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Nabbed For Speeding? GPS Data Could Get You off the Hook

July 21, 2008
by Jacqui Cheng
Blogger, Ars Technica

Jacqui Cheng

As anyone who has ever gotten a speeding ticket knows (full disclosure: I never have … knock on wood), you often have very little ammo to fight back against the reading that the all-knowing radar gun spat out. But thanks to more sophisticated and affordable technology, that could be changing. A California teen is using GPS data to attempt to get himself off the hook for allegedly going 17 miles per hour over the speed limit, simultaneously casting doubt on the accuracy of police radars and giving hope to tech-savvy drivers.

The story started out simply enough. 18-year-old Shaun Malone was caught by a police radar going 62 in a 45 mph zone last summer. Under most circumstances, most people would assume that this was all simply true–it’s not unheard of for teenagers to speed, after all.

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