Saved By A Radar Detector

[GDixon]

Last week, while blazing across western Washington state, a sneaky speed trap was run into. The road was long, straight, lightly traveled, and fairly flat. The officer was parked behind an overpass hill in the center median pointed my direction. Yes, my speed was probably somewhere between 90 and 100 mph as is my habit on an open, clear road and is the reason a radar detector is used.

Anyway, the radar was blocked by the overpass hill and the signal was picked up late. The brakes were slammed on and then the signal hit fully and the detector was screaming. The officer looked right at me from his car and started to pursue. Of course then I went the 70 mph speed limit but he pulled me over. My crime was going 64 mph! He tried to get me to admit that my speed was much faster but playing dumb put him off that track. My speed was never actually checked by me but giving a number would have allowed him to write a ticket for 5 or 10 mph under and then claim that I made an admission of speeding.

Then he started in about giving me a ticket because of a "sound" and he knew that I had a radar detector so speeding must have been an issue since nobody goes 64 mph on that stretch of road. Radar detectors must put off a small signal of some kind that can be picked up by the police. Does anyone know some facts about this?

The bottom line was that he let me go but his frustration showed as he asked me, "What will it take to get you to slow down?". I told him that I was getting off the freeway in a few miles and that it is hard to go fast on side roads. My wife was aghast at this answer. He just shook his head, gave me back my license and registration, went back to his car, and drove off. I've never been a liar and wasn't about to start to save my rear end.

Thanks for "listening".

BTW, the 111 mph speed limiter on the RX350 works just fine. :(

[dcfish]

Last week, while blazing across western Washington state, a sneaky speed trap was run into. The road was long, straight, lightly traveled, and fairly flat. The officer was parked behind an overpass hill in the center median pointed my direction. Yes, my speed was probably somewhere between 90 and 100 mph as is my habit on an open, clear road and is the reason a radar detector is used.

Anyway, the radar was blocked by the overpass hill and the signal was picked up late. The brakes were slammed on and then the signal hit fully and the detector was screaming. The officer looked right at me from his car and started to pursue. Of course then I went the 70 mph speed limit but he pulled me over. My crime was going 64 mph! He tried to get me to admit that my speed was much faster but playing dumb put him off that track. My speed was never actually checked by me but giving a number would have allowed him to write a ticket for 5 or 10 mph under and then claim that I made an admission of speeding.

Then he started in about giving me a ticket because of a "sound" and he knew that I had a radar detector so speeding must have been an issue since nobody goes 64 mph on that stretch of road. Radar detectors must put off a small signal of some kind that can be picked up by the police. Does anyone know some facts about this?

The bottom line was that he let me go but his frustration showed as he asked me, "What will it take to get you to slow down?". I told him that I was getting off the freeway in a few miles and that it is hard to go fast on side roads. My wife was aghast at this answer. He just shook his head, gave me back my license and registration, went back to his car, and drove off. I've never been a liar and wasn't about to start to save my rear end.

Thanks for "listening".

BTW, the 111 mph speed limiter on the RX350 works just fine. :(

My detector has saved my !Removed! more than once and has paid for itself over and over..............My apoligies Good for you

[LexKid630]

My detector has saved my !Removed! more than once and has paid for itself over and over..............FKN PGS :chairshot: Good for you

I second that! They are one of the best investments a fast driver can make. It saves you once, and pays for itself!

I wouldn't understand how an officer could tell if you had a radar detector. The detector doesn't affect the returning signals.

[smooth1]

VG2 is the radar detector, detector. I think they have VG2 and Stalcar. But they generally only use Stalcar in states where radar detectors are illegal.( Virginia and DC., well, ok, 1 state and 1 not so a state, but anyway.)

A Radar Detector Detector uses the same characteristics as a radar detector. Both search for a certain frequency to warn the operator that a device is being used. In this case, a radar detector detector searches for a radar detector in operation. Since all electronic devices emits some type of an electronic signature, this is what a detector detector is tuned for, a detector's Local Oscillator.

There are different kinds of Radar Detector Detectors. There are either a specially made unit or a modified radar detector to search for radar detectors. Two that are in operations are the VG-2 Interceptor and the Stalcar. Others are actual radar detectors that are tuned to look for radar detectors. If you have run a detector before and had it good off as you pass another vehicle, this is called cross talk. This is what a tuned detector searches for.

I have the 9500i as my copilot. I swear by them also.

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FKN PGS

I think this is a pretty nasty thing to say...you should be ashamed of yourself for saying something like that.

Now, I'm no fan of speed limits and I think for the most part they are designed to drive revenue into the jurisdciton's coffers as they're usually set artificially low. However, its not the officer's fault the system is designed the way it is, and if he was saying things like "What will it take to get you to slow down?" it sounds to me like he was trying to make GD understand the danger he percieved with what he was doing, he knew there was no way he could give him a ticket.

He's just doing his job, and its a completely thankless, very dangerous, and extremely low paying job. Why call him such a dispicable name?

Be angry at the people who make the laws, set the speed limits, and lean on officers for not writing enough tickets. This guy's just a public servant who makes less in a year than you paid for your car. Give him a break.

As for "good for you", at 111MPH in a 70MPH zone, at 41MPH over the posted limit if GD had gotten a ticket, it absolutely wouldn't have been anybody's fault but his own. Thats reckless driving, he could have rolled out of there in the back seat of a squad car. Good for him, he got away with agregiously breaking the law!

[dcfish]

FKN PGS

I think this is a pretty nasty thing to say...you should be ashamed of yourself for saying something like that.

Now, I'm no fan of speed limits and I think for the most part they are designed to drive revenue into the jurisdciton's coffers as they're usually set artificially low. However, its not the officer's fault the system is designed the way it is, and if he was saying things like "What will it take to get you to slow down?" it sounds to me like he was trying to make GD understand the danger he percieved with what he was doing, he knew there was no way he could give him a ticket.

He's just doing his job, and its a completely thankless, very dangerous, and extremely low paying job. Why call him such a dispicable name?

Be angry at the people who make the laws, set the speed limits, and lean on officers for not writing enough tickets. This guy's just a public servant who makes less in a year than you paid for your car. Give him a break.

As for "good for you", at 111MPH in a 70MPH zone, at 41MPH over the posted limit if GD had gotten a ticket, it absolutely wouldn't have been anybody's fault but his own. Thats reckless driving, he could have rolled out of there in the back seat of a squad car. Good for him, he got away with agregiously breaking the law!

My apoligies