speeding
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NASCAR star Kyle Busch, currently third in the Sprint Cup standings, was pulled over on a road near his home in Mooresville, North Carolina yesterday for speeding in a bright yellow 2012 Lexus LFA not unlike the one pictured above. Busch was driving with his wife Samantha in the car at a speed of 128 mph in a 45 mph zone when he was spotted by local police and subsequently pulled over. He was given a citation for speeding, as well as careless and reckless driving, and has since apologized for his actions, stating that he will never do anything like that again--on public roads at least. The...
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Could Patrols Use Nav Traffic Data For Speed-Trap Placement?The navigation-system provider TomTom, which uses crowd-sourced traffic data to help find the fastest routes, has been caught in the Netherlands selling users' speed data to police—who then might use that to decide where to set up speed traps. Live traffic information is arguably one of the...
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Washington Business Owner Challenges Speeding Tickets, Wins
It's an awful feeling: That moment you open a letter to find an image of your car inside and a citation for speeding. Many would grit their teeth and pay up - do the crime, pay the time, as they say. Not for Will Foreman. The Washington businessman has beaten the charges on five occasions so far...
Antony Ingram -
More Things Lawmakers Will Hate: Cobra iRadar for Android Debuts April 4
Last week, four U.S. Senators expressed outrage over smartphone apps designed to reveal the location of DUI checkpoints. As they said in letters to Apple, Google, and Blackberry, "Giving drunk drivers a free tool to evade checkpoints, putting innocent families and children at risk, is a matter of...
Richard Read -
LA Lakers' Andrew Bynum Clocked Doing 110mph In His 2010 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
The LA Lakers' Andrew Bynum has been through a lot of physical therapy lately, in the hopes of getting his right knee ready for a return to the courts. He's been working with trainers, doing the medicine ball thing, and docs say he could be practicing with the team in a week or so. But you know how...
Richard Read -
Video: Lindsay Lohan Blows (Through A Stop Sign In Her Maserati)
Did you ever play the game "Kidnapped" in elementary school? It wasn't really a "thing", per se. In fact, we might've been the only ones playing it, and it might've been just in our heads. Which would be par for the course. Anyway, in the game, we pretended that we'd awoken in a strange bed in a...
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If you thought the couple of hundred dollars you had to pay on your last speeding fine was disheartening enough, take pity on this Swiss man who had to pay around $290,000--a new record. The fine was handed to the millionaire speeder who was caught by Swiss police racing through a village in his red Ferrari Testarossa at speeds of around 80 mph. "The accused ignored elementary traffic rules with a powerful vehicle out of a pure desire for speed," a Swiss court said in its judgment of the motorist. The previous record, also handed down in Switzerland, was for a Porsche driver who had to pay...
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Ross Brawn could lose license for speeding in the UK
Ross Brawn could lose his license after police caught him doing 100mph in his Mercedes road car in a 70mph speed zone on the A30 (UK). Referring to the May 30 incident, his lawyers wrote to magistrates asking for a court adjournment because the Brawn GP team owner and boss is currently abroad. The...
Kenneth Hall -
UK's nanny state goes a step further: trialing in-car GPS speed limiters
Already the UK is known as one of the most intrusive nations in the world when it comes to surveillance and speeding, but apparently they're not quite satisfied yet. Now Transport for London (TfL) is launching a trial of a GPS-based in-car speed limiter which will forcibly slow a speeding car. The...
Nelson Ireson -
UK speed camera chief banned for speeding at over 100mph
A special kind of justice was meted out in Britain on Wednesday, when Tom Riall, CEO of Serco - a speed camera supplier - was busted for driving more than 30mph (48km/h) above the speed limit. A court heard his case, fined him $450 and banned him from the road for six months. It might seem like a...
Kenneth Hall -
A speeding ticket? But officer, I was at home, asleep
Another day, another wacky UK speed camera ticket. This time, a young woman was busted for driving 37mph in a 30mph zone. The catch? The car was parked, and the woman was asleep in her house at the time. After a car triggered a speed camera but wasn't caught in the frame, an operator noted the only...
Kenneth Hall -
Driver of Lotus Elise clocked at an ‘impossible’ 173mph
British police have discovered the world's fastest unmodified Lotus Elise, having clocked motorist Tex O'Reilly at the phenomenal speed of 173mph - almost three-and-a-half times the speed limit for the area where he was 'caught'. Unfortunately for the Derbyshire police, the Lotus Elise they managed...
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We've all heard the phrase 'speed kills', and it's been widely applied to situations both apt and not. A recent study conducted by the NHTSA examining over 5,400 crashes across a nearly three-year period presents some evidence that excessive speed, while it may cause more serious injuries, is not a leading cause of accidents. Adopting a simplified linear model of an accident's timeline, the most frequent 'critical pre-crash event' cause is driver inattention. The 'critical pre-crash event' is defined as the action or event that puts the vehicle on an inevitable collision course - the point of...
