill 10,228 per year.
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