Even so I really don’t think the radar gun has a display capable or is even programed to read anything at this speed. THis assumed more like after the cop sees it, I admit what I did.
Ok so we have so far:
Speeding and reckless endangerment
infraction of local noise ordnaces
stunting, dangerous driving, and (depending on local laws), having unapproved automotive equipment.
The last one seems like the troublemaker. So how much are we talking here, $500-$1000, suspended license and 90 days? More? Less?
If you can achieve 0.9c in an atmosphere without killing yourself or destroying the planet, NASA will pay whatever bail and/or fine a judge can think of to get you out of the big house and into a very well-funded research lab. Even if your hyperdrive only works for brief bursts, it’s still centuries beyond anything we’ve come up with thus far and it would be insanely useful in getting humans into deep space travel.
BTW, I think you’d be violating a couple few of Newton’s Laws: Conservation of energy and the Law of Universal Gravitation pop squarely into my mind. (In other words, how do you intend to stop on the same planet you started out from? That would be at least as interesting to NASA as your acceleration unit.)
Im thinking arson as well, de to the fact that air friction and compression heat at that speed would be more than enough to incinerate bystanders and nearby buildings.
You can’t move that fast in the atmosphere without causing mass destruction. No way around it unless you make up your own physics and find a way of moving without passing through the intervening space, and if you did that, you wouldn’t be speeding - you would be leaving the jurisdiction of the police to go into subspace, hyperspace, whatever you call it, move, and then re-enter our space. That is, if you figure out some form of inertialess accelleration.
there’s laws against sonic boomers flying under 40k(IIRC) feet, so you’d be breaking this one too. if this was in a city you’d also be charged with the murder of several thousand people…
You invent a car that travels at .9C for short distances. You use a “hyperdrive” to go one block with the policeman as a witness. I would assume the officer didnt run away in sheer terror so he must be savy of your invention.
You could be charges with:
*Operating a hyperspace vehicle without a license. If there are no laws against that yet, there are laws against operating an unsafe, unregistered modified vehicle.
*Performing a hyperspace jump in a residential area. Speed limit is 25, buddy, It aint there for fun.
*Reckless endangerment.
*Exhibition of speed (drag racing)
*Performing a turn without a signal.
*Misuse of public streets by a vehicle other than a car.
*Carrying unsafe, unregistered substances on public streets without a permit (what you use for fuel, Boy?)
*Driving at unsafe speeds with impaired vision. Whats the law of relativity say about light entering your eyes from relative positions?
Around where I live, I think speeding violations are currently assessed at $100 for the first 10 miles per hour over the posted speed limit, and then $10 per mile for every mph over the limit after that.
Let us, for the sake of argument, assume that the incident occurs in a commercial area with a posted speed limit of 20mph.
.9c = (186,000 m/sec x 60 sec/min x 60 min/hr) x 0.9 = 602,640,000 mph.
The posted limit is 20mph, so the first 30 mph of your speed will cost you $100. That leaves 602,639,970 mph over the limit to account for, with a fine of $10 per mph, which equals $6,026,399,700. Add to that the original 100 for the first 10 miles per hour over the limit, and you get a speeding ticket in the amount of 6,026,399,800.
K2Dave sits in his hopped up car waiting at the light. He winks at the cops sitting in the cruiser next to him. The light goes green. “Punch it, Chewie.”, he says as the hairy beast in the passenger seats flips on the hyperdrive.
There is a flash of light and a thunderous roar as the Millennium Thunderbird leaps down Kessel Street. The cop car is lifted up onto two wheels briefly before smashing back down. Every piece of glass within 200 yards shatters from the shockwave. But, the town is still standing because K2Dave, Super Genius, has also invented deflector shields to contain and damp out most of the energy.
The cops look at the streak of smoke showing the path where the car briefly turned the air into plasma.
Officer Bob says, “Did you see that?”
Officer Fred says, “No, and neither did you.”
