Posted on 07/14/2020 6:17:06 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A number of commentators have suggested that the Department put a governor on squad cars so that the vehicle is unable to move at more than 40 or 45 MPH. It would eliminate a lot of the crashes and increase officer reactions times to traffic issues as they would be more observable at 40 MPH than they would be at 90-or-100 MPH.
Just one small (or large) problem: (photo at link) We're sure he'd weigh down the vehicles by dozens of miles per hour, but there just aren't that many 450 pound governors available to ride on along on all three shifts citywide. Maybe he could just ride around with 011 Tact for a few months?
(Excerpt) Read more at secondcitycop.blogspot.com ...
A speed limiter is a governor used to limit the top speed of a vehicle. For some classes of vehicles and in some jurisdictions they are a statutory requirement, for some other vehicles the manufacturer provides a non-statutory system which may be fixed or programmable by the driver.
Just make sure when you grandma’s home is getting broken into....tell them burglars to slow down cuz the cops have a governor on their engines.
Speed limits for cop cars unlimited speeds for criminals
Stupid idea.
I lol’ed. Hard.
That picture of Pritzker included makes the joke priceless!
The governer!
Governor Creosote.
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Tacrolimus.
Interesting stuff.
Last year I was bushwacked.
Yes! Right here in DuPage!
That damn poison ivy got the drop on me.
All over and around my eyes.
Tacrolimus ointment did the trick, and quickly too.
He’s always been a bit . . . big-boned, but it looks like he’s put on a few pounds since taking office.
I know in the case of many German-made vehicles (and probably other countries as well), the built-in speed limiter is tied to tire speed rating. The ‘02 Benz I have in my garage came with H-rated tires from the factory, which have a rating for 130 mph, and from what I’ve read on MBWorld and Benzworld, this is where the speed limiter comes on. Fun fact: both the E320 (which I own) and E430 for this model year have the same governed top speed; I guess the E430 just gets there sooner. :)
Another fun fact: if you drive a Bugatti Veyron at top speed, after 15 minutes the tires start coming apart. But don’t worry about that; if you start with a full tank it runs out of fuel in about 12 minutes. :)
Did you notice the murder over by there near your AO?
Have friends almost next-door! Never heard anything.
Not much info on it?
Second City Cop had about as much as any?
Multiple people were shot and one was killed in a shooting in west suburban Roselle early Saturday morning, police said.
Roselle police responded about 1:30 a.m. to a report of multiple shots fired in the area of Picton and Roselle roads.
When officers arrived, they found multiple people had been shot and one was killed. Police did not immediately provide an exact number of shooting victims.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
“...area is home to a couple of those AirBnb’s and this shooting happened at one that rents for a few thousand dollars per weekend. It’s seems 200 guests showed up for a birthday party, all from the 011 District, and the usual 011 mayhem followed them to the leafy streets of Roselle.”
Believe it or not, weight isn’t much of a factor in top speed, though it does affect acceleration. Ask anyone who’s built a car to run at Bonneville.
with H-rated tires from the factory, which have a rating for 130 mph...
And think about the times you ‘blew the carbon out’ of some jalopy with tires so thin you could see the air in them?
And the rain and wet road keep them cool.
“Did you notice the murder over by there near your AO?”
Oh yea. A mile from where I went to High School. Some high dollar homes back there. The upside is it’s pretty much ended AirBNB in Roselle.
And the world is down one scumball.
No humans were involved.
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I'm sure that's true for the German cars sold outside of Germany, but I don't believe the German motorist would accept this. (He or she would want the option to simply upgrade the tires.)
A few years ago I rented an Audi A6 for a trip from Hamburg to Cologne; the first thing I noticed was a warning that the car tires were only rated for 250 Km/H (about 155 MPH). (Unstated, of course, was that the car itself could exceed 250 Km/H; the warning was necessary to prevent someone from "outdriving" the safety of the car tires.)
Yea like cops are in any hurry to stop a burglary. Your lucky if they shop up about an hr after it’s all finished.
Deleting the speed limiter in most vehicles is just a matter of unchecking the box for a tuner.
Not that I’m ever going to do a Cannonball, but I have it turned off on everything I get tuned.
Hahaha.
.I may have a little more insight into this topic than your tiny bitnifpersonal anecdotal evidence/short story.
Did anyone tell the criminals they can’t drive over 40 mph? If not, then the cops are a wasted effort. Might as well defund them.
rwood
A mile from where I went to High School
Lake Park West?
Used to pheasant at that location before the school was built. The farmer was a friend of the family.
Not too far off used to target shoot with the RR tracks as a backstop.
Today you’d be calling an attorney to help get you out if you so much as drove by with shotgun on an easy rider rack.
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