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Old 11-12-2007, 07:54 AM   #26
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I think traffic cops in general are enforcing a sham. If the law makers were serious about controlling speed they'd install speed sensing cameras like they have in Austria. No one speeds, less accidents and no need to pay a cop to ride around randomly poping "speeders". But this America and I firmly believe that the highway cops are going to go after the cars with drivers who 1-have the means to pay and 2-will in fact pay up at some point.
20 cars will travel 10 miles over the limit but they will pinch the guy in the German car and let the 15 Minivans, Toyotas and Corollas slide.

And every cop that has ever pulled me over has ALWAYS had an attitude about
my "expensive" car and seemed annoyed that a young person was driving it.
One cop not realizing that I was on DOT R-Comps said (in a know it all tone) "your tires are worn badly, I could easily impound your car but I'm going to do you a favor and give you these other tickets instead, if you can afford to buy a nice car then you can afford new tires for it". I wasn't about to explain to him that my "worn out tires" had better grip than 99% of the cars he'd pulled over that day, I just shut my mouth happy I escaped points and said yes sir, absolutely sir, will do sir. Most highway cops hate being argued with.
Anyhoo the way we enforce the speed laws is malarkey. If they were truly interested in making the roads safer and not just raising revenue, in addition to the speed cameras, they would pull people over for driving too slow in the passing lane. Congestion in this lane leads to stacking up of the other lanes, which in turn leads to the biggest problem: dangerous weaving. A slow passing lane also creates danger when drivers start doing parallels three or four abreast. Then you've got all the cars behind hitting their brakes at 70mph. That's how you get chain reaction accidents. The way to avoid this is for the police to ensure that the passing lane "pressure valve" is always open and going faster than the other lanes.
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