Posted on 02/04/2014 7:17:57 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Yep. Understood. Thanks.
De Soto
No, that's not right.
Grenada
Nope, not that either.
De Nada...
There we go. I knew 2nd grade Spanish would pay off sometime.
In my state, it isn’t illegal per se, but it is against the law to high-beam the oncoming traffic. That’s how they get ya.
Solution...make sure your lights are on low beam, and flick the switch a few times.
At night, unless you’re willing to turn your lights OFF for a split second (probably also illegal), you’re SOL.
There are several, actually. Trapster is the one that's been around the longest. It has a lot of interactivity, with other users providing near real-time updates to radar trap locations.
For those who would rather not use their phones for this purpose, some of the high-end radar detectors are able to link together using a similar network.
You can't flash to tell an oncoming car to dim their lights?
You’re not supposed to. Of course, I’ve never seen that one enforced except for once, when a guy flashed his high beams at an oncoming motorist that was highbeaming him. The motorist wouldn’t dim his lights, so he hit his high beams a second time. Motorist still wouldn’t dim his lights, so the guy just switched to high beam like the other motorist.
Then, the blue lights came on atop the other motorist’s car. Don’t remember if the guy was cited or not, but he was definitely warned not to do it in the future.
Actually, I read a little and it is illegal to have them on in my state within 500 feet of an oncoming car.
I do it anyway when someone high beams me, though, and in case of road hazard or emergency vehicles.
Years back we had a CD in the car on channel 19, so did a majority of travelers. If there was a cop car on the road, it was breaker break, bear at mile marker (what ever) If another car was traveling with you, you dialed to another channel for private conversations.
I thought apps like trapster were taken offline because police objected.
Also relying on other people is not as reliable as using the police’s own vehicle lojacks.
IIRC, the cops were trying to negate Trapster's effectiveness by making false speed trap reports. Trapster countered by adding a "confirmation" feature, allowing users to either confirm an active speed trap or report it as false or inactive. Works well enough to tick the cops off.
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