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Originally Posted by Mydivorcegift
Horseshit.
Determined "safe" by who?
Again (and this will get angry bird ruffled up again)....
The safest road is the autobahn. I don't complain about the "traffic laws". I get stopped I pay the ticket. I fully understand and accept the consequences for my actions. Just got one in GA in May....I'm a super speeder. $450....hell on the ticket in the comments it said "driver admitted he was speeding"...and I did.
But speeding tickets are nothing more than revenue generators and really don't serve any purpose other than that.
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A little (and I do mean little) research will help you determine how speed limits are set.
http://www.motorists.org/speed-limit...setting-limits
Are there speed traps? Sure. We had one near the GM Tech Center where on Mound Rd. the speed limit went from 45 to 35 for a short stretch and the LEOs would just sit in the CHURCH PARKING LOT (lol) and pull people over that didn't see the sign and reduce speed for that 100 yards. Heck they didn't even ask for license or registration. Just handed out tickets. Absolutely money generation on that one.
Does your local government gain revenue from tickets? You bet. And one way to look at is just another tax to put money in the budget.
But to state a speed limit does nothing more than generate revenue? Seriously? You think that because YOU determine it's safe you can run 80 in a subdivision which the studies would indicate should be 20 or 25? You are that good and that capable to avoid a child running in the street or a car that IS NOT watching for you to be going 80 suddenly back out of there driveways? There are very good reasons for most speed limits and why they are set. You may not agree, but it isn't randomly done and isn't done by sitting down and seeing how much money they can get.
This conversation is getting sillier and sillier.
I've been ticketed a few times. Challenged one and had it reduced because, in this case the officer could not have possibly determined my speed. Yep spun my tires, he saw it from 3 cars back in the intersection. Guilty. But he added speeding which I challenged because I wasn't. I've been let off many more times than ticketed. Was actually let off 2 times in a 12 hour stretch driving a Corvette. First stop was in Kentucky on I75 and the other once I got home. Cops aren't just running around trying to get money from you. You just happened to give them the opportunity.
So it isn't just about the money.
I also doubt the officer was "hiding". More likely, like most LEOs he was pulled off the to the side where you couldn't see him.
You were speeding. Quit trying to somehow make yourself right. Pay your ticket and move on with life.
And by the way, the next level argument using everyone's logic here is that STOP signs and RED LIGHTS don't actually mean stop. They too are just revenue generation ideas. LOL
Oh and for that Autobahn? It's pretty well regulated. And if get in an accident you are more than likely dead. Those statistics you can also confirm............with a little research.