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Judge Zaiden will love him.

So, in other words, that fella was just keeping up with the flow of traffic.

Why in the name of God would you say you were at a motorsport event of any sort after being caught speeding

Well if you believe the rsa in their ramblings it doesn't matter.

But in actual fact 150 ain't fast, especially not on a euro standard motorway, with excellent weather conditions and low traffic volume.

Nothing but fish, barrels and shotguns out there.

The speed limit on motorways hasn't suddenly changed in the last week or so, the driver was caught doing 150 kph on a road with a speed limit of 120 kph, right or wrong that's the speed limit on the road.

Nobody has a gun to your head forcing you to speed, equally nobody here is an angel and we all break the speed limit at times, it's a risk you take. Just have to suck it up if you get caught. Some people just prefer to blame the system, the politicians, the weather or anybody else really.

If you feel fish are being shot in a barrel then don't be that fish.

120kph to 150kph is 56% more kinetic energy.

By the time you've converted that 56% into heat via the brakes and slowed to 120kph, the car that was doing doing 120kph is now closer to 30kph. (That's assuming that the braking effect is linear which I know it's not, but on the other hand it's also not taking into account reaction time, brake fade, or anything else.)

150kph isn't crazy fast, but it's quite a bit faster than most others are doing, and is an awful lot more energy to control.

Kevin Irving wrote: »

120kph to 150kph is 56% more kinetic energy.

By the time you've converted that 56% into heat via the brakes and slowed to 120kph, the car that was doing doing 120kph is now closer to 30kph. (That's assuming that the braking effect is linear which I know it's not, but on the other hand it's also not taking into account reaction time, brake fade, or anything else.)

150kph isn't crazy fast, but it's quite a bit faster than most others are doing, and is an awful lot more energy to control.

I'm not condoning doing 150kph, anyone who does it should know the consequence of getting caught etc..

but, you can't really ever talk about kinetic energy or another vehicle or this or that or the other. If these things were based on that, I should be allowed do 300kph on a motorbike and a truck driver should only be allowed do 80kph.

or a cheap car shouldn't be able to go as fast as a ferrari which has 10x better brakes...

two identical cars one braking from 120 and the other from 150, ok.

what about someone who barely scrapes the nct every year doing 120kph in their car rattling along, vs someone in an audi R8 doing 150. I know which I'd rather have emergency braking behind me.

Speed and braking are not linear though. It takes huge amounts of extra power to accelerate at higher speeds. Hence why a Veyron needs 1000bhp to get those extra 30-40 mph above what a 600bhp car would do. More relevant here is the lack of ability to react/handle a situation at those higher speeds.

Anyway off point.. yes suck it up. Some speeding fines are harsher than others given time, location etc, but the law is the law. I got a fpn for 55k in a 50 zone in Bunclody recently, yeah I was annoyed, but now I have 80 less moneys and 3 points. Move on.