Fetterman (D., Pa.) has received two speeding tickets in his home state — the more recent one of which was in March for exceeding the speed limit in Westmoreland County by 34 mph. Before this year, he was ticketed in April 2016 for going at least 24 mph above the speed limit in Warren County, according to state public records.
The senator’s aides have said Fetterman has texted and FaceTimed while driving, ”prompting concerns among his staff and fears about riding with him,” the Post reported, citing three people with knowledge of staff discussions who spoke about internal conversations on the condition of anonymity.
The speeding tickets are for 34 mph and 24 mph above the limit, this is roughly 54.7 kph and 38.6 kph or 15.2 m/s and 10.7 m/s above the limit in standardised units.
Are the offenses of a single US-American lawmaker really !fuckcars@lemmy.world-worthy?
speeding does use the individuals yearly earnings thats how bill gates speeding ticket was greater than ~10k USD
This guy is such a disappointment.
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That’s around 55 kmph for anyone wondering about the conversion. Ouch!, I didn’t even push those limits in my reckless youth.
Those are rookie numbers. You need to verify your cars speed limiter actually works.
Yes mine works. Down to within 0.1mph (GPS verified).
What speedometer reads in decimal divisions?
The stopwatch and math kind.
If you know the distance between 2 points and can time yourself moving between them, you can verify your speed as finely as your data allows.
My buddy is also a car nerd and redid his whole instrument cluster and added a digital counter to his speedometer that was actually an old bedside radio panel thing so he had TWO decimals for his speed. Idk if it actually showed the speed with any more accuracy or just translated the needle position somehow but it looked very 80s Sci fi for sure.
The computer does.
The computer doesn’t have GPS, but my phone (same device logging the data) does though.
Anything 20+ where I live is considered reckless driving.
I’m always confused when I hear stories like this about important, powerful people. It feels like driving isn’t “worth their time” and when they have to travel by car, they should be escorted so they can continue to do their work.
how long before we find out he had a brain worm?
He’s also a genocide supporter.
Everyone in here acting like they’ve never gotten a speeding ticket or been in an accident.
I haven’t received a ticket for 20 over, that’s extremely reckless.
Oh no, Speeding! He’s unfit for the senate. Better have him resign. Can’t have bad drivers in Congress.
Oh no, breaking the law and endangering lives!
You need to make your sarcasm incredibly blatant on Lemmy. If you think it’s pretty obvious, you gotta make it twice as obvious.
No I think everyone gets the sarcasm.
Not in my experience, I just got a deadass reply in my inbox before this one to an incredibly obvious joke. Good to hear this is seemingly the exception.
I think at least 21 people didn’t!
No I’m pretty sure they did. Sarcastically dismissing this extremely fucked up behavior as politically motivated sniping is really fucking stupid.
No… They did.
