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Throw on some error bars to your speedometer and whatever it is the cop is using to track your speed (not a radar gun unless they are state police, in some stat
by Crito 13y ago
Throw on some error bars to your speedometer and whatever it is the cop is using to track your speed (not a radar gun unless they are state police, in some states), and 10mph over is probably reasonably close to the lowest amount they can nail people for without significant false positives.
- VLM 13y agoThe philosophical point of "zero tolerance" is error bars and "reasonable" don't exist.
- Crito 13y agoConsider a draconian zero-tolerance drug policy in an office place, where they can demand a piss test at will. Does "zero tolerance" imply that they will disregard all standard laboratory procedures, disregard the margin of error on the tests, and fire you even if the lab tech points out that the test technically returned a negative since the result was below the margin of error? No, "zero tolerance" isn't, literally interpreted, a statement about how the test will be executed. It is a statement about what happens after the test returns a positive. Of course in practice "zero tolerance" means "we are going to do whatever the hell we want, and then wash our hands of responsibility". That is how "zero tolerance for guns" can turn into "nail this kid to the wall for eating a poptart".