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Originally Posted by masraum
I suspect it depends upon where you are. I assume police in those countries treat kph like our cops treat mph. You're probably pretty unlikely to get a ticket for 6mph over in the US, but maybe if you're in a 35mph zone or it's the end of the month and the cop hasn't met his quota. It can happen. I've heard of folks getting pulled over for less. In those cases, I'm assuming the cop wants to pull over a specific person and is "looking for a reason".
I have very little experience with speed cameras.
Speeding tickets in my experience don't come cheap. In my little local town, a speeding ticket fine starts at $220 (0-10mph over) and goes up from there.
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Nah, it's a compliance thing, same as here.
They give you the free kmh's on the grounds that if you are good obedient citizen you would be within that tolerance - since you are over their generous wiggle room, you are now a miscreant who is deliberately flaunting their most excellent laws.
If were a Dutch ticket, you could argue till the cows come home and you'd still pay the fine - now with added court costs - on the grounds that you were obviously deliberately speeding over a generous tolerance.
The Dutch police - like the humans - will rarely pull you over for speed, they leave that to the cameras, the humans are generally looking for stupid behaviour like passing on the right, hogging the left lane, diving to an exit lane etc.
Don't do dumb **** and don't whiz past them at 40 over the limit and they will leave you alone.
I suspect the Swiss have decided what is safe for that stretch of road and that's the deal. You were over, pay the damned fine and learn your lesson.
D.