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Fight Over $194 Speeding Ticket Costs $15,000 and Counting
An anonymous reader writes "Roger Rude, a retired Sonoma County sheriff's lieutenant, is still fighting a speeding ticket his step-son, Shaun Malone, received in 2007. Shaun Malone was allegedly going 62 mph in a 45-mph zone, according to a Petaluma police officer. To the officer's surprise, Malone was using a GPS tracking device which reported his speed to an online database every 30 seconds. At the time of stop, the GPS reported Malone's speed at 45 mph. Rude has been helping Malone fight the speeding ticket for over two years. The Petaluma Police Department has spent $15,000 in the prosecution of this case. The case is now in the hands of the Commissioner."
The court system went down the Stupid Route and said that GPS technology wasn't accurate or reliable enough.
Read up on the case. it's insane. they should have dismissed the damn ticket immediately.
You say 62 sounds about right to balance the acceleration phase but you have not taken into account the short distance travelled. Going from 0 to 62 and then slowing down to 45 in 30 seconds is going to take a lot more distance travelled than a little over a third of a mile. It would certainly take some beast of a car - if it is possible at all.