Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxii.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxii!tw8023 From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.auto,net.legal Subject: Re: DWI Crackdowns and Car Confiscation Message-ID: <184@pyuxii.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 08:34:18 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxii.184 Posted: Thu Aug 8 08:34:18 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 23:09:47 EDT References: <264@SCIRTP.UUCP> <624@ttidcc.UUCP>, <286@SCIRTP.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 13 Xref: linus net.flame:10648 net.auto:6620 net.legal:1700 The car confiscation solution to drunk driving may be full of holes, but I have a feeling that it would work for probably 85% of the cases. Someone who is rich enough would probably just hire a driver to squire them around if they planned on a bender. It would be cheaper. It would eliminate rich drunk drivers. It would put the fear into all of the rest of the drunk drivers. Nothing we do will ever stop drunk driving. But, we have to try and make a dent in the current problem. Car confiscation seems to be start in that direction. Sure there will be cases where the family may be put into jeopardy, and provisions would have to be made for those cases. No law or rule could ever hope to stop every problem, but a start has to be made to address the problem in a more severe manner. T. C. Wheeler