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The world’s first speeding ticket was issued in 1896 for going 8 mph — officer: “Slow down.” Driver: “I’m inventing the future.”

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Early speeding laws appeared soon after cars became common enough to cause public safety concerns. Records from the early 1900s describe tickets for speeds that sound modest today but were considered dangerously fast on the roads of that era.

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