uh, my dude, millions of people break moving vehicle codes across the country every day with no consequence. in San Francisco some lady killed a family of 4 with, essentially, no consequences, she got away with straight up murder, she gets her license back. every community in california, you can more or less legally commit murder so long as you do it in a car and claim you were confused about the accelerator and the brake. so i think you're invoking one of the worst possibly comparisons you could.

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thraway3837 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yup, worst possible comparison. 40,000 people die from car accidents. That doesn't even cover pedestrians, cyclists. You know what the penalty is for murdering someone with a car? nothing. you get to go back to society like nothing happened.

Oh and that lady that murdered 4 members of an entire family? The judge chose not to pursue charges, and her family in the meantime did an asset transfer so that nothing could be pursued with in civil court.

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Legend2440 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The position of the legal system is that car accident deaths are not murder.

It is extraordinarily rare for drivers to see criminal charges unless they are drunk. It's a matter for civil court.

>her family in the meantime did an asset transfer so that nothing could be pursued with in civil court.

News articles are reporting that the asset transfer has already been reversed. That kind of stunt never works - courts aren't stupid and they don't like it when you play games.

https://sfstandard.com/2026/03/20/mary-lau-sentenced-probati...

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nancyminusone 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's way too many TV lawyer commercials and billboards to suggest the penalty is "nothing". Those advertising dollars come from somewhere.

	▲	criddell 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's true. Somebody is going to sue your insurance company.
	▲	micromacrofoot 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		those are civil lawyers, so people suing each other, not criminal

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someonebaggy 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I remember a case from Germany where an elderly lady chose to speed down the pedestrian sidewalk and bike lane and mowed down a whole family in central Berlin. 4 deaths I think, no charges, no suspension.

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iAMkenough 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I agree, since you can legally run over people in my state now.

They should have used an example like attacking a foreign nation’s healthcare systems and not realizing it for months due to poor network monitoring practices.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/world/asia/openai-austral...

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redanddead 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

what the fuck, SF

	▲	soco 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You probably mean "what the fuck, USA" and even that would be wrong, because another commenter mentioned a case in Germany, and I know about a driver who killed a cyclist (which I knew) in Switzerland and was fined like 500CHF.