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If you're sitting at a light and a cop is behind you and you burn rubber when you take off, but you don't break any other laws is that breaking a law? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I guess the simple question is, is burning rubber illegal?

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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Around here they refer to it as 'unreasonable acceleration'.

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What? That's illegal?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, loss of control basically

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

It's to help prevent people from racing from stoplight to stoplight.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sure there's something at the state level, found a local ref here. Seems to be one of those laws where it's illegal if they already wanted a reason to mess with the driver.

https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/aitkin/latest/aitkin_mn/0-0-0-802

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Prima facie evidence of unnecessary exhibition of speed shall be squealing or screeching sounds emitted by the tires, or the throwing of dirt by the tires of the vehicle, or both

EVs can accelerate quickly while not making much noise... I guess it's okay to quickly accelerate with an EV then?

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It should be, if not. Pedestrians need to cross roads. Other cars need to enter roads, change lanes, etc. Cars accelerating at unreasonable rates will cause an accident.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I agree about pedestrians, but cars changing lanes should to be aware of their surroundings, including cars that are approaching them.

Cars accelerating at unreasonable rates

How do you define "unreasonable" though, especially with EVs that can accelerate quickly?

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

Unreasonable gives cops and judges a lot of leeway. Words like that should be illegal. If you can't pin it down, it can't be a law.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Unreasonable is any rate of acceleration that other cars can't safely navigate around and amongst.