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American Drivers Think Speeding Is Okay Because Everyone Else Is Doing It (www.jalopnik.com)
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What's a little extra 5 or 10 mph on the clock?

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[–] 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It’s because it is never enforced anymore.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It's worse than that. If everyone speeds all the time, cops have a valid reason to pull over and harass anyone they choose, on the pretext of speeding. You'll never guess what demographic gets a disproportionate amount of police attention despite not speeding (or committing other traffic violations) significantly more than average.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    So they set up speed camera(that is not Flock or mass surveillance) and people yell about constitutional right.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    It's pretty much codified. 9 mph over means pretty much nothing. If you are a little over that? Everyone knows the courts will probably knock it down to 9 over just by asking.

    As another comment points out, it's works for being selectively enforced. Almost every car on the road can be pulled over. Even if you are going the speed limit, you might get pulled over for impeding traffic.

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