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Speed far above the limit and we'll take your car, Austria says

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Australia (not to be confused with Austria) has had "anti-hoon" laws in effect for quite some time, varying by state, but with most states being able to impound your vehicle, and for repeat offenders in some states, have said vehicle destroyed.

https://www.liquisearch.com/hoon/anti-hoon_legislation_in_au...

Happens in Switzerland too.

In addition you get a minimum jail sentence of one year.

The scale for a "Raserdelikt" is

40 km/h too fast in a 30 zone 50 km/h in a 50 zone 60 km/h in an 80 zone 80 km/h on Autobahns (120 max)

I, for one, support that. When you're driving above 100 km/h within city limits you really deserve what's coming.

Seems odd that this obvious and uncontroversial consequence would be news, tbh.

The Ontario Provincial Police can also seize your car, though I believe it’s temporary.

One of the suburbs of Toronto also has signs up saying that they’ll seize your car if you’re doing something like 50kph over the limit, but I can’t for the life of me remember which.

Why don't they just force installing of a governor that caps the speed ~10Mph or so above the max speed limit if their concern is highway speeding at 90Mph+

This is already happening across Europe. EU regulation requires speed limiting technology on all new cars sold from now on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_speed_assistance

GPS-based speed limiting is dangerous, you are on the highway but it thinks you are on the exit ramp and your car brakes hard out of nowhere

Sounds like autopilot

You're getting downvoted for this but you are correct and people will die so some bureaucrats can feel like they made a difference.

Quote:

The planned change in legislation announced by the governing coalition of

conservatives and Greens is aimed at toughening Austria's rules to bring them

closer to those in other countries like neighbouring Germany and Switzerland.

> coalition of conservatives and Greens

Sounds like an interesting combo.

It shouldn't have to be so strange. While I don't know anything about Austria in particular, both fiscal conservatism and conservation have a lot in common, and there is a small government, efficiency focused version of a green philosophy. In practice, both parties end up generally diverging along ideological lines.

Has been happening on state level in Germany for some time [0], even in highly industrial states.

Think of it of conserving via green means. Establish and support industries of the future, protect the environment, but remain fiscally responsible.

Especially in Germany conservatives are very linked to the Church which also has been traditionally very strong in environmentalism. Particularly in the East where much dissent against the socialist regime evolved in church groups, partially through concerns about the massive pollution by (amongst others) coal plants.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz-gr%C3%BCne_Koalition?w...

They both want to tell you how to live your life and curb freedoms seems like a good match

Poland is doing the same for drunk drivers

https://archive.ph/0McbR

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