KY Court system

I am a pretty law-abiding citizen, but today I had to deal with what happens when you break the law. I was speeding down in Kentucky about a month ago and got pulled over. Apparently the officer signaled me to pull to the right side of the road, but I pulled over to the left because it seemed quicker/safer and who cares right? Wrong, this landed me a charge of "Disobeying a traffic officer's signal" and a mandatory court date. Sweet, I live 3 and a half hours from there, but i get to drive down on a weekday to go to court. Oh well itll be a nice view into the justice system right? Wrong again. It took 4 minutes. I stood in line and they told me the charge would be dropped and that I just had to pay for the speeding fine ($163 for going 13 over). Thanks for robbing me of 8 hours of my life, KY. Could we not have done this over the phone? Perhaps this is just the way things are done and it's like this to discourage breaking the law. Or maybe its just a very poorly designed system.