The cost of speeding

[George K]

https://vividmaps.com/cost-of-speeding/

• The country with the highest speeding fine is Switzerland, where a motorist on an average salary faces a penalty up to $17,908 ($13,320 USD)
• Australia has the world’s 17th highest fine: $2,530 ($1,847 USD), for going 45 km/h over the limit in New South Wales.
• The lowest ‘top fine’ in our study is in Sudan: $0.09 ($0.07 USD).
• The highest speeding penalty ever was issued to the driver of a Mercedes SLS AMG who reached 290 km/h and was fined $1,031,192 ($767,000 USD)

[Klaus]

I believe in both Norway and Finland the fine is proportional to the income, so fines can easily go into millions of dollars for billionaires.

[Horace]

@klaus said in The cost of speeding:

I believe in both Norway and Finland the fine is proportional to the income, so fines can easily go into millions of dollars for billionaires.

Makes sense. For the same reason, American bail laws make no sense.

[Klaus]

I got a speeding ticket once in Finland. I didn't know about their system at the time, but I instinctively lied when they asked me about my income. I was still supposed to pay something like 400 Euros. One thing that amazed me at the time was that they told me exactly what would happen, namely that I'd get a few angry letters and then nothing happens. So this is what I did.

[Axtremus]

@klaus said in The cost of speeding:

I believe in both Norway and Finland the fine is proportional to the income, so fines can easily go into millions of dollars for billionaires.

Yes, I vaguely recall reading an article where the big boss of Nokia or Ericsson was fined "millions of dollars" for speeding in one of those Nordic countries. That was probably ~20 years ago.

[George K]

@jon-nyc , didn't you get a speeding ticket in Germany about a year ago?