I just got pulled over for doing 32 in a 30

You need to go to Spec Savers.

And use your reading glasses with your car manual.

There are large round speed limit signs.

There are control stalks and buttons on/around the steering wheel for speed limiter, and cruise control, that specifically maintain speed for drivers who need help with that.

Sheer laziness

Many years ago, my SIL was a pedestrian when she was knocked over by a driver who dropped something in the footwell of his car and reached down to retrieve it, swerving onto the pavement in the process.

The driver was doing 36mph in a built-up area. The coroner said if he had been doing 30mph, my SIL the likelihood was that she would have survived her (fatal) injuries.

You can't possibly know what it was showing at the time they actually measured it unless you know the precise moment and were happening to be looking at it at that moment, which you don't; or unless you are staring at your speedo all the time instead of looking at the road. If it genuinely said 32 at that moment, then you were not speeding unless your speedo is set wrong, so why did they stop you? Did they show you the reading?

Capybara

It doesn’t matter what your speedo said; his speed measurement instrumentation will be more accurate.

And all he did was warn you, he didn’t give you a ticket.

Cat

But he didn't tick a box because he didn't issue a ticket.

I wish my reach was that length; I have problems reaching far enough to close car doors sometimes.... 😊

Communication

HTH

How did the police clock you? They won't be using an adjusted speed, they'll be measuring your actual speed, so it's more likely you were doing 32 and your speedo was showing 34-37

How many have said that in this thread?

Yeh traffic cops should be out catching serial killers.

He didnt hit any targets by talking to her.

Sheep

Lazy policeman ticking an easy box to hit his monthly target while avoiding real police work.

Yeh, parking neighbours and speeding always brings lots of traffic 😏

The posters saying that it’s easy not to go over a speed limit or that they’ve never done that are being very, very economical with truth, IMO.

As I’ve said, it’s easy to see how many do go a little over a speed limit by looking at the speed measuring signs. Very many drivers do. I suspect they mostly do slow down after being in the red on one of those signs, so good. But the simple fact is that we all break the limit a little, without any carelessness at all.

I suppose there might be MNers who crawl along at 10mph in a 20 zone or 15mph in a 30 zone. But I doubt it. And posters never seem to accept that 30s turn into 20s frequently, which makes dropping the speed beforehand difficult if you don’t know the road.

It's priced into the premium for the car.

We need to be careful with all this lovely data we are happily hoovering up and storing. The underlying principle of insurance is to spread the risk in a population based on the uncertainty of risk. The more data we have the more we can narrow down the risk and effectively make some people uninsurable (and therefore much more likely to drive without insurance).

The same applies to all these screenings we have these days. A lot of folk will slowly discover they can't get health insurance. Or life insurance.

"Big Data" was a thing that was briefly fought back. However all this "AI" they are so good at is it's bastard son.

I do think it's a bit excessive esp when they don't come out to burglaries etc (in our area anyway). There must be different budgets for policing areas.

They will. We will all end up like the Chinese, permanently watched and controlled and punished for minor misdemeanors while the ruling-class do whatever they like with zero consequences for them.

Where have they said they haven’t ever gone over the limit? I can’t see it in the post you refer to.

Never seen so much rubbish posted about someone who was speeding, didn’t get a ticket, makes a massive fuss about it because they are annoyed.

You've never gone over the speed limit even by 1mph?
Unbelievable.

I can’t believe this is still going. A whole thread about that time I didn’t get a speeding ticket 🤣🤣

Could you try and paint yourself as a victim here any more?

You were just over the speed limit, you got told off, end of. Whether you disagree with where the police expend their energy is neither here nor there, if you hadn't been speeding, it wouldn't have happened. You are not a victim in this circumstance.