Article on getting caught going over 100 MPH

Interesting article, lots of variation regarding consequences of speeding past 100MPH: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayof...ket/index.html I do a lot of driving on a stretch of Arizona highway that is 75MPH, generally meaning drivers going 80MPH are left alone. But if you are going 75-80MPH, going around or passing a car can quickly put you in 90+ MPH territory, easy to get in a lot of trouble! The limits above are reasonable to me, and I have no tickets in the past few years. But it would be frustrating living in a more populated state where limits are more often closer to 55MPH, our cars are practically idling at that speed.

What the... 85mph+ is reckless driving in Virginia? Seriously? Half the cars on I-20 east of Birmingham, AL are doing 85mph+, how can Virginia be so toxically mal-adjusted to the rest of the country?

Yup, VA is screwed up. My good friend was tossed in the can for 6 frickin days for speeding. It was supposed to be 30 but the judge reduced it to 6. Some rule about a day for every mph over a certain speed. Lucky for him they reduced it but even 6 days in the car would suck. Heck, even the cop let him have his girlfriend drive the car home instead of impound.

Wow, I wouldn't want to be ticketed in VA. The highest speed I've been tickected for was 105 over 70, which was like a fine of over $300 (can't remember exactly, few years back) but I had to attend class for the points. The cop did threaten that he could put me in jail for the offence at that speed.

I've only once been involved in a really high number, and it was on a cross country before Montana put in a daytime limit. Really in a different tax bracket than the stuff in the article, but was surprisingly reasonable (largely because they didn't have a daytime limit at the time) and was before th era of computerized reciprocity / reporting so largely consequence free. If I were to be caught doing something like that today anywhere in the USA I would not pass go, not collect 200 dollars, go directly to jail I will say I'm looking forward to popping over to Munich next week or the week after to remember why I have so much autobahn bred German hardware! My buddy there has a 964, and I will steal it for the day!

you guys should live in ny metro area where rush hour starts at 6am and ends at 10am in the morning and between 3-6:30pm at nite. you'd swear 25mph is speeding then. on a clear highway 70-75 is about the max here.

JSMARAND, Don't forget to sign the the initative in tucson to remove all the photo radar cameras here in arizona on the 2010 ballot or they will have allot more speed traps set via the interstate, right now it's just scary driving around in phoenix. Just got a photo radar ticket for 23 over which is reckless with no traffic around and I counted 3 cameras within a 1 mile stretch and the thing that gets my goat is that I will be attending 4 hour driving school in a boring classroom instead they should have made it a DE event instead. Intiative: http://camerafraud.wordpress.com/ini...where-to-sign/

I don't have to worry about going 100+ in my Honda. Hell, I am lucky if I can get it to 65..... downhill and with the wind!

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I do. It sucks! It's why I will never commute in a major city. BTW little story, the first Monday of fashion week this year a cab pulled up next to me (was driving the 528xi) on the west side highway at 3AM. The driver rolled the window down and it was an undercover LEO. I don't know if I was even speeding but anyway officer advised me to drive slowly, that the limit was 35 on the highway below 57th, and to get home safe. He never got out of the car, asked me for anything, was like a public service announcement. I took his advice, and when I jumped on the henry hudson at 57th, there was another cab, stopped on the shoulder. Everyone goes nuts after going stopligt to stoplight in town and lets it rip right there, especially because it's common knowledge that the cops have nowhere to stop and clock you there, and lo and behold the shouldered cab is also undercover, lights up and pulls some poor jerk over for the exceedingly rare and I'm sure frighteningly expensive manhattan speeding ticket. So if you're out there, thank you officer! saved me a lot of money that night! I picked up my 996 at Porsche Tucson in 07 and made the run to LA on the 10, and at some points in the high desert well beyond phoenix was in the mid triple digits. No cars, no turns, just mile after mile of deserted straight asphalt. Honestly I was in the triple digits 40 seconds into the test drive. I didn't hear about the photo radar until I got to LA, but since I didn't have plates yet, never heard anything about it! It's ALWAYS the hondas doing 100 on the shoulder cutting me off!

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The article is wrong, it's 80 mph, not 85. 20 over the speed limit or anything over 80 is automatic reckless driving. It's HORRIBLE! Last year, they passed legislation slapping a $2000 "dangerous driver" fee on top of the ticket, but it was thankfully overturned by the courts and so wildly unpopular, they even refunded the fees of those forced to pay while it was in effect. Still really really sucks, though. I try hard to stick to 75 and below. The only bright side is that pretty much everyone can plea bargin down to the just the speeding ticker or the lesser "improper driving" summary offense so you don't have a misdemeanor on your record or spend any time in jail. Generally speaking, though, if you're going over 100 in VA, you're going to find yourself in jail. Especially if it was only a 25mph zone... The most serious penalties are reserved for offenses that result in fatalities, not for driving 81mph on I-95.

HTNY, Originally they had no warning that there was photo radar coming up, then they changed the law to have posted signs stating that it is a enforcement area. I understand where you are coming from when in the triple digits the signs go by pretty fast. The good thing about photo radar if any is that our Sheriff Arpio will not go after reckless driving photo tickets because they where not handed out by an actual officer. On I-10 the police are like scorpions they travel in pairs around Blythe one on each side in about the same area.

Uh huh.

I save my over 100 mph forays for the track.

Welcome to the 21st Century. (Or is that 1984?) I got most of my speeding out of my system when doing a European Delivery. It's nice to be able to go 180 mph and not be thinking about police when you SHOULD be focusing upon the road ahead. If you live out east, the higher congestion dictates much higher restrictions, plus American drivers are simply not trained and tuned to high speed highway driving. They might spill their coffee!

I don't know, it seems safer driving fast than driving slow in a pack of moronic drivers that are distracted by cell phones, eating food, and whatever else.... Oops, did I say that? Anyone else know what I mean?

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Absolutely, my gas pedal has been my get-to-safety pedal on more than one occasion.

I think the car should be considered when these "general laws" are put in place... I mean if someone is in an SUV or a 72 Pinto doing 100 they are clearly a danger to everything around them. if someone pops up to 100 for 10 seconds in a sports car and is back down, there really is limited risk because the car is set up for these conditions. (unlike an SUV with HUGE tires and a really high CG) I hope to never be in those shoes, but I agree... its pretty stupid to have these laws and some states clearly have way to tight of restrictions on poeple......

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+1... I've been driving the 5 to 73 to 405 route a lot lately (the wife's fancy doctors seem to congregate around Marina Del Ray...) My observation is that everyone pretty much ignores the cellphone law now... they were pretty good when it started last summer, but these days they're all back on the phone again... Back in the day, I dated a girl from Pacific Palisades... I would usually drive her on her occasional weekend visits home... the incentive for me driving her was the "whatever"... and the stretch along Camp Pendleton was never quite long enough... or maybe I was just driving too fast? Is that what you meant??? Rudy

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Hey Rudy, you weren't driving too fast, you were just being efficient with your time (and your girl, ha). And I don't know anything about triple-digit speeds runs along the Camp Pendleton route when it's wide open in the early morning hours.

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Well you know the area - hard to REALLY enjoy a happy ending once you get into San Clemente... And if you don't know about triple-digit speeds then I shouldn't ask... But, on that particular stretch, I "accidently" eased into triple digits on my maiden voyage home with the car (I bought it from EuroCar in Costa Mesa)... I remember that the engine didn't sound that happy at 70... rather than looking at the speedo, I slowly kicked it up until the engine "sung a little sweeter"... which was on the wrong side of 100... I've since gotten used to what 70 mph sounds like... Fortunately that stretch of 5 leaves lots of room for you to play a little bit... Rudy

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I agree 100%

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My solution for when I'm king.... Each vehicle is assigned on eof 3 ratings based on it's capabilities and must be inspected to ensure it is maintained sufficiently. Each driver is tested for driving capabilities every 5 years (more frequently for younger and older drivers) and assigned 1 of 3 capability ratings. The combination of driver and vehicle capabilities determines how much over the posted limit you can legally drive (only where the posted limit is 55 or greater). A colored/numbered sticker on the license plate makes it easy for a following officer to determine the rating. However, this applies only to the primary driver of the car. Driving an unfamiliar car or one you share with your wife? You are held to the lowest-level driver for that vehicle. Want to go faster? Get your wife to drive better and achieve a higher rating. Busted driving your level in an unfamiliar car? You've just been dropped a capability level and heavily fined. For example: Highly- capable car and highly-capable driver (e.g. DE instructor-level) = 15 over Moderately-capable car and highly-capable driver = 10 over Moderately-capable driver and highly-capable car = 10 over Moderately capable car and driver = 5 over Low capability car or driver = posted speed limit

I vote jerome951 King for setting road speed limits! Keep all the Escalades/Yukons/Expeditions/Range Rovers/etc limited to 75MPH in the right lane (mandatory, otherwise $1500 reckless sports car blocking fine), let our 996s go 100MPH! Set our Porsches free!

I think the chances of any sort of meritocracy based system being endorsed by the current executive or legislative branches of our government are slim to none. I'm for pay to play, using proven TUV rules whenever possible. I personally would pay an extra 1000 or 2000 or 3000 dollars a year, sign tort waivers or limitation agreements, and take any proscribed battery of aptitude and physical tests for a license to drive at 150 miles an hour on major highways, just convert the HOV lanes to Autobahn rules fast lanes. - Revenue from license fees distributed to local governments for roadwork and shoring up their sagging muni budgets would more than offset lost ticket revenue and preserve the yield and rating on their bonds. - Maintain a list of vehicles already certified for high speed operation (*cough* TUV *cough*). Between that and tort waivers, offsets increased injury costs that nanny staters will forecast. Or create an enhanced inspection/readiness process which all vehicles are eligible for, more revenue for the states. - Enforce with mandatory transponders ala high speed EZ pass (I understand existing EZpass tech works up to 200+mph anyway, so new new investment in technology). Make the fine for driving through without a transponder really, really punitive, like 3K - I might even agree to a breathalyzer lock required to activate the transponder. I personally believe it would self finance, and serve to reduce congestion at least as well as the HOV system (which many studies indicate makes traffic worse when an existing lane is repurposed and no new lane is added). Additionally, municipalities would save revenue by requiring fewer LEOs per speeding ticket and a lower burden on their courts. LEOs can then, I don't know, stop crime. Insurers would be able to handle it because the tort waivers or limitations would reduce punitive damages from their worst wrecks. And technically if they wanted to collude and profiteer they could raise our premiums. Schumer, if you're reading this, get cracking! Your constituents will love the higher revenue and lower costs of administration, and hey you can sell it as a TAX on the RICH, which is selling like hotcakes right now. Heck the Operation New New Deal American Freedom Rescue plan is supposed to fund shovel ready infrastructure projects right? Here's one that might actually repay the loan!

I've been caught a couple of times at speeds greater than 100 but never by a Trooper though.

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Isn't that pretty much what it already costs annually to drive 150mph in most states? It's simply NOT SAFE to drive this fast on US highways, though. US drivers aren't like germans; they don't have the lane discipline required to allow for high disparities in speed. We either have to raise the limit for everyone (and to a limit that every car can drive), or we can raise it for no-one. And that's assuming we can even that much past the deep green lobby who would lower speed limits to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. I tell you what, though, I would LOVE to see limited-access HOV lanes raised to high-speed zones with high minimum speed limits

Wow, so I think I feel be a little out of place here to admit that I hit deep triple digits just about every single day, even if only for a mile or two on my DD to/from work in the SF Bay Area. I stick to the fast lane and don't consider it the least bit risky if I stay in my lane and see daylight ahead of me while cranking it up to 130(+?). My cruising speed is much lower, but still about 95ish. I have zero tickets (knock on wood) and am a hawk on things like upcoming on ramps & shoulders. I can also recognize several types of police vehicle taillight configurations from a good distance. I never use any type of phone, navigation device, food/drink, nor do I monkey with the AC or anything else. If I'm driving, that's ALL I'm doing, and I stay very focused. Am I alone or do others do this too?

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Why does VA have to be a cut above the rest when it comes to being <insert fav expletive> about speeding

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I know plenty of people in the bay area that do it! but impossible in LA or NY to do this even remotely regularly. In fact, I'd say impossible almost anywhere else near a major city during the day, you guys just have some unique layouts, really well done roads, and really lax enforcement. If it's any comfort, I've gone real, real fast in both a 996, a dozen sedans and rental cars and on bikes on runs from greater half moon bay and palo alto to SFO area and I've never been anywhere in the US with a higher average speed on the freeway than that whole stretch from SFO to SJC, average 95 does not startle me at all up there. Sometimes I've felt like I was in heavy, heavy traffic in that area, I look down an I'm going 50 or 60, just something about the way the roads are marked! But it can get wacky, especially on the foggy mountain roads and in the forest areas. One day I will tell the story of passing the wreck of a McLaren F1 up there coming down some roads up in Ben Lomond or Redwood City, or the biker I met who fell and got dragged a quarter mile on the 1 past miramar

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you are not alone.

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Oh I think you'll find that if you drove 150 mph one time and were caught in most states, it would cost you at least 10K between your criminal defense & fines, and untold lost revenue since you can't conduct business in the pokey. Assuming they don't try you for attempted vehicular manslaughter! Then your insurance premium increase will nicely annuitize the balance of your woes. And I think there are enough folks who probably would pay 10K for a real 150 mph pipe dream system just to skip the airport. That is basically a a little under the cost of two first class ual p.s. round trip NY to LA tickets. People who fly a lot of short haul, NY to Boston/DC or even longer NY to Atlanta or NY to Chicago, I mean this would be a viable alternative. While I like taking the train on shorter runs like this, then you show up and you stll have to rent a terrible, terrible car, which in a car city like the aforementioned, is a necessity. I agree also that it might not be autobahn safe at 150 as is, which is why everyone who wants access would need to submit to lots of testing and training and inspection. Most US highways are so terribly maintained that going 100 feels like you could catch air on some of the broken pavement, bumps, holes and gaps, but money is supposed to be pouring into the highway system right now anyway from WPA 2.0, so a little direction might be nice! You could handle merging by enforcing left lane for passing only rules by camera at exit points, and just like HOV lanes you would have fewer opportunities to exit. But you need to start with a high number like 150, since your greenies will lobby it down anyway. Solution: bribe them with nice fat funding for windmills from the revenue from the system. The other solutions, which have been panned very badly in the media despite some success during heavy traffic, are the express toll roads (there's the 91 in SoCal which is the one that gets the most press). The pricepoint is too low and so is the minimum speed limit, but more than anything the public objects to distinct infrastructure being built for "the rich", and in SoCal, where driving is more a right than a privilege in the public mind, the general public detest having to pay a toll for anything. This whole diatribe is actually a bit farcical, long story short I was stuck in an airport lounge with a then-obscure legislator who will now have to go unnamed, and had a candid discussion about, among other things, how ridiculous the whole speed limit system is. I hatched this plan on a cocktail napkin, and we both agreed it would probably pencil out, but because of the deteriorating infrastructure and no moneys flowing toward things like roads and bridges, and would never work unless a Macquarie or some other private decided to finance some sort of privatization, which to that date had only occurred on finite assets like A tunnel or A single highway or A bridge, never a whole system. Now that the likelihood of road privatization is less than zero - ever, and the likelihood of infinity dollars flowing into boondoggle projects is rather high presently, I figured I'd try out the old saw!

Does PCA do any political lobbying? Speed limit reform (by which I mean legalizing the speeds most people drive at already and eliminating bull**** laws like VA does) seems like something the PCA members would all stand behind and support.

My take on this is "know when and where". In my case I like to go up a 2 mile hill (on an interstate) with 3 lanes near my house on an early Sunday morning. Let's just say that the road is quite empty.