Police in Japan: we just got pulled over for going 109km/h in an 80 zone. The policeman started out by apologizing, was extremely nice, asked for the driver to step out to take care of it, and once everything was done directed us back into traffic with a baton and bowed.
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I don’t fully understand speed limits in Japan. They seem to be very low and largely unenforced (I think highways maybe the exception).
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I'd think that's universally true. It's definitely true in the US as well. I've heard stories of people in Cali getting traffic obstruction tickets for going "only" 15 over.
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So for a cluster of 100 cars going ~7km/h over limit they issue 100 tickets?
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That is how speed cameras work, yes.
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That seems stupidly lucrative... to the tune of hundreds of thousands an *hour* if you pick the right spot. And they've been around for a while. Is there some weird court case in the US that made them unenforceable or something?
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People learn pretty quick not to speed in countries with speed cameras. Where the cameras are, anyway.
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