Swiss dude gets a 98.500 Frank fine for tailgating. Similarly someone in Finland got a €121.000 fine for speeding.
The problem with these income adjusted fines is privacy. Finland has a central database with everyone's income that cops can apparently just access. It's effectively a kidnap shortlist. Though to be fair, these guys were already flaunting wealth so for them the additional risk is marginal. But everyone is in that database.
In fact, tax records are public in Finland and everyone can request them at the tax office. Same in Sweden I believe. Lists of people earning over 100k€ are published by the media every year.
how so not swiss of them.
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wait so if elon was swedish & speeding he could get a 2 billion ticket but if his driver was speeding it’d be like 200? asking for a friend.
It's based on income, not wealth, so the state might actually have to Elon :-)
As a Swiss (who never got a serious fine thus) I might bring clarification. What you refer to are what we call "day-fine" but official name is "pecuniary penalty". These are not decided by the police and not just sent home with an invoice. It happens only for serious crime and infraction. You will get to the court and the judge will define a number days you get fined (between 3 and 180 for all infractions and up to 500 for important fraud or money laundring). Then the justice require an extract of tax report and define the cost per day-fine (between 30 and 3000 CHF more or less same in USD).
If the person don't or can't pay, it will be converted in prison time (not a 1-to-1 rate).
For speeding, this could happen if you over speed more than twice the limit (more or less) outside highway and 80km/h above on highway, which mean starting at 200km/h on section with the highest speed limit of 120km/h, after all margins and uncertainties deduced, so you must be like 210km/h on your speed-o-meter to reach this. Which is already quite crazy (if you are not from Germany).
Morality, if you want speed like crazy, go to German, no fine on unlimied sections.
It sounds like Switzerland did a better job at protecting privacy here. The police mobile app thing referred to Finland. Maybe someone there knows more details.
Germany is magical. No matter how fast you drive, there's always a traffic jam up ahead to keep your average speed at 80 km/h.
