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  • The only threshold that will automatically get you a reckless driving violation in CA is over 100 mph

    Texas has no defined speed threshold

    Alabama, where I lived previously on the east coast, has no defined threshold

    The guideline for officers in CO is to consider a reckless driving ticket at 26 over the limit and above

    I could keep searching individual states but I guess my point is there are many states where 20 over is pretty much a common thing among drivers and not typically punishable with a reckless driving charge. I haven’t spent much time in the northeast, perhaps things are different there.


  • Lol no, you have to be going something like double the speed limit most places to get arrested

    You might get a ticket, but almost any judge will throw the ticket out if they write you up for going 5-10 over. Some places will write the ticket anyways in the hopes of making some extra revenue, but generally speaking it’s not a ticket that is worth writing because it’s so easy to get tossed out.


  • What part of the country are you from? IME that’s far from universal. I have gotten pulled for 20+ over in multiple states and it’s often just a warning, if I do get ticketed it’s just a ticket and that’s the end of it:

    When I had first gotten my license in CA I got pulled over while doing 105-110 in a 65 mph zone. The cop wrote it up for 99 mph, which was a simple speeding ticket without the option for traffic school. I went to court and the judge knocked it down to a <$200 ticket with traffic school so I didn’t get any points on my record.

    85 mph in a 65 is normal in a ton of states, they’d be they’d be writing up people for reckless driving in every other traffic stop if 20 over were the threshold.








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    This, and cultural diffusion is a normal part of human society. It has been for countless thousands of years.

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