RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Offtopic - speeding now

["Ross, Matthew" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Do you mean that they let you go to driving school and then 
> they strike
> the ticket from your record?  

Depends on the ticket and the judge. Usually this is the case, though they don't usually allow you to do so repeatedly...

> Would be nice for me.  I haven't had 21
> speeding tickets, but I get one now and then.  It's expensive 
> because of
> the way it affects your insurance.  Insurance is hardly worth 
> it -- I've
> had zero accidents that were my fault since 1980, and the one 
> in 1980 was
> minor.

Same here, except the year was 1996. I put a postage stamp sized spot of paint just above their bumper in the school parking lot. I knew the guy, and he wasn't upset about it, so nothing was done with it. 

I've had three other accidents, none of which I was moving at the time. One with me waiting in the left turn lane while someone pulled too far out into the oncomming lane and hit me. Another time I was hit by a branch I parked under that took a wrong turn in a storm. Fortunately it was insured. The other I found out about when I left work late one night. Someone hit my car, or at least thought they did. The spot they pointed to where they "hit" is one of those rust bubbles in the paint.

> Yet the law requires that I purchase auto insurance and the
> insurance companies feel that I'm at high risk because I've 
> had speeding
> tickets.  Do they even notice that I never have accidents?  
> That ought to
> count for something!!

I'm high risk because I'm under 25 (by one year) and single (as if being married improved your driving skills). I think my last ticket has already faded into history, so that's not an issue.

Speeding tickets aren't just for revenue though, speeding is dangerous. The faster you go, the more effect your wheel angle has to how quickly you go off course. This is why it seems "harder" to steer at high speed. Yes, 90% of the time you can handle going 20 over the speed limit, but a single slip-up would be fatal at 90mph. I suspect I'm the only one who didn't sleep through the driver's ed. statistics lecture where they showed the fatality rates and how they increase with speed...

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