>Many cites engage in "zero tolerance traffic enforcement" programs. This is where they patrol a single stretch of road and stop every single person who is even 1mph above the limit.
Searching this all I find is Virginia where over 80 is an automatic reckless driving, but the highest speed limit in the state is actually 70. I've never heard of anyone being pulled over for 1mph over the limit.
FWIW, that's the opposite of how citation requests work. Support your claims
Who is "we"? Vehicles and pedestrians mixing is something that predates recorded history.
> who is even 1mph above the limit.
Neither the radar gun, not the speedometer on a car are accurate enough for that.
The collective "we."
> Neither the radar gun, not the speedometer on a car are accurate enough for that.
You have a radar gun. You clock a car. The gun says 30mph. You clock the next car. The gun says 31mph. In the latter case you write a ticket.
You're free to argue the vagaries of measurement systems in court. Good luck.
Won't need much luck, the first time this shows up in court it will be thrown out and officers told to stop writing false tickets.
There's a reason cops don't ticket anything less than 10mpg over - the tools they use are not just that accurate. It's a fake number.
This is incredibly common [1].
[1] https://www.findlaw.com/traffic/traffic-stops/can-i-challeng...
I don't think there is any truth to this at all.
> We set a relatively low max speed
We made the mistake of mixing vehicle and pedestrian infrastructure. Our speed choices have way more to do with this than with imagined enforcement outcomes.
> because you are only going to be pulled over a fraction of the time.
Many cites engage in "zero tolerance traffic enforcement" programs. This is where they patrol a single stretch of road and stop every single person who is even 1mph above the limit.
> most are designed based on the enforcement capabilities of the time.
Most are "designed" (a.k.a rapidly created and pushed into existence) in reaction to disasters that occurred and people broadly feel could have been prevented if there was a law curtailing the behavior that led up to the accident.
We didn't make speeding laws based upon "enforcement capabilities" we made them in response to "wasteful deaths."