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The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by DrScump »

diafygi wrote: post #70
crashbunny wrote: post #68

How do you claim the record and not incriminate yourself? A few people in Australia have been fined for uploading a photo they took while driving to social media. One was a politician who was stopped at some road works. He uploaded it to facebook and some people complained he broke the law. So he went to a police station voluntarily and I guess made a statement and was issued a fine. (You can't touch your phone even…

In the past, a team would wait until the statue of limitations had lapsed before publishing their evidence. https://jalopnik.com/alex-roy-reveals-transcontinental-run-c...

In many states, the statute of limitations clock stops running when you leave the state, so you could find the expiry date still hasn't arrived if you come back.

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by gbin »

denlekke wrote: post #23
mydongle wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't they just invalidate runs that happen during something like a pandemic?

there's no one to invalidate them ! even validating them is a game of trust as it's illegal and most of the only other people interested are competitors who are reluctant to be beaten. the vinwiki guy has made himself out to be an arbiter because he gets more views on his youtube channel and app subscribers from it

"other people interested are competitors who are reluctant to be beaten". So this! Ed became a kind of a de facto PR for the run but his bitterness seeps through his reporting all the time...

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by c22 »

ethbro wrote: post #62
RickJWagner wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I get it. For us oldsters, there is a little cool-ness associated with the CannonBall Run from an old (but popular) movie. But it is a stupid thing, for sure.

Static speed limits that apply to all drivers identically are a joke. Because not all drivers are identically skilled. So either you recognize the absurdity inherent in our speed laws, or you think the system is reasonable. The Cannonball Run isn't for the latter.

I used to think I was a skilled driver, but then I got in a terrible car accident because I was going too fast and the driver of the other vehicle wasn't as skilled as I was. Now I'm a much better driver.

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by 5555624 »

randallsquared wrote: post #57
trhway wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my understanding [IANAL] that speeding more than 30mph falls under "reckless driving" which is a misdemeanor. It is a serious PITA, especially for immigrants. Felony is much more than something "to sort out", it is more like a catastrophe.

More than 20mph in some states, such as VA. My partner was doing just over 70 in a 65mph zone on an empty highway on Sunday afternoon, and didn't slow fast enough when it became a "construction" zone of 50mph, and had to retain an attorney to avoid more consequences than the fine.

In VA, currently, any speed over 20mph the posted speed limit or above 80mph is reckless driving. If the posted speed limit is 65mph or 70mph, which means you hit the reckless driving limit at 15mph or 10mph respectively.

Last month, the governor signed a law raising it the max speed to 85mph. It takes effect 01 July. (The 80mph limit was put into effect when speed limits were raised to 65mph.)

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by jwalton »

blunte wrote: post #13

It still amazes me that the US, with all its red light cameras, doesn't adopt the European speed cameras that create a lot of tickets (at significant fines) for relatively minor speeding infractions. Top Gear did a test years ago to see just how fast you would need to go to defeat a speed camera, and it was well beyond what the Cannonballers would be running. You just can't fool a high speed camera easily. Of course,…

This was a good and amusing article from a law professor about some of the problems with speed cameras in America: https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/01/18093/

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by protomyth »

hpoe wrote: post #49
protomyth wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would bet that most traffic on I-90 in South Dakota is at or over 90mph given the speed limit is now 80mph. Heck, North Dakota, not exactly a bastion of enforcement, decided against going higher specifically because of South Dakota. Idaho, Wyoming and Utah have 80mph limits and Texas has road at 85mph. A lot of plain states are not hyper about speed limits. 120mph is going to get you in trouble, badly, but 90 might…

I'll say man, there is just something almost spiritual being all there alone out in the Utah West desret can see a hundred miles in every direction, nothing but flat unbroken skyline, blowing down the highway at 110 mph and then realizing even at those blistering speeds you're hardly moving against that infinite flat backdrop. I love it man.

I once thought North Dakota was sparsely populated, but I had no true idea of that word until I drove through Wyoming. It is so easy to run way over the speed limit, more from inattention than any real decision, on a deserted road with such a far horizon and nothing anywhere near you. Its a different kind of driving when there are signs with "Next Gas Station 79 miles".

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by xnyan »

ethbro wrote: post #62
RickJWagner wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I get it. For us oldsters, there is a little cool-ness associated with the CannonBall Run from an old (but popular) movie. But it is a stupid thing, for sure.

Static speed limits that apply to all drivers identically are a joke. Because not all drivers are identically skilled. So either you recognize the absurdity inherent in our speed laws, or you think the system is reasonable. The Cannonball Run isn't for the latter.

Humans have in incredible talent for self-deception. Static speed limits are not a joke if you accept that our understanding of physics is real and have a basic understanding of how increasing speed increases energy at impact in a non-linear way.

You can be the best driver in the world (and you are almost certainly not), but someone blowing through a red light will still be unavoidable at times.

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by joezydeco »

sandworm101 wrote: post #25
denlekke wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe not what the above commenter meant but some euro speed camera systems compare pictures and the time they were taken from multiple cameras to get average speed. so imagine a camera that logs every on and off ramp of i-80 and if you the times you enter and exit indicate an average speed above the speed limit, you get a ticket.

If you know where those are, you just don't let them read your plate. There are products out there that can turn your license plate "off" with the flick of a switch. But if you are modifying car for a cannonball run you can build one yourself. Google "smart glass". Remember too that many US states do not require front plates. So it is not unusual for a car to be seen without one, leaving only the rear plate to worry…

Lots of states are aware of active/passive plate obsfucation systems and make covering the plate with any material an illegal act.

The only thing that seems legal is letting your plate 'degrade' with corrosion to the point where the automated readers can't make out the characters.

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by matt-attack »

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #8
smokelegend wrote: post #4

The open road is open once more... Note, if you get caught at these high speeds on public roads, you will be arrested and vehicle impounded. Most of the time police officers will draw their weapons when making vehicle stops of this nature. Most state laws have a zero tolerance policy for vehicles exceeding 90mph on public roads. But if you got bail money, GODSPEED

>Note, if you get caught at these high speeds on public roads, you will be arrested and vehicle impounded. Being white and polite (and generally having a bunch of things about you that scream the opposite of "criminal scum") counts for a lot. In most states officers have discretion to choose between the civil and criminal version of whatever the state's "ludicrous speed" violation is.

These guys were driving an Audi A8. Definitely a white, non-criminal car. More of a CEO’s car.

Re: The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks

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Post by guenthert »

klenwell wrote: post #48
fragmede wrote: post #6

Semi-relatedly, the California Highway Patrol reported an 87% increase in speeding tickets for > 100pmh as compared to 2019. https://twitter.com/CHP_HQ/status/1253087393567014912

Isn't that a felony? Years ago when I was in college I talked to a post-doc or visiting professor from Germany who got am aerial speeding ticket for going really fast on some desolate part of the I5 on his way from San Diego to San Francisco. He said it turned out to be much more serious than he expected (coming from the Land of Chocolate and the Autobahn) and it was a pain in the ass to sort out.

He might have expected less, as Germany treats speeding comparatively casually. Two years ago I got a ticket for 50mph in a 40 zone (construction on the Autobahn, on a Sunday, with a radar trap behind a bridge) and it turned out to be a whopping 30 euro. Paid via the Internet and bank transfer.
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