Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[ijmorlan]

The trick is in proving "grossly negligent" beyond a reasonable doubt.

Driving right up the curb without even noticing one has hit someone is grossly negligent, unless the reason for doing so is that one has just had an unexpected heart attack or seizure. Anybody who disagrees has no business being a police officer, prosecutor, judge, or lawyer of any kind. We need our justice system to operate in the real world, not in some fantasy world where we need absolute proof of mental state before we can impose consequences for anything.

If people don’t like this, they shouldn’t be driving.

As some economists like to say, “incentives matter”.