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Oh buddy, I hate "high rate of speed" so much. Speed is already a rate of travel. This is just adding words and blather in an attempt to sound official, and n
by sk5t 7y ago
Oh buddy, I hate "high rate of speed" so much. Speed is already a rate of travel. This is just adding words and blather in an attempt to sound official, and not too far from "utilize" in place of "use," or "methodology" in place of "system." Or "vehicle" for "car."
- friendlybus 7y agoMethodology and system are two separate ideas.
- philwelch 7y ago"Vehicle" is a little more generic. It could be a truck. Is a truck a car? I suspect "vehicle" (and perhaps even "high rate of speed") might be frequently used by law enforcement because those are the same terms used in the statutory laws they are enforcing.
- Spooky23 7y agoThey talk like that to sound factual and remove ambiguity in a legal sense. If you say “he was driving too fast”, “or he was speeding” that’s potentially a subjective assessment.
- FpUser 7y agoWhat on earth make high rate non objective. Also I am curious why downvotes