Who's gotten a speeding ticket in their Tesla?

[Judge Advocate]

If it's a Friday or Saturday night and the cop pulls you over and asks "Have you been drinking? Your eyes look a little glassy."
You can respond by saying, " No Ossifer, I haven't been drinking, but your eyes look a little glazed. Have you been eating too many donuts?"

 

[Coiled]

Does anyone know whether an out-of-state speeding ticket usually results in a hit to insurance and/or points on the license in your home state?

 

[rxlawdude]

Does anyone know whether an out-of-state speeding ticket usually results in a hit to insurance and/or points on the license in your home state?

I'd expect nothing escapes the insurance industry's nationally shared databases.

 

[Blu Zap]

Guys, use the Tesla Waze app on our browser. It shows where the cops are pretty regularly. On long trips I put my Escort 9500ix in the sweet spot not he windshield on the right of the rear view mirror. I have explored the Escort professionally installed radar/laser detector jammers. But they cost more than $2000 installed. The technology described works effectively in California and Oregon.

 

[2krazykats]

i really shouldn't comment on this as i was absolutely butchered for posting this, but still find it funny i got pulled over before actually taking delivery, but...

Cops don't like losing to a Model S!

I found your story hilarious; thanks for sharing!

No tickets in 6 years!

Part luck, part trying hard (though not always successfully) to enjoy the acceleration more than the speed.

Apparently, you can get pulled over for accelerating too quickly as chriSharek shared above... cops take all the fun out of driving.

I'd be curious to know if anyone in Germany's taken their Tesla on the auto-bahn. How fun would that be?!

 

[Cyclone]

There have been posters taking the P85D on the auto-bahn. I believe that's when we first heard that cruise control won't engage above 90 mph.

 

[DFibRL8R]

There have been posters taking the P85D on the auto-bahn. I believe that's when we first heard that cruise control won't engage above 90 mph.

Here's a good video
Tesla Model S P85D driving on German autobahn - YouTube

 

[yo mama]

Guys, use the Tesla Waze app on our browser. It shows where the cops are pretty regularly. On long trips I put my Escort 9500ix in the sweet spot not he windshield on the right of the rear view mirror. I have explored the Escort professionally installed radar/laser detector jammers. But they cost more than $2000 installed. The technology described works effectively in California and Oregon.

Is it Waze for Tesla Incidents ?

 

[Vgsllc1]

no ticket yet. I drive extremely slow to save energy in town.
Once in awhile I follow a fast driver in safe distance if i feel the need for speed over the hill.

Waze apps help as well.

Interstate travel i use cruise control and relax. Why speed and got pull over. it is a nobrainer.

 

[Gizmotoy]

I'd expect nothing escapes the insurance industry's nationally shared databases.

Your record comes from the state DMV. Insurance companies usually only pull your report from statesin which you have resided recently (from your credit report). They don't usually do a 50-state search. This may be one of the few cases where you can benefit from bureaucratic inefficiency.

The data is there, though, if they look for it. If it were me, I'd expect that they'll find it and hope to be pleasantly-surprised.

When switching companies, they'll ask you if you've gotten any tickets in 2/3/5 years. They figure that's good enough to protect them from the above, because if they find out you lied later they can refuse to pay out on any coverage.

 

[LLWS]

None yet, but I'm certainly working on it.

 

[tstafford]

I'm shocked so far. Knock on wood.

 

[yo mama]

I'm shocked so far. Knock on wood.

I hypothesized to my wife the car might be invisible (otherwise I'd have a ticket by now). She said, "quit being so immature." That's when I told *her* to get out of my pillow fort.

 

[AB4EJ]

Does anyone know whether an out-of-state speeding ticket usually results in a hit to insurance and/or points on the license in your home state?

Depends on which states. Some states have reciprocal data sharing agreements - the points may transfer. This isn't in place everywhere. Still the insurance company will find out.

 

[FlasherZ]

The known I-70 speed trap of Terre Haute, IN. When your city has a "pay your speeding ticket" link on its home page, you know it's a speed trap.

 

[cpa]

Depends on which states. Some states have reciprocal data sharing agreements - the points may transfer. This isn't in place everywhere. Still the insurance company will find out.

I believe most (if not all) states now share moving and parking violation data. Eight years ago we received a $125 parking ticket in a suburb of Chicago, and we were driving a rental car. I figured to blow off the ticket. A few months later we received a demand for payment. Included in their demand was an advisory that they would be forwarding our non-payment to California DMV to assess this payment plus late fees to our next vehicle registration. I telephoned DMV, and the representative said that this was true for both parking and moving violations.