• crandlecan
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    96 days ago

    No, because we have mandatory breaks and such. Every second gets fully recorded and stored for authorities to check. Driving without sleep just isn’t worth the risk of losing your license

    • Rusty Shackleford
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      36 days ago

      So does the United States in their trucking industry. This guy just fucked up horribly. He is not, however, a murderer which implies premeditation.

      • crandlecan
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        -56 days ago

        Driving drunk is also premeditated. As should lack of sleep be

        • @JollyG@lemmy.world
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          126 days ago

          “Premeditated” in the context of homicide means someone intended to kill someone else. That is, they set into motion a course of actions because they believed that course of action would result in the death of a person.

          Homicide in the context of fatigue or impairment are not usually premeditated because people generally do not put themselves in those cognitive states believing that doing so will result in the death of someone else.

          Historically judicial systems have recognized that those cognitive states are more likely to result in unintentional deaths so do hold people operating vehicles under those conditions to a higher standard of punishment than, say, a sober person involved in a fatal crash. At the same time they consider intent and hold people in those circumstances to a lower standard of punishment than those who actually intended to kill someone.