An Update on the Drive a Hummer, Get a Ticket Thread

This is an update, with a chart, on my previous post about the most ticketed vehicles on the road along with some speculation as to why Hummers get the most tickets. What I find the most odd here is that other huge vehicles, like the Tahoe and Suburban on the far opposite side of the ticketing spectrum from rolling idiocy like the Hummer.

The addition of more of the bottom end of the spectrum pokes a great big hole in my theory about larger vehicles being more distanced from the road surface and thus having less of a sense of their speed, if this were true then Suburban and Tahoe drivers would be nearer the top end of the spectrum. So perhaps it really is about the kind of driver that is attracted to the Hummer?

Drive a Hummer, Get More Tickets

Study: Hummers get the most tickets

The San Francisco company Quality Planning studied moving violations issued to drivers of various models in the United States and found that drivers of the Hummer H2 and H3 were 4.63 times more likely than the average driver to be ticketed.

The two hypotheses suggested in the article:
Hypothesis #1: Hummers make people drive like jerks because their height, gun-slit windows, and tailgate-mounted spare tire making for large blind spots.
Hypothesis #2: Jerks are more likely to drive Hummers.

And my hypothesis:
Hypothesis #3: Studies have shown that, the more elevated a driving position is from the road, the less of a sense of speed one has and so a Hummer driver will tend to go faster and get more tickets. That and its pretty clear that someone who would buy a Hummer is kind of a jerk to begin with.
Here's the relevant part from that link above (emphasis mine): CONCLUSIONS: The two studies demonstrate that, when they are not able to reference a speedometer, drivers choose to drive faster when they view the road from an eye height that is representative of a large SUV compared to that of a small sports car.

Either way, I have no problem with self-absorbed people in Hummers getting more speeding tickets. A speeding Hummer represents a much higher risk to other drivers because of the amount of rolling mass and the higher center of gravity that makes them more likely to ride up on another vehicle in the event of a collision and to crush the passenger area. A sports car that is much lighter and smaller and lower to the road making it less likely to cause catastrophic damage.

Average is 25K Mbps?

I think there's something broken about the Speed.io testing site. I just ran it from behind my district firewall and got superb results, here, see for yourself. If 25K down and nearly 15K up is average then my connection at home is pathetic.

Just for fun it would be a good reminder of how far we've come to throttle a connection all the way down to 56k dial up speeds again. But it would only be fun if you could just as easily go from that skinny little straw pipe and go right back to the flippin' storm drain pipe, maybe a dial or scroll wheel to demo just how insanely fast 25K is (that's 25,000 kpbs compared to 56 kpbs or roughly 446 times as fast).

And we're not even the world leader in consumer internet speeds. Nope, it seems that it is not unusual for Japanese apartment buildings to have their own fiber connection which can deliver 100K speeds without even breaking a sweat. What can you do with 100,000 kpbs? Stream porn from five sites at once while downloading HD movies and uploading live streaming video from all four corners of your apartment. And you'd still have plenty of bandwidth leftover to send an email to mom letting her know how much you love her. Isn't technology grand?