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Chances are very good that at some point or other you will get a speeding ticket at some point in your life. Speed limits are not made to be broken, exactly, but sometimes it certainly seems as if they are. Many of America’s roads and highways have speed limits that are broken so much that it seems to be acceptable as long as the speed is not excessive. It is sort of an unwritten rule that motorists can drive up to five or even ten miles an hour over the posted speed limit without too much worry that they will get pulled over. However, this is highly subjective and varies with every road, speed limit, town, and state.

Speed limits are typically set for safety reasons. Residential neighborhoods would hardly be safe if people were allowed to go as fast as they wanted where children are at play. Speed limits should also be enforced on curvy roads or roads that are prone to have water crossing them causing a lack of traction for motorists. For these reasons, proper law enforcement is expected to maintain the safety of the roads due to the environment that the roads go through. Purely for the sake of safety, motorists that travel above a safe speed limit should be punished in some way and the most obvious way is speeding tickets.

However, there are long stretches of interstate that are not frequently backed up with traffic but simply serve as paths to get from one remote location to another. Considering that most people will drive at a safe speed whether there are speed limits or not, there has always been criticism that the revenue that small towns and municipalities gain from catching speeders is a large part of why they enforce the laws so strictly. While handing out speeding tickets for punishment of breaking a law made for safety is certainly the right thing to do according to anyone, consistently writing speeding tickets for revenue is questionable, if not outright bad, governmental policy.

Of course, there are various ways of getting out of speeding tickets but there is no doubt that the entire process of speed regulation may be flawed or at least skewed on the side of government abuse. However, until reform is made across the entire country, which is an unlikely prospect, the most effective way to effectively beat speeding tickets - even the seemingly lawless ones - is to ensure that you do not get caught.

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