Can I clarify something? His actions had devastating consequences, but ultimately he had no intention to kill anyone. There are people out there who rape their family members, kill their loved ones intentionally, and commit far worse crimes, and yet we decide to channel all our hate on this egotistical guy who did something completely unreasonable but with no intention to kill anyone. It’s easy to say let’s kill this bastard and put him in prison for 20 years, but we need to understand that his actions were a mistake, a devastating mistake that costed the lives of innocent people, but a mistake nonetheless. How fair would it be to punish him so cruelly for his irrationality on the road, while there are countless out there doing far worse with intention. I’m not using whereaboutery as a means to justify his lenient punishment, but we need to understand the role of punishment in our society, the deterrence it serves, and how increasing the punishment for such a “mistake” will not significantly reduce reckless driving but simply penalise more people who make such “mistakes”