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Keith B wrote:

RX8er wrote:

baldeagle wrote:Don't worry guys. In a little while the problem will be solved for you. The US DoT is mandating black boxes in all new cars starting in 2014. Once that happens the cops won't even have to patrol or use radar any more. The government will simply upload your data weekly and send you tickets for each time you exceeded the speed limit.



Ain't technology great?

The vast majority of new cars in the last couple years have had black boxes in them.

They do use them in accident investigation. I had some good friends that were killed by a guy that was speeding. He was driving a GMC Envoy. Analysis of the box indicated he was going 98 MPH when he went hit the curb, went air-born and sheered the top off of their mini van. This was in a 40 MPH zone and at an intersection. He was the only one to survive, but is paralyzed and now serving a 15 year sentence for vehicular manslaughter.

Shasta wrote:So, I was admitting defeat (more-or-less) and headed to the courthouse this morning, only to find out that they're closed all day on Friday.

As I was filling out the plea form, I noticed that the date is wrong on the ticket. I hope that I'm not screwing up, but I'm just filling out the response as not guilty, I'll go to court and show evidence that I was at the HLSR BBQ cookoff as a sponsor all day on the 21st, which was the date the officer wrote on the ticket. I'll also print out records of my toll passes to show that I was at 290 on the 22nd in the morning headed toward Bryan and in the afternoon headed back. The vehicle I was in did not pass any toll booths on the 21st. If, as C-dub says, I have a JP who says the date doesn't matter, I'll have to argue that it certainly DOES matter. In my line of business (pharmacy, in nursing homes, hospitals, and surgery) our records are absolutely crucial and a screw-up on a date could be the difference between life or death -- or between being paid, or having our money taken back for medicare or insurance fraud.

Now my question would be trial by judge, or trial by jury? Once again, Mr. Shasta says judge, but I feel that a jury may be more likely to believe the motorist.

OldCurlyWolf wrote:Out on the open road I run a gps program that keeps a continuous log of my speed, location and heading. If I have to go to court over a mistaken ID stop, I am going to win.