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A ticket for 53 in a 50? Either you were using a GPS speedo instead of the mechanical one in the car or you were actually going faster than you thought.
Here in the UK speedometers are required to read fast and all speed cameras have 5mph dead zone to account for errors in the reading so doing 53mph on the speedo wouldn’t even set off a camera. Obviously idk about the US but it seems a bit stupid not to have a system similar to the UK one.
Yeah that’s weirdly strict. In Florida, going 5mph over the limit means the only thing that cop can do is give you a “warning”. That effectively means it never happens because they aren’t going to waste their time on that (unless maybe you’re black or something like that).
In practice, most people go 10 over and cops don’t do anything about it unless it’s close to the end of the month and they haven’t met their quota yet.
Your system isn’t designed to extract as much capital as possible. It’s not the same.
My speedo is accurate I checked, but yes that is the argument I would use in court and honestly I would win. The point of the post is that I was actually breaking the law where no reasonable person would expect me to follow the law.
In Canada they actually cannot give you a ticket if you go x over the limit. The amount changes based on the max speed.