Since the time of Khrushchev, a warning has been issued, that is, the moral destruction of a sinful driver, expressed in writing as a punishment for violating traffic rules. Its meaning is to shame the driver so that he blushes and stops sneezing at the rules. That is, printing not with a ruble, but with a notation.
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In the middle of the last century, if anyone remembers, a lecture on the dangers of illegal behavior given by a traffic police officer was sometimes a response to the driver, akin to a public flogging at a Komsomol rally for being in a fountain had swum. – the warning was worth something. Today, not only the word has been written off. The ruble also devalued. Transgress, Herod, pay, transgress again and pay again. In the family budget, many have direct expenditure items: OSAGO, transport tax, fuel, maintenance, fines …
According to the Russian traffic police, last year the number of resolutions on fines for traffic violations reached an all-time high – more than 200 million! From photo and video recording cameras alone, revenue for the state fund rose to almost an unprecedented 113 billion rubles! In other words, the idea of ​​eradicating offenses by encroaching on the offender’s personal budget turned out to be a chimera. In such cases, one can appreciate the proposal to introduce punishment in the form of moralizing as a preventive measure, that is, evaluate it with a grin. Warnings, that is.