Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket
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Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket
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#2A friend of mine beat a speeding ticket once by demonstrating that it was physically impossible for him to have slowed down from the claimed speed and stopped in the location where the officer wrote the ticket.
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#3The paper was submitted April 1st according to http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0162
April fools perhaps?
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#4A friend of mine beat a speeding ticket once by demonstrating that it was physically impossible for him to have slowed down from the claimed speed and stopped in the location where the officer wrote the ticket.
A guy from my parents' church beat a speeding ticket by demonstrating that the motorcycle cop would have had to reach a speed of over 160 mph in order to clock him at the speed measured at location A and then catch him by location B.
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#5Haha, nice way to beat the system. But I doubt the symmetry of those two graphs.
Surely, there is no (ordinary) retail car on the planet which can accelerate as fast as it decelerates?
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#6> or maybe he was simply impressed by the sheer dedication Krioukov put into avoiding this ticket.
This seems more likely.
I beat a speeding ticket with GPS data once - except the judge didn't even ask to see the data. I just said I had it. (Yes, the officer was there in court too.) The judge said he'd take my word for it.
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#7Haha, nice way to beat the system. But I doubt the symmetry of those two graphs. Surely, there is no (ordinary) retail car on the planet which can accelerate as fast as it decelerates?
I doubt there is any car that can unless the brakes are really dodgy (apart from the rocket powered ones with parachutes)..
Just goes to show, if you haven't got a hope in hell, try bullshit and long words.
[edit] Just looked up formula one cars, they are 2g acceleration and 5g braking apparently.
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#8Haha, nice way to beat the system. But I doubt the symmetry of those two graphs. Surely, there is no (ordinary) retail car on the planet which can accelerate as fast as it decelerates?
First comment:
"venky said...
He claims in his model, 'his car decelerated at - 10 m/s^2 and, instantaneously, accelerated to + 10 m/s^2 at t = 0'.
No known mechanical system is capable of achieving such an instantaneous jump without a tail-off period. ...."
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#9> I want to ask the readership to please find the flaw in the argument.
"The officer had special two-week training that qualifies him to estimate angular velocity whichever the fucking way he wants, even with a completely obstructed view."
Courtesy of Canadian reality. Plot me a graph to counter that.
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#10> or maybe he was simply impressed by the sheer dedication Krioukov put into avoiding this ticket. This seems more likely. I beat a speeding ticket with GPS data once - except the judge didn't even ask to see the data. I just said I had it. (Yes, the officer was there in court too.) The judge said he'd take my word for it.
My friend always appears in court after getting speeding tickets because it is apparently more costly for the court to pay for the session and the officer's time than what they will get from a ticket, so they usually dismiss it to save money. Sometimes the officers don't even show up. He has told me it works every time.