What's The Worst Automotive Law?
Legislators often have trouble writing laws about simple concepts like the licensing of barbers. Give them something as complex as an automobile and watch out! What's the worst automotive law?
As a society we've come to accept certain norms about the cat-and-mouse game of speeding. The police are allowed to hide and zap us with various high energy beams and we're allowed to carry (in most places) detectors to intercept them. If we zoom past one above the speed limit and they catch us before we can slow down we get a ticket. It's the way it is. But the Ohio law about speeding has been interpreted by their Supreme Court to mean any officer can issue a ticked based on a "visual estimate." Seriously? Not only is this a violation of the social driver's contract, it's ridiculous and arbitrary and almost impossible to disprove.
Bad law. Bad, bad, bad law. No good law. Horrible law. Terrible. We're sure you can do worse.
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