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by shadowgovt 451 days ago
The main reason we don't revoke licenses more aggressively right now is that America's infrastructure is so car-oriented that forcing people to never drive again can be a disruption on-par with being added to the sex-offender registry (1).

If self-driving cars became prevalent, I can absolutely see it leading to an increase in license revocation as a punishment for unsafe driving.

(1) Setting aside one's personal opinion on which is more dangerous to society: people on the sex-offender registry or drunk drivers.

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Iunno, doesn’t stop Canada from issuing 1yr driving bans for 1st offence DUI, and that starts at 0.08

(And a lot of provinces do bans measured in days if you hit 0.05)

America is different and becoming more so.