mjr wrote:meic wrote:Two million drivers are caught speeding per year.
I havent had a ticket since the 1980s but it could happen to me tomorrow if I was driving somewhere new or they changed the limit on a regular route.
Some drivers get a ticket because they are always speeding.
Some drivers obey the law to the best of their ability and get unlucky
Some drivers obey the law to the best of their ability and stay lucky.
The only ones immune from getting a ticket are those who dont drive.
I feel that's being a speeding apologist. The only good excuse which comes to mind is if it's a non-default limit (such as 40 or 20 on a single carriageway, or 30 on an unlit one), the road looked safe to travel more quickly and some limit signs were missing or obscured - but in those cases, the ticket should be rescinded anyway. Otherwise, take the punishment and don't try to suggest that it's socially acceptable because everyone does it - they don't, as you can see from how few get tickets.
If you know that you are at risk of speeding, then why haven't you taken steps to reduce it? I realised that the speedo in my latest car is badly-designed and difficult to read fast enough for modern roads, so I added a head-up display that projects the speed translucently low onto the road ahead and assists me in obeying the law. It was a bonus that I could switch it to km/h for easier legal driving abroad.
I havent had a ticket (or any other speeding related contact with the Police) for three decades, even though I spent quite a lot of those decades as a delivery driver and dispatch rider.
So I clearly have taken very effective steps to avoid the risk of speeding, it is absolutely stupid to imply that I havent.
Just as your feeling that acknowledging that any driver can have made a mistake and committed speeding is in some way apologising for it, it is merely stating a fact.
I havent made a mistake and been caught, I am certainly not apologising for the speeding convictions
which I havent had when I point out that others who endeavour to drive with as much good intent as I do may still have ended up getting a ticket because they were unlucky enough to have missed something, despite their efforts.
Any body who claims they are not equally fallible as such a person who got caught, or me who hasnt been caught (but admits it is a possibility) is talking rubbish.
Otherwise, take the punishment and don't try to suggest that it's socially acceptable because everyone does it
Well here is more garbage, what punishment? I havent even been accused
by anybody who knows anything only by some forum poster making stuff up for no valid reason.
No way was I claiming it was socially acceptable to speed because everybody does it, I was merely claiming that one speeding ticket doesnt prove that somebody is always doing it.
they don't, as you can see from how few get tickets.
Yes, I AM one of those who doesnt get tickets. It will probably remain that way because I dont go around speeding but you never know, it is human to err.