The Federal Highway Administration quietly stripped bike lanes and other safety recommendations from a key list of best practices. Critics say those measures are proven to cut crashes and save lives.
Bike lanes, variable speed limits, speed safety cameras, appropriate speed limits for all road users, and road diets
Were all the things removed
our traffic fatalities by 100,000 inhabitants far exceeds that of many industrialized countries and puts the U.S. in the company of Chile and Costa Rica
If the camera clocks you at 43 then it’s faulty and you can appeal.
That’s a significant amount of time and effort I shouldn’t have to expend, especially if it involves actually going to traffic court.
Does it happen to you often?
Do you remember exactly what your speedometer said 12 days, 6 hours, 14 minutes, and 44 seconds ago? How do you plan to fight the ticket, tell them it’s too close to call and hope they agree?
What the fuck are you on about? You appeal tickets based on whether the camera recorded your speed correctly and if it had been calibrated properly. If it clocked you as doing 43 when you were doing 40 then one or the other is the case. Otherwise you were speeding and you deserve a ticket.
Your speedometer hits exactly the speed limit and never ticks over that, does it? Never? Never to pass, never with a little latent throttle when cresting a hill, never when a truck’s draft eases your drag, never when a speed limit gets reduced? Just a peachy perfect driver, eh? I assume you’ve actually calibrated your speedometer as well and aren’t trusting one of the most well-known inaccurate devices in the world, right?
You have no proof of your exact speed. “Cross my heart, judge, I have never exceeded the speed limit in my life” doesn’t work. There’s a reason speed readers must be calibrated and a tolerance zone must be excluded. You clearly don’t know the first thing about metrology.
By law, the speedometer error over 30 MPH has to be within -10% and +0%, so if it says I’m doing the speed limit, I’m doing between 36 and 40 MPH. In the UK speed cameras are set to go off at +10% over the speed limit, so there’s plenty of room for the needle temporarily going over a bit. Speed cameras have to be regularly calibrated to be able to be used to prosecute people. They are going to be more accurate than your speedometer but your speedometer should never be telling you you are not going as fast as you are. If it does then your car is defective and you should get it fixed. The camera should never go off if you are driving within +10% of the speed limit. It’s simply not a problem for people who drive within the speed limit in a roadworthy car.
I’m not a perfect driver and have been ticketed for speeding. I deserved it because I was speeding, and I knew I was speeding. I didn’t make out like I was the victim of some horrible injustice and then bitch and moan about it like a spoiled brat.
Wait so now 43 is OK because it’s within +10% of 40? You said being fined for 43 is the cad eof either actual speeding or a faulty camera. You did not include the part of “per my local regulation’s requirement of not issuing tickets until 10% over” before. Still, you said the alternate is actually speeding to which again, I ask, how do you think you’ll prove you remember not going 3mph faster than the posted limit at any point 12 days ago
No it’s not OK. The +10% thing is not a requirement to be prosecuted for speeding. 43 in a 40 zone is speeding. It’s not a difficult concept.
Speed cameras (and speed traps generally) are usually set up to catch cars that are just passing through town, not the locals. So fighting the fine could mean coming back from thousands of miles away. That’s why I let the sheriff escort me to an atm and handed over $300 in cash on my way home from college. To be fair I was speeding, and in a red car. Very young and stupid I was. Now I’m old enough to warn my kids to at least drive a stealthy color
It’s difficult to feel much sympathy when you were actually speeding. It’s literally illegal and dangerous and what the cameras are there to catch. Since I got older and stopped driving like a twat, I haven’t got any speeding tickets. I totally deserved the ones I got when I was younger because is was driving like a twat.