GO TO THE TRACK!!!!!!!

200~350 is WAAAAAAAAAY cheaper than the 600+ you will spend on a lawyer. I do it once twice a month when I can, and honestly. I gave my v1 away because I now drive like an old man.

 

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Nope....you guys are wrong.

He got a ticket because he got caught. That's the first parameter.

Because:

There are plenty of people who break the law and don't get caught.

There are plenty of people who get caught and don't get a ticket.

There are plenty of places were the speed limit is clearly lower than it needs to be. Regulators aren't perfect.

Given all that, going 23 mph over the speed limit is asking to get caught.

 

i drive my s2000 like a grandmother most of the time...i often get lost in thought and notice my speed is decreasing until im down to 45 in a 65....yea..idk

i still however have 5 pts on my license from my accord days( super speeders and reckless driving ) the accord was highly modified and i loved getting the most out of it....however, i was always getting busted whenever it was Georgia Heat or a speed trap set up...this has caused my s2000 insurance to be around $230 a month...i just bite the bullet and pay it and have been paying it..

i wont be down to 0 points until January 2019...ouch indeed..

if you wanna open up, just be like me, do it in spurts now and then once in a while...the sensitivity to vtec due to not experiencing it for a long time will cause you to need a change of drawers

 

My rules that have kept me ticket free for many years;

1. Get a good detector.

-Beltronics/Escort (same brand) or a Valentine. A cheap detector is false security. I have a Beltronics and it's never failed me. If you search around,
you can find some good deals (got mine from Woot).

-Mount it properly. I've seen people just set their detectors on the dash. It needs to be high, and have a clear line of sight (front and rear). I use
visor mount.

2. Don't be the lone speeder.

-I let someone else take the risk and forge a path for me. I especially look for "profile-able" cars. By that, I mean cars that stand out to cops
(flashy sports cars, luxury cars, donks, etc.).

-If you find a speeding semi, you're gold!

3. Pay attention to traffic.

-Maybe this doesn't happen much in other areas, but there are still people willing to warn you of cops ahead (with a flash of their lights).

-If traffic slows ahead, slow down with them (especially semi trucks). It never fails that I'll be in my s, get a radar warning, hard brake, and cars
Will go flying past me. They seem unconcerned that the speeding sports car just randomly dropped it's speed by 15mph......

4. Learn the speed trap areas and slow down (regardless of what your radar detector is telling you).


5. Don't speed in neighborhoods....it's just a douche thing to do.



Nothing really groundbreaking, but it seems to keep me safe.

 

For what its worth - maybe nothing - my take on this is that speeding, (meaning over the well known actual speed limit in your area), is bad on a whole host of fronts not the least of which is that it gives sports car enthusiasts a bad name and draws negative attention to us.

 

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Nope....you guys are wrong.

He got a ticket because he got caught. That's the first parameter.


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No. He got a ticket because he broke the law. Sure lots of people don't get caught breaking the law, but if he was driving the speed limit he wouldn't have received a ticket.

Law enforcement will tell you the same thing. Don't want to attract police attention? Don't break the law. Simple as 1+1.

 

On the subject of detectors, I was about to go with an Escort 8500xi but decided to go with a Uniden DFR6 (new 850) and it is fantastic. I got mine for around $210 and it was well worth the money, great range.

 

Hmmmm.....didn't realize Uniden was still around.

 

I follow the same rules...with the exception that I haven't owned a detector in over 25 years. My last speeding ticket was 8 years ago on a motorcycle when I didn't follow #2 above. Fortunately, I had a reasonable officer who let me go with an obstructed plate ticket instead of the speeding violation.

 

Its actually not that simple. It is that simple for virtually any other law, including most other traffic laws. But exceeding the speed limit is something virtually 100% of driving citizens do on a virtually daily basis.

Its a broken system.

One problem is the 'travel speed' is the limit speed. They tell you in drivers ed to speed up to pass. How can you do that if you are already supposed to be going the limit speed? It may not have been the original intention, but its become the defacto understanding that the standard travel speed is whatever the posted limit is. That is not a system that can ever work.

So its a broken system, everybody breaks this one law, sometimes people get caught breaking it. Sometimes its because they were flagrantly breaking it, sometimes its because they broke in a place and time where revenue was being collected.

The penalty for breaking a law is supposed to discourage people from breaking it. That isn't true for speed limits. Its a broken system in many ways.