Keep in mind that in order to contest it you have to turn up to court around 8am and your case will probably be heard around 5pm.
It's a bit of an added extra scam 'cause they know people would rather pay the fine than lose a whole day in court.
Yeah but a day of entertainment and trying not to laugh your arse off at bogans contesting innocence in court.
Speed traps are a bit of a scam. They have to make a quota so they crack down on anything if they're below quota. If they're already above quota then they ignore anyone under 20kph over.
Quotas are a bit of a fallacy. That comes from a family friend who was Snr Sgt in a rural HWP (both as a car and bike officer) for 30 years.
It's not so much a quota, but discrectionary powers. According to him an officer has limited discretionary powers (both on the speed over as well as how often they can do it). Beyond that it has to be approved by a snr officer. If you are borderline between 2 offences the officer can easily drop it down one, but upper end of one it requires approval.
He reckons anything under 10kph and generally you are sweet.
ACT won't miss you.
$1811 fine. 6 points. 3 month suspension.
Made his quota in a hot minute.
Nor will brand new unmarked cars in NSW, a heavy right foot, and a "it'll never happen to me" attitude.
End result was:
$2067 fine.
6 demerit points.
6 months suspension.
never got caught speeding or crashes since 09.11.2001
I love this arguement. Worst driver in the world could have 0 speeding infringements or crashes... but how many have they CAUSED.
Re the speedo discussion... my old car with new mags (and a new diff amongst many other things) was out. Ended up having to have it recalibrated to pass engineering.
Current car over reads by about 8kph. So speedo will be on say 118kph, but actual speed will be 110kph on GPS (both dashcam and Tomtom).
However if your speedo was 100% accurate and you're relying on it being out by 10%, then if you are doing say 111kph, you'd be 11kph over.
