xxkid123
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Not a driver, but my dad is always 10mph faster than the speed limit (although it's usually in the fast lane). I don't think drivers should be warned, and I would somewhat consider it impeding a policeman. I dunno. But then again, it's your own stupid fault for not noticing the speed trap in the first place. If you're driving fast and you consistently notice speed traps, then hell, maybe you are a semi careful driver (or darn lucky). If you can't notice them while driving fast, then maybe you aren't paying close enough attention to the road... Usually the highways have a grass strip/divider in between the directions, so that a cop can be behind a bend or near a ditch, harder to see, but not near impossible. On the other hand, in China speed traps are pretty comical. Usually cars will drive at around 80kmh, when the legal limit is 70 (on a Shanghai highway at least). There are radar stations every amount of kilometers. There's always a radar sign a few hundred meters in front of it, so drivers will guess at where the radar station is and slow down....to a crawl. It's ridiculous because they'll go down to walking pace for a brief moment, before rapidly speeding up again. Then again, Chinese roads are very dangerous. Traffic rules are mostly ignored, and going at 80kmh you'll have bumper to bumper (around a meter in between cars) traffic on extremely crowded highways. scares the nuts out of me when I sit in the front row of seats on a bus. On a side note, on a really crowded Beijing highway two kids who just graduated high school with really good scores went on a race during rush hour, that aforementioned 80kmh traffic (New York and DC got nothing...), only with even less distance between bumpers (hairbreadths). Note that in China testing and graduating with very good scores is crucial. For a month they'll have endless testing, most of them complete bullS trick questions. If they do poorly then in China they have little chance of getting even a mediocre job, there's such a massive population that not everyone is needed, and seniors and experienced people are more likely to be hired. Likewise, colleges are extremely competitive and hard to get into. Doing even slightly poorly may mean you'll be stuck the rest of your life doing very piss poor jobs (few workers rights), maybe 16 hours a day, everyday on a back breaking assembly line. When they graduate with good scores, it's very relieving. Anyways, they were caught by police, and sentenced to a month of jail. As soon as they were released they were immediately employed by a fairly prestigious racing company to be racecar drivers. Lucky son of a gun.
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