Cosine Effect, Math Wiazrds - (Speeding Ticket)

[Huw Powell]

> >   Well I was just reading some very interesting info on
> > http://www.copradar.com/preview/chapt4/ch4d1.html .
>
> <snip>
>
> >  Ah glorious math, or not?
> >
>
> Well, seems to me that this only _under_ estimates the speed. Meaning that
> if a car is traveling at 50mph, and the radar is off at an angle, the
> readout will be less, say 45mph.
>
> Not something you want to mention in court.

Actually, having read some of the free stuff at some motorists web site,
an intersting point does come up.  If the radar would have in Alex'
case, say, read 1/2 of his real speed, then he was going 140 mph...
which probalby would not have given the officer time to pick him up on
radar for long enough in the first place... also the estimated speed the
officer may have figured prior to actually tracking Alex with the gun
will be nowhere near this "real" speed.

Anyway, maybe we should all fight our tickets, etc., but making a hobby
of fighting tickets is like becoming an expert in the legal
ramifications of your alleged crime and trial conditions while studying
at the jailhouse library.

If the laws are wrong, unjust, just to raise money, etc., why not fight
them directly?  After all, most of the countries served by this list
have some form of representative democracy.  If enough people with clean
records turned up at the government's legislative offices maybe
something would be done.

I think it takes a lot more time to fight a ticket than the time lost by
driving slower.

There are also the problems of driving cars capable of going a *lot*
faster than any local limits, that handle better than the "average" car
the road is speed limited for, drivers "thinking" their reactions and
judgements are good enough to drive that fast on roads shared with other
cars and drivers of unknown ability, and that the most fun places to
speed are corners and hills, where your vision ahead is limited and
speed traps are easy to set up...

That said, if anyone ever manages to get the speed limit laws repealed,
I will certainly be one to enjoy the benefits at times!

Awaiting your voluminous replies...

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Huw Powell

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