Physics Equations Beat Traffic Ticket For California Scientist
April 18th, 2012 at 8:54:23 AM
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April 18th, 2012 at 9:35:07 AM
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Great paper, but one big flaw in the logic:
He slammed on the breaks when he sneezed, decelerating at roughly 10m/s^2. His argument relies on the fact that the only way the officer makes the cited mistake is if he also peeled out after the stop, accelerating at the same 10m/s^2 or similar.
If you're a Toyota Yaris-driving physics professor, and you've just sneezed and slammed on the breaks at a stopsign, do you then burn rubber afterwards? 10 m/s^2 is, as he said, 22.36 mph/s, and the Yaris is a 105hp engine. Can the Yaris even accelerate that fast? 0-22 in one second?
It sounds like he's admitting to reckless driving in an attempt to get out of a speeding ticket...
He slammed on the breaks when he sneezed, decelerating at roughly 10m/s^2. His argument relies on the fact that the only way the officer makes the cited mistake is if he also peeled out after the stop, accelerating at the same 10m/s^2 or similar.
If you're a Toyota Yaris-driving physics professor, and you've just sneezed and slammed on the breaks at a stopsign, do you then burn rubber afterwards? 10 m/s^2 is, as he said, 22.36 mph/s, and the Yaris is a 105hp engine. Can the Yaris even accelerate that fast? 0-22 in one second?
It sounds like he's admitting to reckless driving in an attempt to get out of a speeding ticket...
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April 18th, 2012 at 9:38:43 AM
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For me, I would think the simple fact that there was an obscuring vehicle should be enough to get out of the ticket. He states that there is a vehicle between him and the police officer, and that even though that vehicle was there for only a short period of time, it just happened to be during the time that he came to the stop. But, regardless of how all of that sounds, if there is an intervening object between the police officer and his observance of what your vehicle did or didn't do, then that seems like it should be enough to throw out the ticket.
