In Sweden - where they tie the fine to your income - some rich fella paid 175,000 dollars in fines for one drunk driving incident.

I believe american states could do a LOT more to make drunk driving less of a problem.

special colored liscenses that prevent the convicted drunk from buying booze or buying a car.

Seizing cars driven by drunk drivers and auction them off. no chance to save your car. you lose, and still have to pay the auto loan off.... Personal property is siezed in drug offenses all the time, this harsh penalty could also be applied to drunk drivers.

that 30 days automatic jail time used in Korea, even before conviction in a court of law, would do a lot to deter the crime of drunk driving. You drive drunk, you spend 30 days 'sobering up' while your crime is prepared for the court docket. people can be legally detained and held 72 hours, not including weekends or holidays, even before a crime is charged. this is totally legal in america.

Even under existing legal practices, people just under the suspicion of driving drunk could be held for 3 days, then released without ever being charged with a crime, and this would be totally legal. if someone blows a BAC that is illegal, change the laws to give them 10,20, 30 days hold prior to deciding if charges would be filed.

This would deter drunk driving.

Why NOT make it more unaceptable to drive drunk in the US by significantly increasing the penalties?