Supergau, a German insurance company, has started offering motorists a policy that will pay their speeding fines (up to 1,000 euros a year). The highway police are less than pleased. Despite the fact that the policy will not cover a crash or any tickets for more than 40 kph over the limit, the police are afraid that such a policy will result in an increasing number of carefree offenders.
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An American company, Rocky Mountain Radar, makes radar “jamming” (scrambling) devices and offers to pay your first ticket if you own one of their qualifying products.
Should law enforcement be worried? Hardly. Both schemes have a loophole that doesn’t protect you from massively speeding. Speeding laws are not really a safety issues (when we’re talking about 0-20 mph over) and only exist as a way of increasing revenue. Consider the town of Waldo, Florida.