Would it make revenue to sell speeding permits?

I think it would be better to sell people their driver’s licenses after they take Defensive Driving courses. Driver’s Education only teaches you how to drive, not what dangers to look for.

It would make more revenue to stop speeders and give them tickets. It’s a ready market. More revenue means more cops to stop speeders. A win-win!

If you have a license to say, go 10 mph over speed limit in non-residential areas, would speeding fines be higher for said licensees? What other laws could one license to break? Either way, I’ll save money by obeying the laws on the books, but this is an interesting concept.

Where I live, it’s already covered in the form of a speeding ticket. I do believe that they make MORE money that way. A permit won’t stop you from being stopped as they will need to stop you to see the permit. With the chance of a ticket, many people will take into consideration whether or not they have the funds for a speeding ticket so I feel they might drive safer avoiding a ticket over already having permission to speed.

Auto insurance companies would have a heyday increasing premiums and deductibles!

They make plenty of revenue just giving people speeding tickets and jacking up their insurance rates.

What happens when one of these licenced speeders causes injury or death?

Nothing because they paid for the privilege?

@Kropotkin Excellent point. EMS workers get to go as fast as necessary. Do they get in more accidents than normal drivers? What happens when they get in an accident?

I believe that the Autobahn has no speed limit. What are the accident stats for it?

I could buy an electric car and get a decal that would allow me to use the HOV lane whenever I want. Or I could just continue to use the HOV whenever I want and hope a cop doesn’t see me.

@RedDeerGuy1 I had a look and couldn’t find any good data or comparisons.

The fatality rate was 1.6 per 1 billion kilometres travelled, which is double that of a few other European highways.

They’re still relatively very safe because highways themselves are the safest type of road for car travel.

I couldn’t find any data on accident rate, but the accidents that do occur are comparatively more lethal.