Might come in handy with spring break and summer driving right around the corner!
Unfortunately a lot of pigs are on the site...some even clearly identifying themselves as such (and teasing the legitimate users).
Great site. Would improve tremendously if they used the Google Maps API.
It's much easier to just obey the traffic laws. It puts less stress in your day, and everybody else's for that matter, plus it makes you less interesting to traffic cops. But there's always the idiot that's got to get where they're going one second before everyone else and gin up a bunch of excitement and stress for everyone on the road. Driving is the one thing we all do just about every day that has the potential to directly affect so many other people's lives, stupid driving is NOT a victimless crime.
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Several issues:
Many speed limits are set deliberately and ridiculously low and then enforced heavily as revenue enhancement. That is the classic speed trap.
People tend to drive at speeds at which they feel safe, and that is often higher than posted limits. In general, cars today are far safer and more capable than they were decades ago when these limits were set.
Instead of cruising around and nailing people who do truly stupid and dangerous things while driving, or cruising neighborhoods looking for suspicious activities, the police prefer the low stress approach of going for the 5 over violators nabbed with radar, vascar, or similar devices. While parked waiting to nab violators, they are only doing part of the job we are paying them for. The street cops are pressured into this tactic by their management (via quotas).
Of course, when you see a parked cop operating a speed trap, you also know that there is one less cop on the street, so you are that much less likely to get nabbed somewhere else in the area.
Strict adherence to artificially low speed limits can often put YOU in danger. You are safest when you travel close to the average speed of traffic. Going significantly slower or faster is asking for trouble. The worst case result is often an accident and/or a multi-mile traffic jam.