butthole of the day 3538

gpsman

The problem comes up in that there's officers who aren't that honest, and will write someone a ticket for 57 in a 55 where there's no proof the officer didn't hit them with radar 200 feet before the SL change instead of after the sign.

I don't live in San Luis Obispo, and I'm not moving up there to take on their speeding ticket trickery. I just don't go there, and don't spend my money there.

Are you illiterate? My problem is with officers admitting there's leeway in the enforcement, and then stating that anything over the magic number on a sign is so much more dangerous than going at or below the magic number. If all speed limits were based on engineering studies and enforced as a realistic limit, it becomes a heluva lot less of a magic number.

Right now the driver knows that the limit is really just a suggestion, so they aren't concerned about violating it. Since it's below what they expect, they exceed it, and because so many people exceed it, the officers can't enforce it.

Themself, no most probably don't. Many have a spouse, or the guy at the local oil change place worry about many of those issues. With something that isn't either a clbuttic or a beater most of those things aren't going to be an issue if they're checked every month or so.

Who says people will go 85+ mph? That's not an appropriate speed for my car on most roads, even freeways. I'd just like to be able to go the 70-75 mph the road was engineered for and traffic is already going without being a criminal.

It would also help eliminate the dangerous LLBing that's quite common on California freeways. The LLB drivers no longer would be "justified" in creating a rolling roadblock because they're too self-centered to share the road.

Dave