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That's really the best way to fight back! The city reacted quickly before being murdered and ended the camera speed ticketing immediately. A judge from the area helped with that by being honest and decrying the system they put in place as "a money grab."
The speed limit is still under-posted however.
They raised sales tax in CA Jan 1. People have "boycotted" purchases, and revenues for the state are down this year despite the .25% increase. CA has reacted by raising gas tax 3 cents per gallon July 1, which is even harder to avoid.
Also, CA is a leader in the let's tax the internet crowd.
Your answer when you click on this.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/5RAaW_1FzYg?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showi- nfo=0
All of the issues in CA and still no mass exodus. No room to the north, so go east, please :shades:
Our tax rate vs. GPD is # 30 out of the 33 countries forming the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (Europe, Canada, Australia, NZ, Japan, Korea, Mexico, etc.).
On foot saw two dumb SUV drivers - one a woman in a Lexus LX who tried to take a free right turn in front of an oncoming left turn lane who had green. Traverse approaching her honked, she let up and then started going again (!), Traverse honked again, I think to protect the scooter behind it, and the halfwit in the LX honked back. Kid in the passenger seat gave me a look like "I don't know her".
And another woman in an Acadia, phone to her ear, crowds a green signaled crosswalk with several pedestrians in it. Time for SUV license endorsement requirements, they make a demographic who too often lacks logic and accountability become even worse.
Obviously afraid that one of "those" people will rear end them while they are yakking on their smart phone.
Besides, I was behind him, also stopped.
Funny, once we rounded the corner, he crawled, I passed on the right, I made the next light, he didn't.
Can you even give an example of a high speed crash other than a head-on collision that doesn't involve some form of inattention (like driving into a brick wall?).
I believe CA Cal Trans spending on roadways is in the top 5 of 50 States but our quality of roads is bottom 5 of 50.
The problem is getting our monies worth, not that we aren't paying anything for it!!!!!
Other errors include incorrect time/distance/speed calculation, braking in a high speed turn, hydro-planing, mechanical failures.
For the SUVs, the laws of physics + iffy engineering can be at play, too.
I'd still like to see mass or size based license endorsements.
i think it's more than inattention, I really do.
If you are driving an SUV you should be aware it doesn't handle like a 911.
If you are driving an SUV you should know what the limits of its handling abilities are.
That way drivers won't try to do the impossible. Braking in a high speed turn isn't necessarily an error (hard braking probably, but some braking might increase forward traction reduce under-steer).
It's funny that often the so-called "speeders" I see are in SUV's that take much longer to stop from higher speeds than the 3,300 pound R8's I rarely see.
One can respond to one's feelings with consideration or the opposite - with *inconsideration* as we so often see described here, or espoused here.
for example, some inconsiderate drivers respond by deciding whether richy rich driver's wealth was 'earned' or not - and then they elect candidates who help the govt take away more and more of richy rich's wealth/income/anything!
please establish a forum where folks can consult with you and the other arbiters of whether wealth/cars/home/whatever was "earned' or not. I'll be the first to post there - want to find out for sure whether I deserved what i used to have, and what I've still got before its all taxed&epreciated away.
long live the 1% ! and as for us-all 53-percenters, let's not let the 47-percenters get us down, nor any of the self-hating 53% either.
drive considerate of everything about the other driver/car: skill/capability/income-level/kids/dogs/whatever!
cheers !
Finn's speed fine is a bit rich (BBC)
170,000 Euros is a lot of sausage.
As if elections change any of it, puhlease :P
Although in that linked case, it does seem a bit much for a 40kph violation - would need to know circumstances. Empty road etc.
indeed there is an emotional reaction since we are human drivers - especially if current drivers cause reaction to previous incident.
this happened to me also through friends' tragedies a couple decades ago.
best wishes for safety out there folks.
safety on road is the really top #1 thing to be considerate about out there, each according to one's ability to consider !
sincerely, preacher elias
(preachin to the choir? ok, maybe there's just 1 choir member out there, the smallest choir ever! ) .
She's balancing the scales of truth and fairness, and doesn't seem to have any issue with the fairness of our progressive tax code. So I think an argument can be made for a sliding scale fine structure.
Rules are meant to be broken--that's why they put the rules in place initially. If there was no crime in that area, there would be no rule.
BAD rules are completely ignored by everyone and then cease to exist.
GOOD rules generally improve the situation
MOST rules seem to deliver a mixed bag of results.
However, since the death penalty doesn't seem to be all that much of a deterrent, I'm not sure stiff fines will deter chronic speeders who are rich...
or perhaps to some people being broke is worse than being dead? :P
On the left arrow (thankfully others came up in the left turn lane to trigger it) the Exploder made his left turn, and my lane edged up accordingly, so I was then alongside a Dodge Durango. The getaway was a bit slow in both lanes when the light turned green. I might have had a nose on the Durango, but not much room in front of me because the car ahead of me let the first right-lane vehicle merge in front of him. As soon as that happened, the guy in the Durango gassed it up just enough to pull clear of my front bumper, and then helped himself to the spot in front of me... NO SIGNAL... ON THE BRAKES! I laid on the horn, braked, and cheated over into the center-left-turn (aka suicide) lane. And then he brake-checked me again!
Of course, in my current post-bike-wreck condition, my sole option had he chosen to escalate things would have been to trick him into getting out of his vehicle, and then bailing at a high rate of speed, running him over if necessary.
Then get behind a woman I won't describe in an Accord going about 15-20 in a 30, who brakes, then signals, then gets into a turn lane. Don't tip that thing over!
Then on another big arterial, posted at 35 with a center turn lane. I am going the speed limit, left lane, a lifted F150 pulls out of a parking lot to my left and heads toward the center lane - which is fine as it is legal to pull out and wait to merge here. But, he doesn't wait, he just cuts over toward me, and fast. I honk, and he swerves back. I could see a kid in the passenger seat pointing out the car (me) he almost hit. After I pass and he merges, he drives pretty fast, just to get stuck in a turn lane backup. Time for license endorsements for these vehicles.
To the dopes on the road here, I also think my car looks like a beige Corolla or something - invisible. Is a bright white car with a black top and bight LED running lights that hard to see?
I got some joy yesterday coming home from work when someone did the opposite of dawdling from a stoplight. At a two lane left turn at a signaled intersection, when the light turned green, I was in the inside lane and accelerated briskly to say the least (that's my style). I was impressively passed by the 911 to my right taking the outside 90 degree turn left before the intersection was even completed by me.
Now that is how you accelerate and turn!
Something else irksome is on city streets, where local "drivers" floor it off the line, but run out of steam around 30-35, even if the limit is higher.
Here, they get to 15mph, then slow down to 10mph... before taking the next half-mile to get up to 35mph.
Had a pretty easy commute today, didn't see anything worse than a person who I let change lanes in front of me then dawdle at a crawl. Noticed the usual tons of phone holders while I was on foot though. I suppose why not, no enforcement to be seen.
Otherwise, pretty easy going here the last couple days, other than inherent slowness. Took a ~200 mile highway drive yesterday, few LLCs, a few more MLCs, and a Canadian bus that was going 70mph in a 60.
On the way up my radar detector goes off and sure enough there's a CHP guy standing up outside and alongside his car with a big radar gun just after an upper ridge on the downhill slope.
This 125 freeway section is the least congested freeway in San Diego County, and hence, the 65 MPH speed limit is absurdly low.
20 minutes later, I'm on my way back down 125 South, and I tell my Wife no way he's in the same spot as he wouldn't waste 20 minutes generating revenue. My radar detector goes off, I'm about to eat my words, but then he's on the other side of the freeway now doing the same thing.
This time he's more visible because it's a long downhill stretch on the other side. Radar detector saw him before we could see each other though. I'm sure he just ticketed someone on the other side, took the next off ramp to turn around and set up camp.
On the freeway which needs the least amount of enforcement in all of San Diego County.......
One could say the same thing though about driving faster than the "fast limit" just because someone wants to do it.
I can go from LA to NY at 100 MPH in the fast lane and never impede your progress to the right lane and the SL you adhere to + or - 1 MPH. :P
If you get in the left lane you will indeed impede my progress.