Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!jmsellens
From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (was Highway Driving Rules)
Keywords: speed limits
Message-ID: <13857@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 16 May 89 07:30:47 GMT
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Reply-To: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <858@bnr-rsc.UUCP> mark@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark MacLean) writes:
>I have also talked to police who are using radar to look for speeders
>and they had the equipment set to trigger only if the car was going >20
>or >30 km/h over the speed limit.  This is an admission by them that
>the posted speed limit is unreasonable.  If they truely beleived in it,
>then they would enforce it exactly.

Your conclusion does not necessarily follow.  Some possibilities:
- posted limit is unenforceable
- not economically worthwhile to enforce limit (e.g. if it takes 10
  minutes to give a ticket, why not give a high $ one instead of a
  low $ one)
- enforcing limit not worth aggravating drivers
- don't have manpower/facilities to stop everyone, so pick the most
  flagrant offenders
- concentrate on people disrupting the traffic flow rather than those
  going with the traffic
and on and on ...