New drug testing for road users

[jellywrestler]

Thing is, the people who wrote this rule don't generally use drugs. So they aren't too concerned about the pitfalls of the rule.

Maybe it's the same clowns who brough it the 4 km tolerance rule, 4% at 100km/h, and the same government insisted by law your vehicles speedo was checked to within 10% accuracy, how fair was that?
the solution, drop the 10% in the warrants of fitness and now they only have to ensure they function.
So we have a fleet of vehciles out there checked regularly for safety, but no speedo checks except that it operates,
Makes me feel much safer on the road

[BMWST?]

Maybe it's the same clowns who brough it the 4 km tolerance rule, 4% at 100km/h, and the same government insisted by law your vehicles speedo was checked to within 10% accuracy, how fair was that?
the solution, drop the 10% in the warrants of fitness and now they only have to ensure they function.
So we have a fleet of vehciles out there checked regularly for safety, but no speedo checks except that it operates,
Makes me feel much safer on the road

agreed .bad laws are bad for the whole system. People dont care about bad laws. The enforcement of bad laws brings the whole law enforcement and justice system into disrepute.

[F5 Dave]

What are you talking about? Zealots love bad laws so they can officiously enforce them. 'It's the law' so I can strut around with my gang feeling morally superior and punishing Joe Public whilst having a mustache.

Illegal to be a Homo. Lockimup.
Illegal to have a drink after 6pm. Lockimup.
Illegal to be a Prossie. Lockerup.

And so on.- Just the laws involved change.

No don't get me wrong. We need laws and we need enforcement. It's the bad laws (see above for what we now consider obvious but were heinous at the time), that need a sanity check.

Yes I don't want me or my family run over by a stoner impaired by crystal meth.
But are they?
It is not easy.

[pritch]

IIRC there was a case shortly after the introduction of the breathalyser laws. A passenger in a car refused a breath test on the grounds he was not the driver. When it got to court the judge said if you refuse a breath test the law says you go to prison. The law did not specify you had to be the driver so he sent the guy to prison.

Presumably the law was changed. It's also assumed that the guy being Maori may have influenced the judges decision. If it was a Cabinet Minister's son the result would surely have been different.