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Tickets are now on sale for the 2012 U.S. Grand Prix to be held at the rapidly-forming Circuit of the Americas in Austin this November. Sort of. Right now you can get on the wait list to buy the nice tickets. More »
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Police in Switzerland say a 37-year-old Swedish man faces $1 million fine for taking his black Mercedes SLS AMG up to 180 mph. His excuse? Faulty speedometer, which was impounded with the rest of the car. (H/T to everyone!) [BBC] More »
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The yearly traffic crackdown by police across Minnesota tapped a red Corvette owner in rural Wadena County, whose passenger ratted out the driver for doing 178 mph. Maybe Prince ran out of pancakes? (Hat tip to Eric!) [Minneapolis Star-Tribune] More »
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A man in Medinah, Illinois was recently arrested by police after wiping his rear end with a parking ticket and stuffing it into a city payment box. Nice in theory, not reality. Eww. [Daily Herald] More »
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Police in Glendale, California sent an officer dressed as a scary pedo-bunny into traffic and ticketed anyone not yielding to it/him. If we saw it/him on the road we'd hit the gas too. [Glendale News Press via Traffic] More »
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Ever hit the highway and notice that people drive differently? Some states haul more ass than others. Here's DriverSide.com's list of the ten speediest states based on tickets issued per capita. —Ed. More »
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A nationwide study examining police ticket data across the United States has revealed one very important list — which cars don't get tickets. We've broken down the list below. More »
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Remember self-described social media evangelist Philip Odegard's claimed 210+ MPH Bugatti Veyron ticket? The California Highway Patrol now claims he made it up. But not before our story ended up on last night's episode of Top Gear. More »
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Success was had on Wednesday in the fight against robotic roadway policing, the harbinger of Skynet, when a small Arizona county struck down their failing speed camera van program. More »
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A study of traffic tickets revealing the most and least ticketed vehicles reinforces obvious stereotypes: Hummer owners are arrogant, self-centered and over-indulgent, while drivers of Buick Park Avenues appear to have no discernible pulse. More »
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A police officer in Warren, Michigan has gotten himself caught in the crosshairs of the local television investigators for reaping $21,562 in overtime, partially due to the court time he had to put in for the 2,400 tickets he wrote. According to the investigators, Officer David Kanapsky spends a lot of time in court due to tickets he he writes that are contested, especially related to a certain stop sign the city has now replaced with a yield sign. The implication is that he's writing the tickets in order to get the overtime so that he can boost his salary above $80,000. More »
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LeBron James kicked off his 23rd birthday by making sure his custom plated Mercedes ("KNG OF AK") could hit the century mark on Ohio's Interstate 71 at two in the morning. It could, and state troopers were there to confirm it. The kajillionaire Cavs forward had his lawyer show up to court the other day and plead not guilty to the charges from the December 30th incident. Based on the recent string of celebrity run-ins with the law, we'll assume the judge in the case will ask Lebron for an autographed basketball then scold the officers for being mean to the innocent young man. His Lebrogative indeed.[via Ohio.com] More »
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[Who knew the 10th amendment to the US Constitution would create the state-by-state patchwork quilt of driving laws we've got? Well, the founders did — despite their lack of cars. Fear not, interstate drivers, we here at Jalopnik have sorted through the red tape to bring you detailed guides to driving rules; everything from teenage driving, cell phone use, open containers, dehorsing and lemon laws. These are the Rules of the Road.] Previously, we provided a list of the maximum speed limit laws by state. This let you know where it would be possible to drive legally more than 70 mph on a two-lane road (thank you Texas Legislature). This week, we focus on actual enforcement by looking at how often states ticket their speeding citizens and how much those tickets may cost. More »
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In Britain, no one is above the law... at least not if there is visual evidence when they get caught breaking it. Meredydd Hughes, chief of the South Yorkshire police, found this out the hard way when his Audi was busted by a traffic camera for doing 90 mph in a 60 mph zone. The constable, a former chair of roads policing for the Association of Chief Police Officer, probably should have known where the traffic camera was. More »
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Our fraternal site that likes gadgets the way we love cars (i.e. more than girls) is reporting that a new GPS-powered mirror will help you avoid traffic cameras. The new GPS mirror – creatively called the "GPSmirror" – will also store and alert you to the location of red light cameras, construction zones, and hooker radar hot spots. The alerts can be beeps, flashes or actual spoken words. We're imagining, "Hey! Slow down, rummy." Maybe that last bit is just us... The cost? About three hundred bones. And, considering our last ticket set us back to the tune of $768 (long story), this might not be the worst investment you could make. – Jonny Lieberman More »
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