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jimlongley wrote:On GPS, I was traveling all the time a couple of years back, a new rental car every week, sometimes even twice a week, and I used my GPS to check Speedometer accuracy, and they were all over the map, from 7 under to 5 over. None farther than that, but it was NEVER right on.

The new ones are accurate within 1m anywhere it has satellite contact, they also show your lat & longitude. I would expect that they are very accurate as long as you don't quickly accelerate/decelerate. Mine also shows what sat you are connected to and where it's located in the sky above, it's not an expensive model either. Big brother has been using them for many years and our military uses them daily, they land helicopters on dimes in sandstorms. All I know is that GPS proof holds up in court. I will try and dig it up later. I'm hitting the bed for now.

I realize that the OP was speeding and admitted to speeding. The issue is with the officer stating he was speeding in excess of what the OP stated his speed at. If i were to receive a ticket and knew darned well I wasn't going that fast I would dispute it and pay the true costs of my ticket(I would never knowingly admit to breaking the law, to each his own). The difference between +10mph and +11 mph in alot of states is huge, It's the difference between a simple fine and getting points on your license + a much larger fine. Those points can add up and also cause your insurance premiums to rise.

In Ohio for example, all of the equipment inside the cruise must be checked annually. My friend got out of a speeding ticket using his GPS (LEO actually hit a large truck that had just passed him and thought it was my friend)and I know someone else who had gotten the case thrown out because of improperly calibrated equipment. I'm not sure of what the state reg's are down here but I know what they are when I just came from. I need to do alot of reading.

gigag04 wrote:

.30calSolution wrote:Also, you can question the equipment he was using and ask to see if the inspection is up to date on the calibration, if it isn't it will be thrown out due to possibly faulty equipment

*HIGHLY* unlikely but technically possible. Also a good officer has your speed visually estimated before he confirms it with a radar/lidar. If you were speeding and choose to lie about in court to get out of the fine - you commit perjury. My conscience won't allow me to do that. I'll take my licks and move on in my life.

If their equipment is not up to date with the state and federal standards it will be tossed out. There's no Ifs ands or buts about it. As far as I know they have to have it checked to make sure it's calibrated correctly yearly, so if they haven't your home free. Unless you live in the state I just came from, Ohio, they can just write you that ticket because it sounded like you were speeding.

If you were using a GPS you should be able to go back and check your past traveled route's and look at the speed at which you were traveling in the area in which he said you were speeding. People have used GPS devices before to be cleared of speeding tickets, the court can't really dispute it. Also, you can question the equipment he was using and ask to see if the inspection is up to date on the calibration, if it isn't it will be thrown out due to possibly faulty equipment. I guess since you paid the ticket there isn't much you can do now. But, in the future if you should come across this you know what you can do.

I'm not sure how Louisiana does it, but a law was recently passed in Ohio that really stinks. An LEO can now write a ticket for a vehicle that sounds like it was speeding...yeah you read it correctly, a ticket for "sounding fast" or "it sounded like he was speeding" and it has nothing to do with your exhaust.