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P.E.I. drunk drivers' vehicles could get special plates

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P.E.I. drunk drivers' vehicles could get special plates - Prince Edward Island - CBC News

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.

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)?

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.
 
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?
 
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?

Won't someone please think of the children!!!!

God, I can't wait till we can have a debate on DUI where that dumbass argument isn't hauled out.
 
I think they wrote a book about this once, Scarlet Letter or something like that.
 
I think PEI has some good roads, although nothing like an interstate highway here in the states. I'm generally ok with this except for the issue of ownership. If there were a plate that went with the person and not the car, I'd be more in favor. If a wife has to drive on the car because the husband got drunk, I don't think that is right. If the husband had his own plate and had to indicate what car it would be usable on, that would be my preferred way to implement this.
 
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.
 
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.

Not any more than the ignition lock already provides. These sort of identification markers are to single individuals out for scorn, ridicule, and closer monitoring.
 
I'm fine with this. What I fear though is that repeat DUI offenders would possibly view this as a type of warning so that they can somehow justify drinking and driving again due to others knowing that the driver of a vehicle has been convicted of a DUI charge.

I would be more comfortable if this was some kind of removable sticker that the driver had to put on each vehicle they operate.
 
I think they wrote a book about this once, Scarlet Letter or something like that.

A little nookie on the side doesn't kill 10,228 per year (unless that nookie is happening in speeding vehicles).
 
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.
 
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.

I actually have zero interest in the shaming aspect of this. "Shame" is for morality police.
 
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.
 
That's true but the story is also about the moralism and affects of literally branding someone like that, just something to consider.

Not interested in that, only whether identifying repeat offenders can increase your own safety on the roads.
 
I actually have zero interest in the shaming aspect of this. "Shame" is for morality police.

Well, you should be interested in it -- 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.
 
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)?

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.
 
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.

I've heard many a story of truck drivers going for days and days on Dexedrine. To say the least their nerves are a little shot by the third day and probably aren't thinking so clearly. I can easily see that having been the scenario when one truck driver just decided to turn left into my lane...while I was right next to him. If the lane to the left of me hadn't been clear there would have been a problem.
 
But I'm not.

How about you respond to the other 90% of my post:

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.
 
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?
 
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?

I can get behind that.

Sorry, I'm just not feeling very combative today.
 
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 don't see the point.

I stay away from bad drivers and dangerous situations - I don't spend my time LOOKING at freaking licence plates.
 
I'm from the maritimes and it has a huge problem with drunk driving.

I don't know whether this is the answer.

But it's something.
 
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