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Re: NMA STUDY
In <3v9env$i9i@news-e1a.megaweb.com> kennystar@megaweb.com (KENNY MORSE) writes:
>Was the key word there RECENTLY??? The majority of the
>California driving public HAS gotten traffic tickets. My students
>are absolutely, positively a cross sections of ALL OF US.
I have a hypothesis that I would like to see investigated. My driving
experience in California is in the SF Bay Area only. The hypothesis
is:
Speeding tickets on highways are given for these behaviors:
tailgating, rapid lane changing, and going much faster than the
flow of traffic.
Note that speed of motorist relative to speed limit doesn't occur in
the list above. As a very alert motorist, I always watch police cars
and see whom they stop -- and I have never seen anybody being stopped
for merely driving at a high speed. I occasionally ride as a passenger
with people who complain about having received a speeding tickets when
'everybody else was going just as fast', and invariably their driving
style includes the behaviors I listed above. (Note: On city streets
school zone speed limits tend to be strictly enforced, so I will limit
my hypothesis to highways, i.e., either limited-access highways or
roads with reasonably high speed limits and no school zones.)
In other words, speeding tickets here in given primarily for reckless
or unsafe driving, *not* for speeding.
If this is true, then I am very happy with the unwritten rules followed
by the traffic police on the highways.
--
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
"please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>
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