I'm sorry dude, but I can speak from experience on this. As someone who had to drive through Marin county daily - where there is a little gap where the speed l

I'm sorry dude, but I can speak from experience on this. As someone who had to drive through Marin county daily - where there is a little gap where the speed limit is 50mph - and the cops pull over people all day long for $$, I can assure you that in many counties, you pretty much have to go to court. They don't just 'give you a ticket' - they give you a summons. Now - technically, you may be able to do a lot of stuff by mail, but it's a legal process. Point being: they don't just 'give you a ticket you can pay' in many counties. Because the court was on my way to work, I would stop in and spend a few hours waiting in line for my 'less than 30 seconds' in front of a judge. That's how it works. It's absolutely nutjobs. I should get the ticket, and pay online with my iphone 20 seconds later. But the greater issue is the degree of enforcement: In the USA - the cops are crazy about ticketing and stopping for small stuff. Cops use tickets as a form of revenue. In most countries, it's not like that. The likelihood of being arbitrarily stopped for some kind of small violation is 10x in California than it is in Ontario - and probably greater if you throw a little bit of racism in there.