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Originally posted by primal
Why don't you just send them a check everytime you speed then? Why make them go through the trouble of writing you a ticket when you already know you were speeding?
I'm just being sarcastic there. My real point is that most people realize that speeding tickets are just revenue streams for the goverment. It's a money game to the state. The whole reason why you can get out of the tickets in court is becuase it makes the state more money. They don't really care about safety or they'd concentrate on unsafe driving. It's been proven in study after study that higher highway speeds are not significantly more unsafe than the current speed limits. Just look at the autobahn. Americans are not required to demonstrate an adequete driving skillset to maintain a license. That's what really makes driving dangerous in america.
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Well, first of all, I wasn't on the highway, I was on backroads, which are winding and hilly, second I think using the autobahn as an example of safe driving speeds. Aren't they considering a speed limit on that because of the speeding related deaths?? Driving anywhere isn't safe...unless there are no buildings, no people, a governor on the engine that holds your speed to 25 MPH, and everything is perfectly flat and there is never any weather. So, I wouldn't say that driving is just dangerous in America.
Also, I'm not a fucking idiot, I know that speeding fines are a revenue stream. Just as my taxes are a revenue stream. There's no news there. You can get out of tickets in court, you just have to have your shit together. I've fought tickets before, but only when I was absolutely right. In those case the fine has been dismissed or reduced. I am a big proponent of doing what's right and admitting fault and taking responsibility for my actions. My point was, I'm not going to fight a ticket that I clearly deserved. I was going 65 in a 35, I saw the cop and hit the brakes but too late, he nabbed me at 57. To suggest that I send them a check every time I speed, whether sarcastic or not, is just a ridiculous thing to say. Clearly you misunderstood the point.