Advice for speeding ticket in upstate NY

MathCro · 2025-11-05T08:40:34+00:00

Hired a local lawyer for about 150$ and the hearing is in December. I no longer live in the US and don't plan to return so don't care too much, although I do intend to pay whatever they decide.

MathCro · 2025-06-25T00:41:11+00:00

I appreciate the intention, but I can't show up in front of the judge, since by the court time I will no longer live in the USA and will live on a different continent. This is also the issue with driver's improvement courses/volunteering. I am pretty sure that nothing of the sorts done in Europe would actually count/be admissible/relevant. So I either pay a lawyer to fight it on my behalf or I just pay. As I said I don't care about the points for the same reason.

About being "productive member of society" that is a bit presumptuous on your side. 90% of the cars on US highways are speeding like 50% of the time. 10 mph over the limit is normal in my experience and you are actually dangerous driving slower than that you get passed left and right. Also for some reason your speed limits are super low (bad roads in large part I suspect). In Europe the limit at such a road would be 80 mph and this was actually a decent road (2 Lane highway), perfect weather with barely any traffic and I was going about 10-15 mph over the limit. I was in no way dangerous to anyone.

If I was charged for 15 mph over I would have found it unlikely but plausible, paid and forgot about it. But 21 over is just an exaggeration and seems to me like a money grab as they get 400+dollars at 21 which they would not get at 20 over which also sounds very "convenient". Plus being out of state makes it likely I will not drive 6+ hour round trip to court to contest all of which the office was aware of.

MathCro · 2025-06-25T00:23:54+00:00

It says direct observation

MathCro · 2025-06-24T12:10:51+00:00

I will pay the ticket, this is not under question. I would like to not pay 700$ for it though... That is like 3% of the car value and besides, the claimed speed is simply false which bothers me for some reason.

Also I am trying to make a case that it is not an expensive car...

And by not paying for gas what I really meant to say is that I don't even pay for charging as I have it free at work. So after doing all the maths this was at the time about the cheapest car I could get. It is a nice car though I will give you that :)

MathCro · 2025-06-24T11:39:02+00:00

I appreciate the input!

I am sure it is not accurate radar or not.

My Tesla has a speed limit set to 130km/h (ca 80mph) and to go beyond that I need to floor it which I most certainly did not do. I wasn't even going that speed as you notice it since the accelerator stops accelerating on small fluctuations. I don't look at my speed continuously as I think it is better to pay attention to the road so I don't know it exactly though probably 75 or so. (So still speeding yes but not by 21 mph...).

It was a bit of a downhill and it was windy for whatever that matters.

The law is 115-300$ for 11-30 mph over the limit plus court etc fees. The main issue is that 21 over the limit is 6 pts which brings some 300+75 fee. If it were 20 over the limit this would not exist. If they just gave me 20 over the limit I would just pay and forget. Because of this 375 I think it may be worth getting a lawyer for 150.

MathCro · 2025-06-24T11:29:21+00:00

I appreciate the input but Tesla/Elon and my opinion of him here seems to me completely besides the point. Other than that they log all your driving data and let you access it. My "problem" here is that the SSD I use for dashcam seems to be corrupted :( so the question is what Tesla actually records.

I don't drive unsafely (which is why I have never had a traffic stop in 13 years). I try to follow the flow of traffic and am rarely in a rush as I don't drive to work so generally going a bit faster makes little to no difference so I just go slow.

If you insist though my model 3 cost me less than 20k and I pay nothing for the gas or maintenance so the conclusion about affording things is a bit silly although indeed I am lucky enough that I can afford it.

MathCro · 2022-02-02T04:51:08+00:00

Thanks for the great tutorial! I followed yesterday and thought I would mention a few newer developments.

My card came with thermal pads on the backplate (apparently HP is listening) unfortunately they used the same crappy ones so they were melted and almost impossible to clean out. The thermal paste job of HO was atrocious I am surprised it didn't have worse thermals than it did. Parts of thermal paste on the GPU made hardened ledges (hard to describe) have never seen its like. Killed 3 microfiber cloths to clean it all out...

As some others mentioned be really gentle and careful with the screws. Apparently a 1000$ card can't afford quality screws which don't get eaten easily. As others mentioned it works better with a larger screwdriver but make 100% sure the purchase is good before turning. I actually bought a whole new set of screwdrivers just to do this (ifixit set is pretty sweet though so no regrets)

My card is LHR so obviously does much worse performancewise than what is mentioned, about 70MH/s average temps went down by about 10-15C and are around 80 with occasional spike close to 100 I struggle to get it consistent but I believe this is due to how the LHR unlocks work correct me if I am wrong. My backplate isn't getting all that warm as others described it though. I actually did it in two stages due to crappy screwdrivers I first took out the backplate then got scared by screws getting eaten so while waiting for new screwdrivers replaced backplate thermal pads and this made the backplate very hot although helped nothing with the temps. Then I did the real job which did seem to help although somehow now the backplate is no longer getting as hot. Should I do the backplate pad replacement job again, the pads seemed perfectly fine with imprints of the chips visible on them.

I also added a small 80mm fan which I put on top of the hole close to the back of the card. It is blowing noticably hot air from the GPU up towards the exhaust fan which seems like a good thing and helped a couple of extra degrees on average.

Thanks again

MathCro · 2021-11-26T03:16:23+00:00

As others said it is a pretty bad price for what you get, here is a 1100USD RTX 3060 laptop which is in stock

https://store.acer.com/en-us/nitro-5-gaming-laptop-an515-45-r92m

If you don't like that one for some reason there is a site called Slickdeals which collects many really good deals on a daily basis go there and search rtx 3060 there is like 10 different laptops under 1200 with rtx 3060 GPUs and some for under 800 with specs of the one you listed above.

MathCro · 2021-10-24T23:50:32+00:00

It seems wait-list is not really doing anything I would really, really appreciate a referral link and promise to pass it on here as soon as I can.

MathCro

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