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How to beat a traffic ticket
Do you really want to know how to beat a traffic ticket?
It takes no strawman theory or jargon about laws and supreme court rulings from 200 years ago. Nope. Just use physics to scientifically prove that the officer
may
have been mistaken, in his assumption
Physicist avoids $400 traffic ticket with mathematical argument
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches...mitri-krioukov
A physicist from the University of California-San Diego has gotten out of paying a $400 traffic ticket by writing a mathematical paper that convinced a judge that he may not have run a stop sign as charged,
CBS News reported
. Instead, the scientist's four-page paper argues with the help of graphs and equations, a confluence of factors made the police officer think they saw him break the rules of the road when, in fact, he did not.
According to
Wired
, physicist Dmitri Krioukov wrote:
“[In this paper], we show that if a car stops at a stop sign, an observer, e.g., a police officer, located at a certain distance perpendicular to the car trajectory, must have an illusion that the car does not stop, if the following three conditions are satisfied
: (1) The observer measures not the linear but angular speed of the car; (2) The car decelerates and subsequently accelerates relatively fast; and (3) There is a short-time obstruction of the observer’s view of the car by an external object, e.g., another car, at the moment when both cars are near the stop sign.”
In his case,
Krioukov claimed, as he neared the stop sign, he sneezed and braked sharply, CBS News reported.
A car passing at that moment obscured the view of his car from a police officer parked 100 feet away from the stop sign. Because Krioukov accelerated quickly after stopping, it made it seem to the police officer that he had been driving at the same speed all along. Keep in mind, if you try this tactic, but do not have a PHD in physics, the outcome will most likely differ from this man's.
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