Re: Outbraking radar (was Re: Valentine 1)

["Jonathan Linkov" <njconn@email.msn.com>]

Detectors aren't a reason to speed excessively, I feel.  They are a perfect
way to use other traffic to your advantage.  Travel the same area regularly
(for me it is DC to NJ) and you learn the patterns and falses of the area,
plus where the cops hang out.  Then, you can tell what alerts are real, and
what ones are false, and play the bounces from other cars to your advantage.
This isn't steady state x band anymore.  You are rarely going to run into a
cop with his gun set to "on", just blasting away, unless he is just trying
to slow down traffic.  Current radar can only help you know where it is
coming from at best (V1).  I'm happy with my Escort Solo.  Small enough to
hide between the headliner and my visor, and hasn't been picked up here in
VA one time.  If you do 95 mph on a highway, no radar/lidar will help you
all the time.  IF you do 75-80 and stay to the middle, you have a better
chance of staying ticket free, IMHO.

Jon
njconn@msn.com
'96 A4q
ICQ#8826028
http://www.geocities.com/~jgriff/CAC/CAC.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Marty Halvorson <martyh@jidmail.nmcourts.com>
To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Thursday, June 04, 1998 7:34 PM
Subject: Outbraking radar (was Re: Valentine 1)


>"Do some people believe/know it's possible to slam on the brakes when hit
>with radar, and be able to change your speed before it registers?"
>
>In Nevada, October 1990, doing about 75 in a 55 zone.  See this nice blue
>car coming toward me.  When it was about 1/4 mile away, BAM!!!!! detector
>lights up full scale.  Hit the brakes hard, cop (in the blue car) goes by.
>Wait in vain for the red lights to show up.  About 50 miles later, doing 85
>in same 55 zone, all of the sudden the cars behind suddenly slow, I think,
>"What the hell?"  Then the red lights come on, and I'm had.
>
>During the stop, I ask the cop if he's the same one that had been going the
>other way (no towns where he could have come on the road).  He answered,
>"Yes, you beat my radar back about 50 miles ago.  So, I had to do it the
>old fashioned way."  i.e. he clocked me with his cruiser.
>
>A word to the wise, vigilence is still the best way to avoid speeding
>tickets.  In fact, I gave up on radar detectors a couple of years ago.
>Haven't had a speeding ticket since.
>
>
>
>Peace
>
>Marty Halvorson
>New Mexico Supreme Court
>Administrative Office of the Courts
>Judicial Information Division
>martyh@jidmail.nmcourts.com
>