Man of Honour
But even then you can't be convicted in court?
Yes you could.
But even then you can't be convicted in court?
I can't find the article but here is a quote from 'Mr Loophole' ....
“The first thing is the legal principle called de minimis, which means it’s so slight that it’s not really infringing the law,” he said. “At 51mph, 52mph [on a 50mph road], you are certainly de minimis. It would be an enormous waste of taxpayers’ money to pursue this type of very trivial prosecution.”
So I guess they could take it to court will you would most likely get off with it.
Am I being dumb or do you mean 46? I can't tell
If they note that you are being fined for going 51 in a 50, they're not being pedantic over by 1kmh as you were actually going 56kmh. They take off the 5 from your actual speed before they write your ticket for the lower amount.
I'm quite sure it's not legally possible to get done for 31 in a 30 zone there is a law which prevents this because it's not possible to enforce the exact speed limit or some other laws which would make the enforcement more dangerous than the law itself i.e constantly looking at the speedo and not the road.
Obviously not being a lawyer I can't prove this LMAO but I'm sure it exists.
Nope of course you can get done doing 31 in a 30 if they can prove beyond reasonable doubt you were exceeding the speed limit.... this +10% IS a fallacy (I know about that because I've been on a speed awareness course recently but your speedo will always be calibrated so if your speedo shows 35 you will be doing about 30) but you will be going slower than you think you are. However as said above very rarely do they prosecute unless you are going faster than the speed limit by a margin. I have been done for 35 in a 30 but that's 12.5%+ than the speed limit whichever way you spin it. Same as you have never really got any grace period for taxing or MOT'ing your car but in practice some leeway is there
You can recalibrate a speedo easily with VCDS on VW group cars. There is a correction factor 100% +/- 15% iirc so it can work either way. So what happens if someone sells a car with a speedo that's out and you never knew you were speeding?