Ontario's Street Racing Law a Good Idea?

Ontario's new law is that if a vehicle is caught racingSpeeding in general should have been the focus, not
50km/h passed the limit, they are automaticallystreet racing. Not that street racing is really the main
classified as a street racer. They are alsoharm for anything. For example, out of all accidents on
automatically fined a minimum of $2000.00 dollars thatthe road that have caused death, only .12 percent
can run anywhere up to $10,000.00. An automaticwere caused by street racing. All others were due to
seven day suspension is given, and if you are caughtdrunk driving, driving while fatigued, or any other form
for a second time its an automatic 10 year suspensionof driving mishaps.
is issued. Is that a good enough deterrent? ApparentlySo, once again, they MAY NOT BE STREET
not. This is because most who are speeding at thatRACING, how can we be sure? Funny though, how
excess are not street racing.Canadian Government has earned over $2 million
The street racer my be a 40 year old woman, fordollars, thanks to all the "street racers" that were late
example, that is late for work. Is that possible? Nowfor work.
think about it, should she be classified as a streetTo re-emphasize my point, are we teaching are
racer? Should she be "automatically" accused of that?teenagers and young drivers to falsely accuse others?
What if someone was driving down a hill,Yes, these drivers should be deterred. It should end, but
"automatically" their car will increase speed by 30 kmnot in the way of falsely accusing a huge number of
h. If they were already doing 10-15 over, they havepeople. If that's the generation we want to raise, the
already exceeded the limit. But yes, I really understandmorals we want to teach, then good job ONTARIO,
exactly why we should call them street racers.we are on top of the line.