Came across some pictures taken during the ride home from SEMA 2008. My GF snapped this. Oops. And our nightcap
wow Reacher .. my girl shits if I go over 80! Yours is taking pics!!! Marry that broad!!! sweet kill! btw .. can you post pics of your ride .. I havent anything except the sideview mirror and speedo! LOL
We were just slowing down from that run when we hit one of those low hills on 15. Just about 115mph, my V1 goes berserk and I stabbed the brakes, crest the hill, CHP RIGHT on the other side of it, tagged me at 93. Whoops. I think the Lambo might have been clocked faster because the CHP officer really didn't say 2 words to me. He just wrote my ticket, handed it to me, and went back to the Lambo. :sweat: Broke my own rule of not braking hard down to 80 as soon as I'm done with a run like that, paid the price. rop:
Oh, she's not happy about it, but at least she made the most of it. I took these yesterday and that's me
http://www.radarbusters.com/radar-detectors/escort-radar-detectors/escortpassport9500ix.cfm I think that's going to be my next radar detector. My better half has absconded with my V1 in her GCSRT8.
:drool:love the pics! very nice!!!:drool: hey I dont mean to be a douche, but is your SRT emblem on the trunk crooked???
$345 with traffic school Oddly, it was less than the 65+ I got on the way home from SEMA 2006 about 5 miles west of where I got that one. That one was $385 w/ traffic school.
nice job dude. my last was 85 in a 65 and the judge dropped it to 200 something with traffic school if i wrote a paper on why "speeding is bad" haha.
Hey Brian, nice pics and you got off lucky on the ticket. How the hell have you been? Haven't seen you in like forever. Raymond
I had a year long "depression" about my car due to 5 accidents in a fairly short period of time none of which were my fault at all. But I'm feeling much better now Of course, I'm still poor and can't afford mods for my 300 since Mary and I just got an '09 GC SRT8, pix coming soon. But my engine warranty should be up around the end of the year so I think I'm going to start saving for a twin screw next spring :king:
haha, you think i was joking? upon further reading, i think i was arguing the case that speeding isnt really "that" bad....lmao. __________________ In this short essay, I will attempt to play on both sides of the argument of why it is important not to speed. My definition of speeding will be addressed and I will try to take on the role of both devils advocate and the role of law abiding citizen. I will then try and create logical findings for both, however I do understand that at the end of the day, the law is the law and I broke it. My definition of speeding isn’t breaking the speed limit by 1 mph. My definition of speeding is driving much faster than the majority of motorists. Transportation engineers have concluded time after time that driving the posted speed limit doesn’t deter accidents from happening. The cause of these accidents is always someone either driving too slowly or much faster than his or her peers. My opinion is that since the majority of drivers have been known to break the speed limit by 5-10 miles per hour, speed limits are kept low to deter excessive speeding. If I drive 80 miles per hour and my fellow motorists are at relatively the same speed of travel, there is a very low chance of danger. However, if one or two motorists are actually driving the speed limit, and the majority of other drivers are at an average of 80, there will be accidents. I don’t want to be ticketed for driving over the speed limit; I would like to be ticketed for driving too fast for the conditions of traffic. These conditions could include: 1) Road Conditions (construction, hazards, old pavement, etc.) 2) Offending Vehicle’s condition (performance characteristics, age, etc.) 3) Traffic (heavy, light, no one on the road) 4) Visibility (clear, foggy, raining, etc.) 5) Driver’s ability (young driver, age, etc.) As a matter of fact, incorrect speed limits (too low in areas) are actually more dangerous than many people realize. It is a fact that over the past 60 years, every respected traffic engineering report has concluded that speed limits should be set to the 80-85 percentile for free flowing traffic under good conditions. That basically means to me that at 85 percent of the population can travel at or below that speed in light traffic and good road conditions. The upper 15% can travel at the excessive speed without issue or law enforcement interference. Does the government actually think we the population drive 65mph? The only people that drive that speed are either lost or truckers worried about getting fired from their company for too many speeding tickets. The amazing thing is that according to a 7-year, 1992 Federal Highway Administration (FHwA) study in which speed limits were varied at 100 locations nationwide and the resulting traffic flow analyzed, "raising posted speed limits by as much as 15 mph had little effect on motorists' speeds," and "contrary to public perception the data actually indicate that accident rates were reduced at sites where speed limits were raised." What does this tell us? Speed limits are set too low and that enforcement of these limits is an exercise in futility. What about other countries that have adopted different traffic laws pertaining to speed? The autobahn is a shining example of this. Everyone knows that there is no speed limit in certain areas of the autobahn and that the speed limit only goes into affect once the vehicle enters a populated area. Why can a foreign country that has this ability with less accidents, less fatalities and an older average age of vehicle have this beautiful thing established and we do not? My opinion is politics and bureaucracy. Our government relies so heavily on traffic tickets and fines that opening up the freeways here would be a huge blow to our state income. Another study done in California showed that almost seven out of ten motorists exceed the posted speed limit in urban areas, people actually were better at following the speed limit in higher speed zones than in lower city areas. So the places where people could actually die, more people violated the speed laws than in areas where fatalities were very rare. What does that tell us? To me, it says that in areas where there is law enforcement, i.e. highways, people follow the law a bit more closely. Areas where there is a low rate of law enforcement, i.e. cities and suburbs have more violators. Currently the NMA has a model running that will hopefully conclude that speed limits around the country definitely need to be changed. Some premature conclusions are that only about 1 in 10 speed zones have better than 50 percent compliance. The study shows that most speed zones are posted 8-12 mph below the average travel speed and 15 mph or more below the maximum safe speed. Increasing speed limits to more realistic levels will not result in higher speeds from drivers, but actually have more people voluntarily comply with the target speed limit. This would also draw more attention to the high risk and extreme violator. Bottom line here still remains that the only way we can have safer roads is to better engineer the speed limits on our roads. Acting as the devil’s advocate, the logic behind speed laws and where they fail to actually work in real life are as follows. Currently, the speed limit is 65mph in many areas of California’s highways. Why 65 miles per hour? Ever year brings more and more advancements in automotive engineering and performance. I drive a 2006 Dodge Charger, a car that is built for cruising California’s highways and interstates. This car does not cruise at 65 no matter how you try to feather the gas pedal. The car’s cruising speed is around 75 to 80 miles per hour. When the car is cruising at that speed, it can easily slow down to take drastic action if there is an accident ahead or other reason why an emergency braking would be necessary. Speed limits should be in place depending on the vehicle and the environment, not just because there needs to be a limit. If people actually drove the speed limit, there would be chaos on our highways. This is shown many times with student protests of speed limits. There are actually many videos that show a group of students using their cars to drive 65 in all 4 lanes of a highway in California. Traffic is shown to be backed up for miles because of this. Cars today handle and react better than the cars of the 70s and 80s did when the laws were changed in 1987 and the 65mph speed limit came about. To be absolutely honest, if the federal government were truly interested in maintaining traffic law, they would equip each new car with a GPS speed enforcement device. Every time you break the speed limit in a certain area by whatever margin, the computer would track it and you would be mailed a speeding ticket. I am not arguing for a speed limit of 120 miles an hour. I am debating the fact of why a 65mph speed limit is in place at all. Trucks currently have a speed limit of 55 mph on our highways, so why not have another speed limit for us with high performance automobiles? On the other side of the argument, it can be said that speeding is the main cause of accidents and fatalities on American roadways. This information can be taken either way, one side can say that speeding is the main issue at hand, the other side can state that driver’s attention to road conditions are the determining factor. Its politics, one side is always warring with the other. I know that what I did was wrong. I was excited and driving down to Roseville from Auburn on the 80 and came up on a driver cruising the fast lane at 65mph, I got annoyed because I was at 75 and thought I would pass just like the rest of traffic in front of me. I changed lanes, got in the middle lane and drove by him as quickly as I could so the guy behind me could do the same. This probably got the attention of the California highway patrol plane over head and they decided to clock me while I was slowing down from passing him. I can understand why I was singled out, I drive a black car and not some minivan or SUV that CHP rarely looks at twice. I have I guess a flashy car and they wanted to pull me over because it looked like I was going the fastest. Indeed I was not, but the point remains moot. I got caught, others didn’t. I did pass in the middle lane like a moron, so I understand them punishing me. In reality though, I would have never passed in the middle lane if the person in the fast lane wasn’t just cruising along at 65 mph and slowing every one else down. Truthfully, I haven’t sped much after I got this ticket almost a year ago. I still drive 70-75 mph because I don’t want to get run over here in the bay area, but I never drive at 80 which I used to do as an average speed before. I think 80 miles per hour looks a lot faster to the police than just 5 or 10 over the speed limit. I do not agree with the current speed limit at all to be honest, but I realize that it is the law to drive the posted speed and that even my driving 5 or 10 miles an hour over the speed limit is technically against the law. I just would rather drive the speed of other traffic than take and chance at driving too slowly for the conditions at hand and having someone who isn’t paying attention drive up my backside. Fines and money is one thing, serious or fatal injuries are a whole different ballgame. People will always break the law and speed, no matter how many more highway patrol or local police we the tax payers employ, speeding will remain a constant.
