Speedtraps

[ShawnC]

Active radar jamming equipment is banned by the FCC. The passive stuff doesn't work and is banned in a couple of states.

There are no FCC rules against laser jamming, and as such is only banned in the same states the ban the radar jamming equipment.

 

[I.P. Freley]

If it's not banned, my guess is that it has been shown not to work.

It's worth too much money to the various Municipal Fundraising Departments (aka- Your Misallocated Officers of the Peace) to allow something that would interfere with "speed enforcement"!

On a related note, do CT, VA and DC still have anti-detector laws? I seem to remember that one of them rescinded their law...

 

[WrightAvia]

I'm not angry, just curt.

Anyway, a LIDAR alert can be gotten by scatter...just like a RADAR alert can come from scatter. Done that, been there, doing it tomorrow, bought the T-Shirt.

When the man is in the hole and points his little money maker at the car in front of you and you get the backscatter...you have been alerted. I have gotten radar backscatter off of guardrails and semitrucks. You have to be alert. If you aint watching the tailights of the cars ahead of you and keeping one eye in the mirror, looking for the state patrol aircraft, using a speeding car in front of you on the highway as a "RADAR PICKET"...you'll lose.

I can make it all the way from Knob Creek, Kentucky to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 7.5 hours and my passport brand lidar/radar detector is in the big red tool box out in the garage. Don't need it. Just the MKI MOD"0" EYEBALL.

As for not speeding...hahaha. When I can get behind a couple of FIBS that are going 85 on the interstate for several hours...I'm a happy guy.

I put 15,000 miles a year on my car just commuting to work and any weekend can guarantee me 250-500 miles of driving, keeping up with friends and relatives. Probably to the tune of total of 35,000 to 40,000 miles a year and I average one speeding ticket about every 5 years. Good alert driving? or just lucky?

 

[I.P. Freley]

Aha, I didn't say "don't speed", just don't speed so egregiously that you are a likely target.

You also made my point for me about how spending so much time spying the landscape for the coppers gets fatiguing. Zeroing in on taillights ahead, staring in the mirror, scanning the sky for patrol planes (!! What about watching the ROAD??), etc. makes a long trip even longer.

Like I said, you have your method, I have mine. Eventually the law of averages will catch us both, no matter what we do. It's the trip back from the 7-11, half a mile from home, when you're sipping that Big Gulp and not paying attention that'll get ya...

 

[ShawnC]

The reason why it isn't banned is that most governments have better things to do than ban little jammers.

Regardless like I mentioned the $700 price tag is a little too much for something that in it's usefull life of 2 years (the time it will take for some newer technology to come out) it doesn't help me much.

I have heard of Car and Driver testing them and they are found to be effective, but then again the cop and just switch over to radar and clock you that way.

 

[WrightAvia]

I think Virginia is the only state that bans the use of radar detectors for the private civilian motorist (as opposed to commercial drivers). The police there, also use radar detector-detectors like the VG 100, to find motorists using radar detectors.

You can POSSESS a radar detector in Virginia...they are not BANNED from POSSESSION. They are not banned from sales in Virginia. USE of the radar detector will get you a ticket though.

Shawn C...as far as jammers go, I'd save the money for something else. VASCAR is undetectable, as is getting paced by certified calibrated speedometers or "clocked". If you see a police department that can afford to equip a squad with both radar and laser...then it's time to figure out what is up with that. Because they can't afford to put two units as expensive as LIDAR OR RADAR together in the same car. If they do, it's gotta be a one car, one cop, speed trap town.

 

[JHook]

On XC flights, nothing beats looking for speeders. If a speeder is going fast enough, it will show up on the air to air radar. The fastest I have seen is 120 knots. I watched that guy with the IR sensor swerve and almost lose control of his car as I was in single target track probably making his radar detector sing like the Mormon Tabernacle choir. I suppose if he had lost control and crashed I would have felt bad for an instant but hey, I wasn't the idiot driving almost 140 mph!!

Most slow down to 50, and very quickly I might add. What are they doing? Do they think that if they slow down to well below the speed limit the cop couldn't possibly think it was them? Unfortunately, I am never around long enough to see how long it takes them to get the courage to speed up again without ever having seen the "cop" that made them slow down.

 

[acaTerry]

Summary: Don't drive like an a$$ and you won't get a ticket. I was hospitalized and nearly killed by some a$$ who just found it too difficult to obey the speed limit. Sorry, if you get a ticket, it's your own fault, don't blame the cop.

Heard an interesting story from a GA state trooper once about someone he pulled over:

Trooper: Do you know why I pulled you over?

Citizen: No

Trooper: You were speeding 15 mph over the limit.

Citizen: So was everybody else, why did you pick me?

Trooper: Ever been fishing?

Citizen: Yes.

Trooper: Ever see a big school of fish and fish into it?

Citizen: Yes.

Trooper: You didn't catch the whole school, did you?