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In 2010, the owner of a Ferrari missed a radar in Switzerland at 137 km/h. He took home the most expensive fine in history

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The fine for speeding highest ever recorded did not come from a German road or a French motorway. It arose in Switzerland, and they gave it to the driver of a Ferrari Testarossa. The most curious thing is that they did not put it in for pushing the power of this 90’s classic to the limit since it was traveling at 137 km/h. The result was a fine of more than 247,000 euros, an amount that officially appears in the Guinness World Records as the biggest fine for speeding. A record fine. The highest speeding fine officially recorded was imposed in Switzerland in January 2010. A court in the canton of St. Gallen sentenced the driver of a Ferrari Testarossa to pay about $290,000 (more than 247,000 euros at the exchange rate) after being detected by radar traveling at 137 km/h in a section limited to 80 km/h. The amount of the fine was not arbitrary. In Switzerland, judges do not set fines based on rigid tables according to the infraction, but rather based on the real impact they must have on each driver’s pocket. A system designed so that everyone hurts equally. Swiss legislation contemplates a model of fines proportional to the driver’s income, instead of establishing a table of fixed amounts as happens in Spain. This applies an equivalence factor with respect to economic capacity, making the sanctions truly have a deterrent nature. A fine of 200 euros for a person who charges a salary of 16,000 euros It can be a compelling reason for you to take your foot off the accelerator when you don’t play. But that same figure is insignificant for someone with a net worth of several million euros. Sanctions in Switzerland are at another level. In the case of the driver of the Testarossa, the sanction was triggered because the driver declared assets that exceeded 22 million dollars and accumulated a record for similar violations. For the Swiss authorities, the fine should reflect not only the risk committed, but also the economic impact it should generate. The 2010 record is not an isolated case. According to collects the local newspaper 24hourslast August a billionaire resident in Lausanne was fined 90,000 Swiss francs (about 96,500 euros) after exceeding the 50 km/h limit on the road while traveling at 77 km/h. Although the violation was not extreme, the final calculation was, and was justified by evaluating income, assets, and family circumstances. 96,000 euros for exceeding the speed limit by 27 km/h. Switzerland is not the only country that applies it. Finland shares a sanctioning philosophy similar to that applied in Switzerland. There are also fines calculated according to income, with precedents that have exceeded 120,000 euros. One of the best known cases It is that of a businessman who was traveling at 82 km/h in an area limited to 50 km/h and ended up facing a fine of 120,000 euros due to his level of income. In Austria, for example, a millionaire They took away his driving license and the Bugatti Veyron was immediately seized for traveling at 123 km/h in an area limited to 60 km/h. Spain will never come close to these figures. The Spanish traffic legislation is located at the opposite extreme. The fines depend exclusively on the margin exceeded over the speed limit, not on the financial capacity of the offender. Thus, the case of the Finnish driver fined 120,000 euros, in Spain would be resolved with a fine of 400 euros and four points less on the driving license. In fact, you would even have a 50% discount on the fine if you pay it in the first few days. In Spain, the most serious sanctions are penalized with a maximum of 600 euros and the withdrawal of six points on the license, without there being a link between the sanctions and the level of income. This implies that someone with high purchasing powermay consider the cost of the infringement to be minimal, thus losing its deterrent nature. In Xataka | The DGT allows legal circulation at 150 km/h without being an emergency vehicle. The secret: a sign Image | Unsplash (Noah Boyer)

It seemed that GPT-5 was going to be a resounding success. Until too many people missed GPT-4o warmth

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GPT-5 has not fallen standing. Forbes He collects user testimonies with name and face that, as they count, they cried when they learned that GPT-4O was being removed from the chatgpt model selector. And friends who vomited. What has happened. OpenAI GPT-5 launched on Thursday And he eliminated the previous models, including 4th, with no option to go back. Another very popular model also died, the O3 reasoner. GPT-5 apply reasoning or not, and choose more or less advanced specific sub-models, depending on the consultation and whether the user pays a lot, little or nothing. The answer was immediate and 24 hours later Sam Altman himself had to calm the masses saying that They were valuing to return 4th to the subscribers plus. In X and Reddit came the threats of cancellation of the subscription. Why is it important. This reminds us of an awkward truth of AI: technical performance is not everything. Many users have developed emotional links with specific models. With his tone, his rhythm, his way of “thinking.” GPT-4O I was reputed to be warm, conversational, playful. Openai had scheduled it with an “excessively flattering” personality, as they admitted later. A butler. GPT-5, designed to be less “servile” and more as “a useful friend with doctoral intelligence,” has been cold and mechanical for some. Between bambalins. The launch had more problems. The automatic routing system-which decides if an answer needs more time to “think”-failed for hours, causing GPT-5 to seem “much more dumb,” Altman said. There are also the already famous cheat graphs: during the presentation, Openai used poorly made data visualizations, with higher bars for minor values. The contrast. Something striking: OpenAi presumed improvements in reasoning and programming by pulling Benchmarksbut many users regretted the loss of something intangible: the emotional connection. The one that many have developed with concrete models and therefore makes it difficult for them to fit their loss: Openai made GPT-4O write his own obituary during Thursday’s presentation, something that his enthusiasts did not like. A few days before, hundreds of people gathered in San Francisco To celebrate the funeral of Sonnet 3model retired by Anthropic a few days ago. And now what. Altman has promised to duplicate the limits of use for Plus users and improve transparency on which model each consultation responds. The CEO has acknowledged that “they underestimated how much people imported some things that they like in GPT-4O, although GPT-5 works better in most aspects.” Admission, but with recoven. The long-term availability of GPT-4O will depend on the real use that users give it. For now, Plus subscribers have the best of both worlds: GPT-5 for maximum capacity, GPT-4o for when they want a voice that is more familiar and pleasant. Openai has learned a lesson for the bad ones: a great technological can hardly change something with which millions of people interact daily without causing a rebellion. Especially when they develop a personal relationship with that technology. Outstanding image | Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio In Xataka | Good news, you don’t have to choose model using GPT-5. Bad news, it is GPT-5 who chooses it without notifying you

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