Answering this question makes it easy for the cop to write it in his report that you admitted guilt.
I know someone who said he has no idea what his speed was. When the cop was pressing harder and harder to get him to accept he asked “do you have a calibrated speed gun in your car”. The cop admitted he didn’t and the guy said “this conversation is over then”, and the cop let him drive off.
Someone else posted these recently. Always a good reminder:
They get posted in nearly every one of these discussions.
As they should!
I felt like I was being a giant asshole but I got off the same way. Cop was trying to make me admit to driving fast. I said I wasn’t and asked what they clocked me at. They said they didn’t get me with the radar gun. I said “ok,” and just stared at her.
One time a cop lied that he caught be going 94 in a 65. I said “I was not going 94. I’ve never gone 94 in my life.” And he said “Are you saying that wasn’t you?” “I don’t know what you recorded but I wasn’t going 94.” So he goes and sits in his car for a while pretending to check his tapes, then comes back and says “You are definitely the one I recorded.” Conveniently ignoring what I actually said.
Eventually he dropped the speed he was claiming down to like 70 and my dumbass then-21 year old self was like “Oh OK, yeah I was totally going 70, just not 94.” and he handed me a ticket.
I’m still mad about it.
I think that the way to settle a dispute like this isn’t by shouting over the cop. Is it satisfying? I’m sure. Good idea? Never.
It’s on them to prove the speeding happened, and if they can’t back it up in court, it’s a quick dismiss.
“Obviously not fast enough since you caught up with me”
I used to watch this British show called Police Interceptors. The narrator loved talking about how the officers drive Subaru Imprezas and Mitsubishi Evo 9s/10s, and that their top speed is 155mph. My thought was always “So get a car that goes faster than 155, got it”
I dont even need a damned car lol
The UK did have an issue with a lotus Carlton that did a bit more than that. I think the cop cars were slower at the time as well.
Fantastic. I watched a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Johnny Knoxville called The Last Stand (loved it, I consider it a hidden gem) and their purpose was to stop a supercar that even a chopper couldn’t follow
The only good answer is “to my knowledge I was driving within the limit”.
If you say “yes” and were speeding you’ve just admitted you knew you were speeding, if you say “no” you’ve just admitted you weren’t keeping track of your speed.
“I invoke my 4th and 5th amendment rights” is a much better idea.
As long as you’re white, otherwise it will be escalating
It might surprise you to learn that some people live outside of America.
“Good evening, Officer. Do you know if your spouse knows that you’re a liar?”
I feel like not knowing how fast you were going is also an admission of guilt though. Like, youre supposed to monitor that.
Then don’t answer it. You’re not obligated to.
“Hi officer, I think I was doing about -”
You can just look at him and not answer.
You need to give them license, registration, and proof of insurance, and otherwise comply, but you don’t need to talk to them.
And, it just occurred to me, as an old man, if I could somehow cry it might just make the cop uncomfortable enough to let me go. LOL.
Sob, “Ever since Marie died I’ve had nobody to tell me how fast I’m driving while I keep my eyes on the road. It’s like I’m missing half my soul…”
I mean crying kinda works
So my first ticket I should have gotten was in high school. My gf and two of our friends went two towns over to get slurpees (they had the good machine). I got pulled over doing 50 in a 35. Trying to catch up with the rest of our friends who had come along but lost me at a red light). Well all of the girls in the car started crying (for reasons?) and I just told the officer what was going on. I mean I could handle that speeding ticket.
Well after fifteen seconds both the officer and I were having a lot of trouble not laughing. Why the hell were they crying, I was the one who was going to have to pay some money. So he went to his car and giggled for a minute or two, then came back and gave me a warning.
I never got a satisfactory answer why she was crying, but like, teenagers right?
No, it is definitely the driver’s job to keep an eye on how fast they’re going.
Why
So they know when they set a P.B. without having to be told.
Ok so you are allowed to drive 30 km/h.
What do you do?
A) read your speedometer in order to drive according to the speed limit.
B) just wing it and guess the speed.
C) ask the policeman who you almost run over.
What is km/h?
1 km/h = 0,62137119 mph
Buddy, we’ve been over this, I don’t look at speed.
What is mph?
You’re annoying
Hurtful
Miles per hour. =mph
Kilometers per hour. = kph or km/h
I like the km/h because it is more correct and easier to read (given you have basic education)
Measurement that’s Phucking Horrible
Ohhhh, like Celsius, I see.
So they don’t kill people around them who are driving responsibly
Am I the only person around here who uses cruise control? Like all the time. Set it for 5 over, and I’m good. With adaptive cruise control, it will even slow you down when the guy in front is going slower.
My problem with ACC is that it makes traffic worse. A competent driver can look 500 feet up the road and think “oh, brake lights, I can literally just coast down and we’ll be going the same speed when they start moving again.” But ACC only looks at the car in front of you, so you get this constant accelerate and brake cycle that ripples backwards. Like on open road its fine, as long as you keep the following distance at a reasonable level, but I swear every asshole with a late model SUV keeps theirs set on tailgate mode, and it means any slowdown turns into stop and go
Edit: also cc is hella inefficient and will chew up a good 10% of your fuel economy on hilly terrain. If you set and forget it’s basically an “I would like to pay more money to the oil company please” button
Not in a hybrid with Hill Descent Control. That’s just more juice in the battery.
That’s cheating :P
It’s the future!
I remember once seeing a test where about two dozen drivers were asked to drive in a large circle. All it takes is one or two brakes in order to have this big accordion effect going through the whole thing.
I don’t know if that’s universal for ACC, mine will gradually slow down with traffic as long as I don’t have the follow distance set to the minimum. The only times it hard brakes is when someone cuts me off or if the car(s) ahead slam on their brakes, but even in that case it will try to slow down as gradually as it can while eating up that gap.
Also, on hilly terrain it will allow a fair deviation from the set speed before it will try to accelerate/brake more aggressively (usually +/- 5-10 km/h).
I’ve found leaving the distance on the ACC at the longest stabilizes the speed pretty well (when people aren’t taking advantage of the fact your car is known for having ACC so they cut you off even if you’re not using it, expecting the computer to give them room. Just cut off Teslas, they have the ACC and it’s a nazi car company. Don’t cut off my VW dammit)
adaptive cruise control
My car originally had that, but one day it came back from the service appointment at the dealership and that was no longer available. Software update removed that, probably because too many people were falling asleep thanks to that and the lane assist shit.
I almost got very messed up in a rental car using that. I was on a fairly tight winding road just West of Klamath Falls in Oregon. There was a concrete barrier median, the roadway, while fast was very 3 dimensional. I was overtaking a logging truck to my right with afternoon sun creating a ton of broken light (really pretty honestly). But the adaptive cruise got messed up with everything going on and did a hard braking when I absolutely didn’t expect and was very much not convenient to keep control. The brakes were worn so it tried to dive to the right, toward the semi. It was very memorable.
Oof. May I ask what car it was? I’ve mostly had good experiences with my car’s ACC (older prius) but I think it’s because I’ve learned its limits and eccentricities. My mother’s car has the ACC and lane keeping (which both work better than mine, but her car is newer and an Acura, not a Toyota. Luxury models, &c.) but they behave very differently than my car’s.
This was a pretty new Dodge Hornet. Now, I’ve been a long–time Dodge hater. For many reasons. But I’m strongly guessing that they’re worse than almost anyone else in the digital realm. It got terrible fuel economy (as all Dodge/Jeep/Chrysler vehicles do) but it was an ineffective hybrid so it also had a tiny fuel tank for that bad mileage. If you can’t get a realistic 400 mile journey in a go, there’s no reason to have a gas engine at all. And I was maybe getting 260 miles between fill ups. Also, I couldn’t get into the fucking thing. So, it’s a Dodge Hornet but it’s really a crossover SUV or whatever they want to call them. In effect, quite a large vehicle. But the entryway was so full of plastic I had to move the seat well back from my driving position to get into it. And even then, I almost always hit my head. All those complaints aside, I have driven a Nissan (which, also, not the biggest fan) but it did have really solid ACC. So I’m guessing the ACC panic in the Dodge was just a Dodge thing or specific to that vehicle. When I got to the coast, I ran it through the car wash and then went and made sure all of the sensors were clean. It still did it again on the trip home with even less reason to freak out (to my knowledge and intuition on the system) but also in a much safer situation.
i was betting ford. our last good ford was a green '94 aerostar, you know the kind. we didn’t get nissan or toyota mileage (either efficiency or distance before the engine died) but it was a good minivan.
Mr. Moneybags
It’s easier for them if you incriminate yourself.
“Do you? Or are you trying to copy my answer?”
I once responded with “honestly no but I mustn’t have have be doing the speed limit or we wouldn’t be here”. It got a laugh and I was let off with a warning. For the record, I’m a white guy with a mustache. Cops love mustaches
but i know where I am.
I got pulled over once when I was younger. I used to street race in the Chicago are so I was quite used to cops (this is 20 years ago). Anyways I get pulled over and he says the line. I told him my speedo only goes to 120mph and I was well past that. He goes “138” I’m like damn. Welp going to jail. Checked my license ect, then asked to see my friends ID to check for warrants. He flipped open his wallet and he’s a local PD for a adjacent department. The cops looks at me and him and goes “You mother fuckers need to go home and park this, if I see you again I sware the Christ…” No problem officer!
Dropped my car off and got my cop buddies Camaro SS for the rest of the night.
Officer: proceeds to emptying the entire mag in the head of the joker
Only if they aren’t white
That’s much more deeper than white vs non-white. It could be anything on the individual level: nationality, clothing, the car you are in.
What do you mean?
Police are notoriously racist
Since when?
Since the formation of the southern slave patrols that are the origin of US police forces. Not sure when it started for other countries’ police, though it was probably before that for a lot of them.
Please start using /s for some matters
What’s that?
It signals sarcasm
Since inception. ACAB
What does A Classy Asian Bistro have to do with this?
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Five. I’m pretty sure I was doing at least five.
Officer pulls out their gun BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Officer: Suspect is down. Suspect had a gun.
