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How to deal with speeders?

How to deal with speeders?

  • they should be caught by radar traps and then informed about their fine by letter

  • they should be arrested on the spot

  • they should be hunted down - and shot whenever possible

  • other

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How to deal with speeders?

There are various possibilities.
 
What goes for speeding then would apply to other minor traffic infractions.
 
2 out of 3 say: other

But - what other ways?
 
Rumpel said:
How to deal with speeders?

There are various possibilities.
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Speeding has increased since Covid and the shutting down of everything to preventing police to do their jobs. I drive a semi truck and have noticed the great increase of the speed of four wheelers....see many driving 80 to 90 mph on average, then the stupid ones over 100.....highly increased numbers of people driving this fast. I increase the following distance because of these type of drivers and have noticed an increase in accidents on the hwys.

There simply needs to be more enforcement of the speed limits. The writing of these high speed tickets and the effects upon their insurance policies will cause many to slow down, return to civility and simple common sense.
 
Rumpel said:
2 out of 3 say: other

But - what other ways?
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...the regular way...like, if someone is speeding, the cops can pull them over and write a ticket?

Automated speeding tickets sent to the person in whose name a vehicle is registered, rather than specifically the driver, seems to offend our fundamental rights. I mean, we have a right to face our accuser, and there is no accuser when it's a machine. Also, people are allowed to drive other people's cars, and ticketing the person who wasn't driving is a false accusation.
 
Other. Fixed speed limits shouldn't exist in the first place. Speeding should be subjective based on road and traffic conditions.
 
Increasing fines/penalties and then a loss of license. Much the same as drunk driving.
 
Enough people have radar detectors that the traps become somewhat useless, but if the states and cities really wanted people to
slow down, you use the radar detectors against the speeders.
It would work like this. If someone is driving say 15 mph above the speed limit, they are likely doing so because they have a radar detector.
When their alarm goes off they slow down, but so do most of the cars around them, I mean why is this guy breaking?
States and cities could deploy units on signs that send out radar pulses, but not all the time, and in a semirandom pattern.
One day it looks like a speed trap is ahead in one area, another day it is somewhere else, some days it really is a speed trap.
By rotating the virtual speed traps around the city, or along the highway, they cause a general slowdown.
The problem is that States and Cities get a lot of income from citations, and will not give that up.
 
longview said:
Enough people have radar detectors that the traps become somewhat useless, but if the states and cities really wanted people to
slow down, you use the radar detectors against the speeders.
It would work like this. If someone is driving say 15 mph above the speed limit, they are likely doing so because they have a radar detector.
When their alarm goes off they slow down, but so do most of the cars around them, I mean why is this guy breaking?
States and cities could deploy units on signs that send out radar pulses, but not all the time, and in a semirandom pattern.
One day it looks like a speed trap is ahead in one area, another day it is somewhere else, some days it really is a speed trap.
By rotating the virtual speed traps around the city, or along the highway, they cause a general slowdown.
The problem is that States and Cities get a lot of income from citations, and will not give that up.
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Or how about the lack of productivity the states and cities lose from people sitting in their cars instead of their desks?
 
Crovax said:
Or how about the lack of productivity the states and cities lose from people sitting in their cars instead of their desks?
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Well those police could be better utilized in other places.
 
MrNiceGuy said:
...the regular way...like, if someone is speeding, the cops can pull them over and write a ticket?

Automated speeding tickets sent to the person in whose name a vehicle is registered, rather than specifically the driver, seems to offend our fundamental rights. I mean, we have a right to face our accuser, and there is no accuser when it's a machine. Also, people are allowed to drive other people's cars, and ticketing the person who wasn't driving is a false accusation.
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the photograph shows the driver and the numberplate.
If somebody else is the driver - other than the owner - than the owner must tell the police who exactly was the driver.
 
longview said:
Well those police could be better utilized in other places.
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Very much so!
And then fewer people would be "shot while trying to flee" - which sounds eeriely like the standard formula when people got killed in concentration camps.
 
Most of the time speeding isn't a problem. It is those who use the steering wheel instead of the brake who are most often the problem.
 
Rumpel said:
the photograph shows the driver and the numberplate.
If somebody else is the driver - other than the owner - than the owner must tell the police who exactly was the driver.
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No they mustn't. 5th amendment. So what if they don't? Or the driver has a mask on when they speed because they know it's only camera enforcement?
 
Rumpel said:
How to deal with speeders?

There are various possibilities.
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Here in Wichita KS the cops are short handed and usually just ignore them unless there are specific complaints. Traffic is turning into the wild west.
 
molten_dragon said:
Other. Fixed speed limits shouldn't exist in the first place. Speeding should be subjective based on road and traffic conditions.
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Engineers actually put a lot of energy into determining the safe speed limit for specific roads and you're supposed to use your own judgement and slow down if conditions deteriorate.
 
Gateman_Wen said:
Here in Wichita KS the cops are short handed and usually just ignore them unless there are specific complaints. Traffic is turning into the wild west.
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Meanwhile in Arkansas:






 
In 2009 I rented a car and drove all over northern Spain, and no one was speeding.
The rental company warned me against speeding, and that the highway patrol would expect the fine to be paid in cash on the spot.
If you did not have cash, they would take you to an ATM.
Seemed a bit excessive, but almost no one was driving above the posted speed.
The week before, we have driven 1000 km in Italy, and there the speed limit seemed to be just a suggestion.
 
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