10-12-2013, 09:58 PM
I haven't lost my license, not yet anyway. As far as I know, since Hawaii doesn't implement a "point system" (it did, but then had to abandon it due to clogged courts), the only way to lose your license is either through extreme speeding, which I think is defined as 30 mph over the limit or over 80 mph (!), reckless driving, or of course, DUI, none of which I plan on doing. I suppose if a person were unfortunately enough to collect an absurd number of speeding ticket in a short enough span of time, some judge or another might choose to revoke one's license. Thankfully I don't think I'm anywhere near that point.
Edited to add that I know of one very civic-minded woman who is now in her 70s who was given a ticket for hitting 80 on long stretch of the improved Saddle road by a particularly--I would say with reason--sadistic cop. In a modern car, on an open road, in open country without a soul in sight, 80 is not hard to do. In fact, I doubt it's an overstatement to say that one can blithely reach that speed without a second thought. This is the kind of situation where I think cops have something of a duty to exercise common sense. This woman had to go before a judge and then hire a lawyer, luckily only at an expense of about a thousand dollars to clear the situation. This was all, of course, fully realized by the cop who wrote her ticket.
Edited to add that I know of one very civic-minded woman who is now in her 70s who was given a ticket for hitting 80 on long stretch of the improved Saddle road by a particularly--I would say with reason--sadistic cop. In a modern car, on an open road, in open country without a soul in sight, 80 is not hard to do. In fact, I doubt it's an overstatement to say that one can blithely reach that speed without a second thought. This is the kind of situation where I think cops have something of a duty to exercise common sense. This woman had to go before a judge and then hire a lawyer, luckily only at an expense of about a thousand dollars to clear the situation. This was all, of course, fully realized by the cop who wrote her ticket.