Never had one.
Never needed one.
Normally drive 5 mph over the posted speed limit.
Don't need one here, if there is a cop around all the idiots here slow down to 55 mph or slower no matter what the speed limit is for the road.
Many officers don't even write cites for less than 5 or 10 mph over the limit. It is amazing to me how many drivers really resist having their lives saved by officers who are usually writing cites in areas where there have been lots of accidents.
WyoTraveler wrote: Many officers don't even write cites for less than 5 or 10 mph over the limit. It is amazing to me how many drivers really resist having their lives saved by officers who are usually writing cites in areas where there have been lots of accidents.
Maybe so, but we have a local jurisdiction where the limit drops from 55mph to 25mph with an somewhat obscured sign. If you don't know it's there, you can easily miss it.
The cops sit just far enough the other side to nail drivers who haven't QUITE got down to 25mph.
I know the area but was still pulled over. I was going 26mph, but got off with a warning! (YES, for ONE mph over!)
I don't have a radar detector, but I can see this as a case for one!
And DosX - if this isn't a speed trap, what is it???
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kaydeejay wrote: And DosX - if this isn't a speed trap, what is it???
It's obeying the posted speed limit.
"Missing" a warning sign is the driver's fault.
*Oh and actually the term "speed trap" which I'm saying doesn't exists is the kind you are talking about. The wrongly termed definition for what people misconstrue as a trick law enforcement use to ticket drivers. The origin of the term "speed trap" was a distance between objects that officers would use to time vehicles to determine the speed. Trap - "A measured length of roadway over which electronic timers register the speed of a racing vehicle, such as a dragster."
In California the Higway Patrol and some local law enforcement agencies have radar detectors on the vehicles that work to the back as well as to the front of the patrol car, it all depends on what the officer wants to do.
If you are following or being followed by a patrol vehicle and the detector goes off, there is a pretty good chance that the radar detector is active in that veheicle.
CHP does not have radar detectors....they run radar for speed with front and rear antennas. The antennas pickup the speed of the vehicle...and no way can detect radar detectors.
I don't know what part of Calif. you are located in, but in northern calif. radar in CHP cars are alive and well giving out tickets. My Valentine radar picks them up all the time, especially on I-5. Some times they use airplanes to spot speeders with CHP's sitting on the "on ramps" waiting for description of the speeder
kaydeejay wrote: And DosX - if this isn't a speed trap, what is it???
It's obeying the posted speed limit.
"Missing" a warning sign is the driver's fault.
*Oh and actually the term "speed trap" which I'm saying doesn't exists is the kind you are talking about. The wrongly termed definition for what people misconstrue as a trick law enforcement use to ticket drivers. The origin of the term "speed trap" was a distance between objects that officers would use to time vehicles to determine the speed. Trap - "A measured length of roadway over which electronic timers register the speed of a racing vehicle, such as a dragster."
A word or phrase means exactly what a majority of people thinks it means. Historical meaning is just that - historical - and has no current relevance. It looks to me like you are talking definitions in order to deny the obvious.
If you do not believe there are areas in this country which have speed limits put into effect strictly to generate revenue, you are one of the most naive people with whom I have ever interacted. I have actually had an officer admit to the scam and tell me their job depended in their participation in it. They admitted that public safety has nothing to do with it.
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