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Originally Posted by manaboutown
To put things in perspective, at 29 mph in a golf cart one is exceeding the 20 mph speed limit by 45%. That would be like speeding in a car at 101.5 mph in a 70 mph zone!
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Mathematically that is correct. Logically, I don't agree with you. You're comparing apples and oranges. Do you really see a big difference from a golf cart going 20 mph vs. a golf cart going 22 or 23 mph? I don't. And unless your speedometer and the police radar detector are calibrated exactly perfectly, they can't reasonably expect to measure such a small difference accurately. Automobile speedometers can be off by as much as 10%, so one could expect similar results in a golf cart speedometer. Police radar guns are warranted to plus or minus 1 mph even if the gun is properly calibrated, so to give someone a ticket for going 2 or 3 mph over the limit - there is obviously room for error. The angle at which the radar gun is pointed also will affect the reading, which could give a variance of another 1 mph or so.