A motorcycle rider in Melbourne, Australia was fined by a speed camera while he was in the middle of taking evasive action to avoid hitting a car that had pulled out in front of him. He took it to court, and the judge dismissed the fine, saying that if the motorcycle rider had not broken the speed limit in an attempt to avoid the car that failed to give way, then chances are he would've had an accident. The speed camera photo showed part of the car that had pulled out.
Just yesterday on my motorbike, I was moving at the speed limit, a car up ahead merged onto the road, I started to pbutt him and he began to change into my lane without indicating. In the split second I had to decide on what evasive action to take, I decided to speed up, I missed hitting the car by maybe a foot. Hitting the brakes *may* have been a form of successful evasive action in this case, but I know that speeding up and breaking the speed limit definitely worked.
Sometimes speeding up is a viable form of evasive action to take when another driver makes a mistake and is about to hit you. GPS speed limiting devices will remove that form of possible evasive action if a driver is cruising at their limited speed.
SL.
