Is driving a sin?

[Titanites]

On a recent question as to whether speeding is a sin, the following response was posted:

peeding can indeed be grave matter if it endangers the safety of you or anyone else. When done with full knowledge and full and free consent of the will, a grave matter becomes a mortal sin (source).

Driving is one of the riskiest of our daily activities, and every time we enter the road we are endangering our safety, and doing it with full knowledge and free consent of the will. By using the logic provided to the speeding question, wouldn’t driving itself be a mortal sin?

 

[Michelle_Arnold]

At the expense of invoking a tired cliche, you are mixing apples and oranges. Driving is a neutral activity that involves certain risks, but that society makes as safe as possible by creating rules to govern how people engage in it. One of those rules is that drivers must obey the posted speed limit. Deliberately breaking that rule, which is imposed in order to do what is possible to make driving less risky, can be grave matter. When a grave matter is done with full knowledge and full and free consent of the will, it becomes a mortal sin.