This is part of the self-supporting cycle of the automobile. We seriously need to make an impression on judges and society as a whole that you can get around just fine by bikes and mass transit. Without some sort of general awareness that there are functional alternate transportation available there is way too much tolerance for heinous crimes committed by people driving but what do you expect the judge to do deprive them of mobility? It's almost as if depriving a person the right to drive is a more sever sentence then 10 years in jail.