I Had My Tesla Cybertruck on Cruise at 82 MPH and A GA State Patrol Gave Me a Ticket For Going 89 MPH, Says Anything Over 85 Is a ‘Super-Speeder’ Fine

Why would you pass the Trooper? If the Trooper is speeding and you pass him, of course you are gonna get a ticket. And did he radar you or use his vehicle speedometer? Because it could be inaccurate. I would fight it, but I fight all my tickets, including the parking ones. You can go in with the video footage, but I would do a calculation for 10 seconds. In most cases, if you admit to going 82 with cruise control, the Judge will drop the speed to 82. If the Trooper says that he used his Speedometer, ask when it was last calibrated. If its from over a year, thats too long to be accurate. If it's less than a year, ask if he did the calibration himself, most likely the answer will be no. If so, it's hearsay evidence, because he got the information from someone else, and it's not admissible in your trial, so the Trooper can't use his speedometer to get your speed.

Probably better to just shut up and pay.

"Flow of traffic" doesn't matter and how fast the cop was going doesn't matter. I'm curious how he first started seeing the cop in front of him if they were both going the same speed. Did cop pull out in front of him from a cross street or was he actually going faster and slowly caught up? "Flow of traffic" and basic speed laws vary by state but are almost always, if not always, to adjust DOWN your speed from posted limits based on flow of traffic, road conditions, weather conditions, construction, animals and the like.
It's not you can go the same speed as a cop, but we can all see why a cybertruck owner would think that.

If you are speeding by any amount and you are lucky enough to see a cop before they see you, set your cruise to the speed limit and put both hands on the wheel until you stop seeing them.

Sounds exactly like a cybertruck owner. Brantley sounds like an excellent name for one too, maybe like Brantley Cumberbatch III.

If he can afford a cybertruck he can afford the speeding fine, this happens to regular people all the time and they dont get an article written about them.

Sorry, the speed limit is 70 and you are going 82? And feel upset because the police scanner says you are going 89.

Just contest the ticket, and ask to see proof from the radar. The corrupt cop won't have it, he eyeballed it.

Cops lie in court all the time...

New vehicles normally aren't calibrated upon leaving the plant. There is always a varience. The officer calibrates his radar regularly to make sure it's accurate. Just because the drivers states he was going 82 doesn't mean it's accurate. He would have to have his vehicle calibrated to testify his speed was accurate. P. S. Never pass a cop who's doing the speed limit !

He wasn't being targeted. Even if he was doing 82, that is still 12 mph over Georgia's highest speed limit. So his ticket is deserved.

Branley was breaking the traffic law. It is a speed LIMIT not a speed floor or speed suggestion. Pay the fine and move on. If he can afford to buy a cybertruck, he can easily afford the traffic ticket.

Not Cybertruck targeting. They just love handing out superspeeder fines. Go to court in the county you were ticketed in. Before you go, download a driving report from your home state. If you have a good driving record otherwise, they usually dismiss the super speeder bit. My problem was they didn't send my super speeder bill. I paid the county portion and they said the state would send the bill dor the super speeder. They never did. Then I got a notice saying my license was suspended in Georgia and it was an extra 50 to get it reinstated. I googled and the state has gotten in trouble for doing this. They don't send the bill, they suspend your license, and charge extra. It's intentional.

Most likely the cyberturds cruise control was not functioning as intended, and even should the offender spend several thousand dollars to hire a subject matter expert to show that the officer’s radar was not functioning correctly, they have already publicly stated that they “the offender” they disregarded the legal speed limit & opted to diver at minimum 12mph over the posted limit.

Who passed a cop when they are speeding?

The fine was for being the dullest knife in the drawer.

Whether 82 or 89 mph you earned this ticket by passing a GA State Trooper in a marked car with your cruise control set at 82 mph in a 70 mph zone. Nice work moron.

You were targeted Dummyfor going over the speed limit. Stop whinning.

He admits he was breaking the law.

Doesn't need to hire a lawyer. The math is on his side. Plead not guilty, show the video, get on with his day. Also, as long as you're under 10 mph over the posted limit the Smokeys won't bother with you.

Tift County got me with Ladar from behind an overpass sign for 88 mph. Super Speeder fines are used to fund rural hospital er's. Local leo's (law enforcement officers) make their living in Georgia by being devious sneaky bastards and they are good at it.
I wasn't told by Tift Co. about the super speeder law. I paid the ticket $500, thirty days later a post card arrives stating I owe $500. I sent proof of payment, they sent an explanation of the super speeder law and notice my driving rights in Georgia were suspended and my home state was being notified of the violation. I folded and sent the second $500. Georgia has turned their LEO's into tax collectors and they are good at it. My last trip south was through Alabama where reduced speed limits were made abundantly clear without road user abuse.

He was targeted because of his stupidity. If you see a cop in front of you, you only pass it if you can pass it while still driving at or under the speed limit. I would never pass a cop at 12 miles per hour over the limit. Any cop has to pull you over.

Tift County Georgia got me with Ladar from behind an overpass sign for 88 mph. Super Speeder fines are used to fund rural hospital er's. Local leo's (law enforcement officers) make their living in Georgia by being devious sneaky bastards and they are good at it.
I wasn't told by Tift Co. about the super speeder law. I paid the ticket $500, thirty days later a post card arrives stating I owe $500. I sent proof of payment, they sent an explanation of the super speeder law and notice my driving rights in Georgia were suspended and my home state was being notified of the violation. I folded and sent the second $500 to the state as the first $500 was to Tift Co. Georgia has turned their LEO's into tax collectors and they are good at it. My last trip south was through Alabama where reduced speed limits were made abundantly clear without road user abuse.

Tickets are NEVER about safety. They are about legalized theft. Which is why the trooper LIED so he could issue a MORE EXPENSIVE ticket.

No sympathy

Cruise control and speedometers, are often imprecise. Phone gps is more accurate

Police radars can also become inaccurate, but in theory they're regularly tuned

Never a good idea to pass a cop when you are speeding.

It doesn't matter what he thinks he was going, the officer's word is law. He shouldn't have passed up the cop car, never do anything that can be interpreted by a cop as breaking the law. And never act like you know better than them!

Another cocky special cyberflunk owner. Passing a cop is stupid 101
Not slowing down when you see a trooper is stupid 102. And then claiming prejudice is the capper. Pay your fines and enjoy your points and higher insurance dumbass

The fact that this guy is driving an out-of-state vehicle over the speed limit in front of a Georgia cop, and then feels he’s been targeted speaks volumes about the Tesla owner. Entitled

If he was breaking the law, then he can't say that he was targeted. He's already admitted to breaking the law, but now wants to play the victim so he can get a handout. He knew the risks of the speeding above the speed limit and still decided he wanted to break the law. Now, when he's got consequences for his actions, he wants to play the victim.

He should lose his license. He thought he was a hot shot and he got caught. The story of his, it shows that he'll just make anything up to play the victim.

There is another possibility and that is that the interface between the cruise control and the speedometer isn't calibrated correctly. The Cyber truck has a lot of issues in its build. I got a ticket back in the '70s And was driving what I thought was the speed limit. I got a ticket for driving 6 mi over the speed limit. Just by chance. I happen to be driving on a country road a few months later with the markers. I clocked it and sure enough my speedometer and probably odometer were messed up with a relatively new car. Happens all the time.