I wish one of the GPS manufacturers would develop a feature that logs your last 10-15 minutes of driving (route and speed) at the press of a button with the ability to print a report that could possibly prove that a person was not speeding.
My Garmin’s trip computer will do that already...although the user must do a reset when needed. No hard copy report though.
I was driving home from the airport very late one night (2 AM) and had reset my trip data and max speed log for mileage expense calculation purposes. I was traveling through a rural/wooded region and was pulled over.
The trooper said I was ‘swerving’ (OK, whatever) and that he had clocked me at 74 mph in a 65 zone. A glance at my GPS revealed that I had not exceeded 66 mph at any point since departure. It was obvious that Johnny Law was on a DUI fishing expedition at that hour (’Have you been drinking etc.’) so I played it cool and lied and said if I was swerving it was only because I was tired after a long flight. He let me go.
But some part of me SO wanted to dispute his speed reading (assuming there was one) and/or photograph my GPS’s readout for use in court. Google searches indicate that traffic courts are mostly hostile to such evidence (but readily accept dodgy radar and laser stats - gee I wonder why?) but facts are facts and I’d rather have them especially when police ‘estimates’ are now the standard.