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Eventually they will get caught and then they will pay for a lawyer to get them off and then they will do it again until they crash and kill themselves or someone else. Happens all the time.
Almost everyone speeds, some studies have 80% admitting to it, 26 million people in Texas, 2 thousand state patrol troopers (maybe 700 on duty at any one time), the odds of getting picked up speeding is pretty slim.
Not the end of the world if you get caught either. Pay for the ticket, go to traffic school. Couple hundred bucks. Not much a discentive when your changes of being picked out of the herd of cars going 90 mph is so slim. Or as you say, you always speed and have never gotten a ticket.
i use to be one of the 90mph as my regular speed type guys, then i was pulled over doing 88, 300$ ticket changes things. ill speed but not that fast. ill go to rural areas and crank 140 in my car...but thats rare
Almost everyone speeds, some studies have 80% admitting to it, 26 million people in Texas, 2 thousand state patrol troopers (maybe 700 on duty at any one time), the odds of getting picked up speeding is pretty slim.
You wanna do math? OK. There are 7-million private vehicles in Texas. On a busy road that carries 10,000 care passing a given point every day, those 7-million cars, even if all driven every day, pass 700 points. Seven hundred cops, one at every one of them, which means there is a good chance that you go through a radar beam every day.
Getting caught is a numbers game. If you speed consistently, you'll get caught eventually, with your chances of getting caught increasing with miles driven and the range above the speed limit that you're driving.
I'm a pretty consistent speeder, but I don't do a huge amount of highway driving. I went 14 years without a ticket, from 1999 until earlier this year, when I got busted doing 79 mph in a 55 mph zone.
Keep in mind also that committed speeders often aren't terribly bothered by getting a ticket. It's a cost of doing business. They'll pay the fine, or go to court and seek to get the charge reduced. But whatever the outcome, they'll continue to speed, unless maybe they're in danger of losing their license as a result of getting caught too often.
You wanna do math? OK. There are 7-million private vehicles in Texas. On a busy road that carries 10,000 care passing a given point every day, those 7-million cars, even if all driven every day, pass 700 points. Seven hundred cops, one at every one of them, which means there is a good chance that you go through a radar beam every day.
With over 80,000 miles of state patrolled highways I doubt those 700 troopers are radaring everyone every day. That's only 1 trooper every 114 miles, and we know they won't be spread evenly across the state so most of the state would have many more miles than that per trooper.
I commute 70+ miles every day and don't even see a police officer, of any kind or department, every day much less go through radar every day. Most of the long road trips I take are between WA and ID, about 700 miles each way, many times I haven't seen a trooper (WA/OR/ID) on the entire trip, other times I'll see 3 or 4 but they aren't all sitting with their radar out looking for speeders.
That's not to say I never see them, or I've never been pulled over, but radared every day? Not a chance.
If you want to speed, get a radar detector. My car has one built in... but it's primary usefulness is not for detecting when MY car has been tagged, it's for detecting when a car a couple hundred yards ahead has been tagged, so I can slow down accordingly.
I never speed when it's just me on the road (though I usually drive about 5-10 over, most cops let stuff like that go if they tag you.)
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