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GPS Tracking Device Beats Radar Gun in Court
MojoKid writes "According to a release issued by Rocky Mountain Tracking, an 18-year old man, Shaun Malone, was able to
successfully contest a speeding ticket in court using the data from a GPS device installed in his car. This wasn't just any old make-a-left-turn-100-feet-ahead-onto-Maple-Street GPS; this was a vehicle-tracking GPS device — the kind used by trucking fleets — or in this case, overprotective parents. The device was installed in Malone's car by his parents, and the press release makes no mention if the teenager knew that the device was installed in his vehicle at the time."
It is your right as a free person to risk your own life yes, but you have no right whatsoever to risk the lives of anyone else without their express permission to do so.
Because in doing so you take away their rights and freedom to decide for themselves and thus you are no better than any other tyrant.
The traffic related deaths can be lowered alot by steeply raising the requirements needed to be elegible for a drivers license. Most people over here in europe look upon the US drivers license requirements as a joke, thats how low they are compared to whats required of us western europeans to earn a drivers license.