> Speeding doesn’t suddenly become legal because two or more drivers do it together.
That's not true. Examples:
I once pulled out my local newspaper where local judges were petitioning to have speed limits raised because they were throwing out speeding tickets due to excessive fines. This was in Massachusetts, in the late 1990s or early 2000s, about a road in Shrewsbury near lake Quinsigamond. The context was that the speed limit was 25, traffic flowed at 40-45, and they would throw out tickets for people doing 50.
I was once pulled over in a Massachusetts tollbooth even though I was the slowest driver on the road. (2004, I90 westbound at the intersection of 128, when EZ Pass still had to go through actual tollbooths.) If I was given an actual ticket, I would have point-blank told the judge that I was going half the speed of everyone else and feared getting rear-ended; then the case would have been dismissed. (The cop also knew this, because he recognized me from traffic court and knew that I'd make him look like a fool for pulling over the slowest driver.)
That's not true. Examples:
I once pulled out my local newspaper where local judges were petitioning to have speed limits raised because they were throwing out speeding tickets due to excessive fines. This was in Massachusetts, in the late 1990s or early 2000s, about a road in Shrewsbury near lake Quinsigamond. The context was that the speed limit was 25, traffic flowed at 40-45, and they would throw out tickets for people doing 50.
I was once pulled over in a Massachusetts tollbooth even though I was the slowest driver on the road. (2004, I90 westbound at the intersection of 128, when EZ Pass still had to go through actual tollbooths.) If I was given an actual ticket, I would have point-blank told the judge that I was going half the speed of everyone else and feared getting rear-ended; then the case would have been dismissed. (The cop also knew this, because he recognized me from traffic court and knew that I'd make him look like a fool for pulling over the slowest driver.)