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10 Ways to Avoid Speeding Tickets
Autos – The worst possible thing you can do is combine all the no-no's in this list by driving a flashy car too fast, late at night when you're the only car on the road while looking like you just robbed a bank. If you do that, expect a ticket. And expect no mercy.
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Y'know? That's exactly what I was gonna say.
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Me too! My first thought before reading the article was isn't there just one way: don't speed. Yesterday we were driving to home improvement store and this guy in his SUV was flying by us and got stopped by a light. He took off again darting in and out of traffic and there was another light and then another. He was probably driving 65-70 on a 40 MPH road. Funny thing was we did the speed limit, made all the lights and both our vehicles pulled into the same parking lot at the same time. Maybe he thought he needed to lower his gas mileage...who knows? ;)
But if you need to drive over the speed limit for some reason, then get yourself a good radar blocker, not a radar detector because the highway patrol may still get you before you are able to react quick enough to slow down. I bought one several years ago and have not gotten a ticket even though I have met the highway patrol many, many times sitting on the highways with their handheld radars and I had been going 10 mph above the posted speed.
I believe they run down the tags before they pull anyone over.
A lot of times they just pull me over and give me warnings about running red lights,speeding and such. Yet I know people who do not keep their insurance and tags up. They are always getting pulled over for trival manners.
Yes and no.
If they're running radar, they'll pull someone over, then check the tags.
But if they're just "driving around on patrol", they'll run tags on anyone who catches their eye, in hopes that they'll be the one to make that big stolen car bust that night. Speeding, of course, is one way to catch their eye. And if they find outstanding warrants for something, no matter how trivial...
And I should know...I've done ride-alongs with cops, and this is how they operate, at least some of them.
I love the part about what kind of cars not to drive to avoid getting tickets, that's not true in my case. I've had Mustang GT's,a Thunderbird Super Coupe, and a Camaro, I was never pulled over in any of those and I drove like a maniac on our city streets with those cars, I do not speed on the X-ways. After those cars I needed something with better gas milage for work and drove a Cavalier and a Tempo and received a speeding ticket with both and did not drive them like I did my other cars. My husband got a ticket with his SUV on X-way near our home, for just a few miles over the limit of 70 MPH. So who knows why some police give tickets to certain people on some days and not others????????
Hey speed your head off, who the hell cares if you get a ticket. Just don't do it in my neighborhood where we actually care about our kids. Oh that's right, one for all and all for me because where I'm going is much more important than saving lives or saving gas. Glad you have a fat wallet..guzzle guzzle goes your gas. Stupid
well, what about "speeding" on a straight segment of perfectly level interstate, on which you are sharing 1 mile of road with 5 other cars (pretty typical in Kansas and other western states)
I don't see a point in following an arbitrary number on a sign when road conditions dictate that you can go much faster.
Conversely there are times when I will drive BELOW the speed limit because road conditions are sh**
I love to drive and have the experience to recognize what my car can handle and when a situation allows or prohibits a given speed.
By the way, those folks speeding through your residential area...would they by any chance be driving Japanese cars with a 3ft wing and fart muffler bolted on? In my experience "ricers" have the IQ of an ant and will drive "hammer down" in a traffic jam! I've proposed shooting their cars up, but the city council denied my request ; )
Further on the subject of road conditions:
In Germany many Autobahns (the original "Interstate" highway) are regulated by variable speed limits. They have electronic signs that are controlled by police based on traffic data (cameras or pressure sensors)
If the road is largely empty they have a high limit, or no limit at all. When traffic gets dense or road conditions are crap (rain, sleet, etc.) they will reduce the limit from the control post.
If there is a traffic jam (Stau in German) they will progressively reduce the limit several kilometers before the jam in order to prepare drivers for a nasty situation.
Speeding doesn't cause accidents. People traveling at much different speeds, cutting in and out of lanes, weaving causes accidents. Years ago when a couple of midwestern states decided to raise the speed limit to 65 from 55 (the first to do so) the Dept of Highway Safety predicted dire consequences, a 10-15% increase in accidents and deaths, and did a lot of publicizing this fact. One year after the increase in speed, the results were a 15% DECREASE in accidents on those roads. More cars were going at a similar speed, many less were weaving. If everyone went 80 miles an hour and just followed along, that would be safe. If some go 50, others 55, others 60 etc, you have a much greater chance of an accident with constant braking, passing.
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Rule 1 should simply be, "Don't speed." Follow that one and you are safe.
Now, if you elect to ignore rule 1, rule 2-11 above MIGHT get you through a time or two, but they will also fail you all too often.
As far as rules 2-11 go, the best protection against a speeding ticket is probably rule 3: "Try to stay in the middle of the pack. If you're the lead car, logic says you'll be the first car to run past any radar trap up ahead. And if you're the last car, you'll be the one the police officer rolls up behind. That means the safest place is in the middle -- just like a gazelle fleeing a hungry lion by seeking safety in the middle of the herd."
Problem is it might save you a ticket but cost you your life. Rule 1 of defensive driving is, if possible, stay out of the pack and on an outside lane with a drivable shoulder so if some Kimakaze driver decides he wants to occupy the exact space your car is currently in, you have someplace to go to escape the loonatic.
Bull. I make it a point to speed, each and every day. That's hundreds of offenses every year, all of them deliberate. Since 1986, I've gotten 3 speeding tickets:
One for going 62 in a 55. This was in the years of the 55 mph speed limit. The speed limit on that same stretch of road is now 65.
One for going 52 in a 35. This was bogus, I'd just pulled out of a driveway and accellerated to match traffic. My supervisor (who is a Sunday school teacher) was outraged, and pointed out to me several times that "That police officer was lying!"
One for going 35 in a very poorly marked 20 mph school zone. Technically, there is no school nearby, but that's irrelevant, since legally that stretch of road is a school zone.
That's it. In over 20 years, and a minimum of over 7000 speeding violations, I've gotten 3 whole tickets, at least one of which I definitely didn't deserve.
Oh, and thanks to the author for collecting many of my secrets in one article.
Our speed laws are meant to save lives. Deliberate disregard for the lives of others is not an admirable trait in my eyes, even if you have so far gotten away with it.
Wrong. Our speed laws are meant to generate revenue. Ask any traffic engineer how speed limits are set.
Consider...I've sped THOUSANDS of times, and how many speed-related accidents have I been involved in? Even just minor fender-benders? Exactly zero.
Now, of course it is possible to speed dangerously, so much so that you cause accidents. But if you follow the guidelines in this article, your chances of causing an accident are not much different than if you tried to obey the speed limit, and in some circumstances, they are LESS than if you tried to obey the speed limit.
For example, if the speed limit is 50, and everyone around you is driving 60 or faster, speed up for safety's sake!
It's also about government control and also because the highways including the interstates are rotten in the U.S. as compared to the highways in Europe. I drove 7500 kilometers in Europe at contant speeds of 130 mph on the Autobahn and I never felt safer in my life on the roads. The European drivers are much better driver than the Americans. They never drive in the fast lane unless they are passing and they flash their headlights when they are going to pass.
You're right, laws are made to save lives. Every time a person breaks a traffic law, they put another person's loved ones in danger. High speed crashes take lives. What happened to self imposed citizen responsibility in this country?
Do these "authors" get paid for writing this crap? Who the hell would waste print space on this drivel?
Avoiding speeding tickets means: Drive the speed of traffic and don't be the fastest vehicle on the road, don't go more than 5 over in town or 10 on freeways, and use your damn cruise control to keep from accidentally lead-footing it or gaining speed going downhill (also helps save on gas).
That's it. Pretty friggin' simple. Where's my check from aol? lol
I think this list makes more sense if you would like to speed and still not get any tickets. Hence rule 1 can't really be don't speed, because that would basically defeat the purpose of the article.
Just responding to the Headline the author chose. "10 Ways to Avoid Speeding Tickets". Given that topic, rule 1 should be don't speed.
I am in complete agreement ET.