[HN Gopher] The Proof of Innocence (2012)
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       The Proof of Innocence (2012)
        
       Author : BerislavLopac
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2023-10-05 12:57 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | m3kw9 wrote:
       | Is this used by traffic lawyers to fight tickets?
        
       | tim-fan wrote:
       | I appreciate the rigour, but it sounds like the argument is just
       | "I did stop but you didn't see it"
        
         | AnimalMuppet wrote:
         | I think it's "You can't prove it didn't happen this way."
        
           | LordDragonfang wrote:
           | Certainly not beyond a reasonable doubt.
        
       | xxdiamondxx wrote:
       | In case you missed the little button on the left:
       | 
       | "TL;DR
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       | In 2012, Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist at the University of
       | California, San Diego, faced a $400 fine for allegedly running a
       | stop sign. Instead of accepting the fine, Krioukov crafted an
       | academic paper titled "The Proof of Innocence" to argue his case
       | in court.
       | 
       | Surprisingly, the judge was convinced and acquitted him. Krioukov
       | shared his paper online with a subtitle, "A way to fight your
       | traffic tickets," humorously noting that the paper earned a
       | special prize of $400, which he didn't have to pay to California.
       | 
       | The paper discusses a scenario in which if a car stops at a stop
       | sign, an observer (e.g., a police officer) located at a specific
       | distance perpendicular to the car's trajectory might perceive the
       | car as not stopping under specific conditions. These conditions
       | are:
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       | 1 - The observer measures not the linear but angular speed of the
       | car.
       | 
       | 2 - The car decelerates and subsequently accelerates relatively
       | quickly.
       | 
       | 3 - There is a short-time obstruction of the observer's view of
       | the car by an external object (e.g., another car) at the moment
       | when both cars are near the stop sign.
       | 
       | Disclaimer: the paper was submitted on April 1st, 2012, so
       | there's a non-zero probability this could a be joke by Dmitri :)
       | Either way, it's a good paper."
        
         | daniel-cussen wrote:
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       | murphyslab wrote:
       | Better to post a link to the paper on arXiv:
       | https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0162
       | 
       | Note also that the Fermat's Library copy is version 1 of the
       | paper; it was subsequently updated and version 2 is available on
       | arXiv.
        
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