Posted on 01/18/2020 7:27:06 PM PST by ebshumidors
I received a speeding ticket tonight coming up hwy 7 from Ole Miss to Memphis. Since I haven’t had one in ten years or so, I found a few tings interesting:
1. The police were in the opposite lane and must have locked on without sitting on the side of the road with a radar gun. I imagine they have some new stuff that uses their speed against an oncoming car’s speed. Not hard to solve, but I’ve never run into it before. 2. Since it was at night, after I pulled over, I put on the overhead lights, rolled down the window and put my hands on the steering wheel. When the officer approached, he made sure to stay at my 8 o’clock. This is also new. 3. All he asked for was my license. No insurance and registration. I guess those are in the computer. 4.. There was no ticket book. It was a computer printout. 5. The officer was polite and all of my USNA parent and Ole Miss stickers didn’t help. I’m wondering if Marshall county offers a veteran’s discount.
“Moving radar has been around a long time now. Detectors may warn you if a cop is scanning up ahead. They can use it ciming up behind as well.
The instant on stuff and laser are the real bitch. Gave up on detectors in Hawaii as you never get a laser warning in time.
Laser has to sit still, instant on can trigger it right in front of you so no warning. CHP got radar and was deadly with the instant stuff. Luckily, they triggered it quite a bit so some warning something was up ahead.
Last ticket I got was some cop sitting in the shade of an overpass where you could not see him in the sun, nailing those entering the freeway with laser. Where are you supposed to let a performance car rip a bit other than getting on a damn freeway?
Leaving Pearl Harbor, so good killings with guys having fun entering the freeway. Too soon you were stuck in traffic 30 mph under the limit.
I notice you do not mention all the soccer moms texting, or geriatric drivers that are oblivious to what is around them.
Many speeders are incompetent to drive at any limit. Many are far more safe than the multitudes that have no reaction time or vision to be driving at all.
I had a 67 Mustang GT that worked like that. I sold the car because almost all my points were gone after driving it for a year or so.
Please slow down. And, did you by chance ask the officer if he thought Epstein really killed himself?
That use to be an instant $10.00 fine area.
The old X-band CW radars were easy to spoof. I wanted to patent a design for a corner reactor spinning at the speed you wanted the cop radar to read. Never got around to it, but it would have worked. Legal as well, as it was passive. Active jamming is illegal, imagine that.
Later in my career got into ECM, and the gear was there to build a kick-ass jammer, but too expensive. The newer K-band pulse doppler cop radars, don’t you know.
LIDAR
One word: Waze
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Two words: Slow down
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Everybody slips up now and then. Back to that...
One word: Waze
I was on my way to work, late, and was doing probably 80 or 85 in a 70 zone on a divided highway. Saw a cop going the opposite way...checked the rear view and sure enough he hits the next turn around with his lights flashing. At that point I was only a mile or so from the next exit and he had to wait for some traffic to complete the turn.
I had a choice: Admit my guilt and passively wait for him to catch up so I could get a ticket...OR proceed because technically he wasn't behind me and wasn't pulling me over...So I punched the gas and went as fast as my Elantra could go and beat feet to the next exit. Hit the exit, went down the road a bit and pulled into a parking lot and waited. Cop goes streaming by a bit later, I went back to the on ramp and continued on my way.
Radar And LIDAR are two different devices. LIDAR is hand held and target specific. You look thru the lens at the target vehicle and the device shows the speed in the viewfinder. Pull the trigger and it freeze captures the vehicle picture and the frozen speed which can be shown to the violator.
Radar is not target specific and requires the operator to,identify the fastest moving target. The radar will record the speed in either direction, stationary or moving, all the Officer has to do is correctly choose the speeding vehicle.
What, just having a gun in your vehicle is a felony?
I never got a ticket in 50 years of driving until last year when I made an illegal left turn. The cop was all business which surprised me. No hello, how are you doing. Basically, here’s your ticket.
I got a ticket north of Abbeville on old 7 in 1979. I was headed to my girlfriend who was meeting me for the weekend from Little Rock ....I was in my junior year at ole miss back when it wasn’t so effed up like now
Overton Square and a weekend out at the round Hyatt towards Germantown
I was doing over 100 on the curves on my Suzuki 1100GSRS
Marshall county deputy felt sorry and knocked it down to 71...
Good luck
Oxford was a fun place to live most of 76-81
I lived in Taylor before it was cool
Let me guess, you were also young?
I still drive the same sorts of cars in the same manner, but am now forty years older and less apt to be stopped.
The kids too often do have a point when they complain of being singled out, BTDT.
Back in the day, I had cops stop me for no reason; one young SP admitted he just wanted my name and address so he could call me for a date. PFFT!
I could write a book about my bizarre experiences including the times I went to traffic court to *fight* a ticket by myself. Good times.
Three years ago a Highway Patrol guy who was driving in the opposite direction caught me on radar doing 64 in a 55 zone. He only told me to slow down i.e. didn't cite me.
I asked my brother, a career cop, about it. He said the technology these days makes it a slam dunk.
My brother said speeding tickets in my state became outrageously expensive long ago. Since they can be more than a hardship for many decent people he decided two years before he retired he would not issue any kind of citation as long as people he stopped were respectful.
He had enough seniority so he was working daytime shifts at that time. He said the last 18 months on the job he never issues any kind of citation.
Ah yes, reminds me of the “Double Nickel” days.
When cops would pull over multiple vehicles at one time, and tell each driver they had been nailed by Radar.
It does not work that way, but the revenue was huge and of course it’s OK to lie to “Criminals”!
I also remember when Cincinnati Microwave got ahold of some radar guns, and found a TREE was clocked at something like 65 MPH!
K-40 built into the body of the car, not visible to anyone....saved my tail many times over, and paid for itself by preventing me from citations.
As a kid I did similar. Late night, empty highway in the middle of northern Minnesota going WAY too fast. Got off the next exit and pulled down a gravel road. Waited a bit and went to go back out to the main road to get back onto the freeway.
Three cops were sitting out by the freeway. Went back to the gravel road and kept taking back roads until we got to the two lane asphalt that would take us the 100 miles back south - about 40 miles parallel to the freeway!
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