• Etterra@discuss.online
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    41 minutes ago

    I mean there’s no street legal car in the world that can go 420 so you’d probably just get that ticket thrown out. Still have to pay the court cost though which is bullshit.

  • doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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    10 hours ago

    Where I live, the highway speed limits are 65 and State patrol are always sitting near my house, often ticketing people for as little as 70. I set my cruise at 69. It’s nice.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      17 hours ago

      You think. There was an infamous case in Hungary where someone was cited for allegedly going 260 kmh in downtown Budapest. In an old Ford Transit van. While reversing.

      The police simply refused to entertain the idea that someone knocked the camera and it made a bad read.

      They had to close off the street and demonstrate that the van couldn’t get to 260 in reverse.

      The most memorable thing of the whole case was the head of the police saying with a straight face “Hungarian traffic laws are not enforced according to the laws of physics”, as part of the prosecution argument.

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    1 day ago

    Cool cops put down 420. It isn’t about speed, it is about weed.

    (or did everyone already realize that?)

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    2 days ago

    Lmao ain’t no commercial car in existence that can go 420mph. Cop saved you a ticket if you’re not an idiot about things.

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        10 hours ago

        No, terminal velocity is somewhere around 110mph I think. Unless you’re talking about sending it into space.

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          10 hours ago

          To be fair, I did say “high enough.” Get it beyond the atmosphere and it’ll easily hit 420mph. Just know there won’t really be anything left for your insurance company to appraise.

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            5 hours ago

            I caught that and I tried to acknowledge it. But I think the implied part was that vehicles won’t go that fast under their own power.

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              4 hours ago

              I think the implied part was that vehicles won’t go that fast under their own power.

              Sure, that’s why what I said was funny. 😉

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              1 day ago

              Evil Kanieval the stuntman figured out the terminal velocity of a human to be around 80 mph or so I believe, i imagine a car would be same or less, although it would probably fall engine side first?

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            Damn, there goes my pride in my reading comprehension skills. Still pretty dang close when all you have to do is change ‘no commercially available car’ to ‘no reasonably available car’.

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            If they were going that fast, they wouldn’t be getting a simple citation that could be resolved in traffic court, that’s straight to jail levels of recklessness…

            • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              1 day ago

              that’s faster than most helicopters, if they’ve got a long enough straight, they’re getting away lol

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                10 hours ago

                If they’ve got the gas for it.

                A Bugatti Chiron can do 440km/h. If the 100 litre tank was filled at the beginning, then the car will travel for 9 minutes at top speed before running out of gas.

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                  3 hours ago

                  good point

                  i guess if I’ve got Bugatti money I’ve probably got money for a helicopter of my own, why the hell am I going 440kph in traffic lmao

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        Neither, lmao. Sometimes a good discussion can be had by simply following through on silly premises.

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    2 days ago

    You in court: Because i was blazin bitches!!!(sticking tongue out, hands wide and making finger gestures)

    Judge (looking at you weird): … five years no parol … NEXT!