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by dylan604 731 days ago
I was told that in Monaco, if you are caught speeding in a supercar, your fine is much more than if you are caught speeding on your moped. I thought that seemed fair to me. Whether it is true or not is something I never looked up as I will never be in the situation of needing to know. If it's not true, then seems like a waste of a good idea that people seem to want to be true.
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Speeding fines are often based on how much over the limit you are going, which is perfectly sensible given that reflects the danger and discourages petty over-enforcement of very low margin speeding.

Adding mass of the vehicle as a component to fines would also be a sensible measure to make the fine reflect the hazard.

while all of that might be true, I'm pretty sure none of that had anything to do with the supercar policy.