" B. A person shall not be guilty of a violation of this section when the device or mechanism in question, at the time of the alleged offense, had no power source and was not readily accessible for use by the driver or any passenger in the vehicle. "
I am pretty sure the most common instrument for speed enforcement now is LIDAR. They use it in Va. You can see the flash as you pass by and know you've been clocked.
3. Today's cars are very expensive to repair, much more so than 10 years ago.
Number 2 is the real reason, number one is the public reason given out. It's like the seemingly ever increasing numbers of
There is some truth in statement 3. With ridiculously overpriced spare parts, and fear of liability if a repaired car fails, it's often literally cheaper to just write a car off that would have been considered easily repairable a few years ago.
Here in Canuckistan, the insurance industry is always under the watchful eye of the provinces. If their overall increase in premiums can’t be justified by an overall increase in claims paid, they risk having the gov’t shut them down and take over as the mandatory insurance provider. This helps ensure a reasonable return on premiums vs. claims and prevents them from blanket increases in rates because they’ve made inferences from the aggregate data they collected, rather than from actual claims.
