‘I can’t drive 55!’ Radar Detectors? Legal or not?

According to the lawyer at this link, if convicted of having a radar or lidar in a commercial motor vehicle it carries 5 CSA/CVSA severity points plus any multiplier. 5 points is a bigger deal than a random equipment out of service.

Why pay $300 to have the box that can get you a couple hundred dollar ticket, plus speeding ticket, plus 5 points? Volunteering for one ticket/fine is bad enough, but multiple tickets/fines just to go 3 mph faster than you can speed without it?

 

Two key words
IF.... and ... IN

 

Any particular frequency for that tuning fork?

Also, a little bird once told me that laser can easily be jammed by running a high-powered fog light with a filter that only allows infrared light to pass through. I don't know how true that is, but I figured I'd mention it anyway.

 

There was a Particular freak wednesday but I don't remember .. that was along time ago

 

The companies that sell radar guns to the cops also sell the tuning forks to calibrate those radar guns. Look at how much work, time, and money is being wasted trying to feel better about driving what 3 MPH faster than the 5 MPH the cop will allow? Maybe instead of pretending you are going to drive 11 hours every day doing 3 mph faster than you can get away with by just reading the speed limit signs it would make more sense to work for someone that pays half a cent more per mile or doesn't routinely schedule you to deliver in 95% of the driving time between shipper and receiver? I know what it's like to drive every day wth the idea that anything that slows you down for 5 seconds will mean you will be late and then broke. All that does is jack up your blood pressure or wreck your health and the boss doesn't give a carp if you have a heart attack or stroke behind the wheel or not. Radar detectors are the "nutritional supplements" of the electronics world. A gullible audience willing to buy anything if some marketing guru just figures out the correct string of made up words to sell them.

Laser guns use very tiny receiver lenses because the laser is so coherent. The chances of some fog light hitting the laser gun "eye" is pretty dang remote, like throwing a bunch of keys at a lock will sometimes unlock it. It's not impossible, just so remote as to never work in a lifetime.

 

I had a RD that sometimes would react to laser. I'm not disagreeing with your position though. Because by the time you do get flashed by a laser gun the cop has the ticket half written.

 

I don’t intentional speed more than 5-7 mph

but the RD is handy for the podunk towns that ALWAYS have a cop sitting all day and all night in their speed trap dialing for dollars .
Oh you didn’t notice the speed limit dropped from 55 to 25 in one sign ?

they do it that way on purpose .



Odd how the greedy money hungry lazy cops always sit running for radar , but when an active shooter is in a school they are cowards and stay outside for an hour .

If they can move money from your pocket to theirs , they are super brave .
If someone is shooting you a school, they cower behind the car a half mile away .

 

What if someone claimed I can eat nothing but junk food and be healthy because I take these magic pills. Would that make sense? What if the people selling the magic pills said "yeah, we researched it and you can eat only junk food and be healthy if you take out magic pills." I drove in 48 states for 28 years and never got a speeding ticket by never speeding enough to wake the bears, even in CA, OH, VA etc.. Watching the speed limit signs is a duty of the CDL and the multiple devices drivers use for that task instead of doing it them self just make it easier for them to leave that to the devices. Would a driver drive more carefully with a sharpened steel spike pointing at him from the steering wheel hub or if there was an airbag in the steering wheel? Adding safety devices can frequently have the opposite effect by removing that sense of caution from the driver. "I don't have to be careful, I have ABS brakes/4-wheel drive, etc." Nobody is buying a device to remind them of what the speed limit is, but a device that hey think will give them time to slow down once a cop starts shooting radar. Radar/Lidar aren't the only ways to get a speeding ticket. If the cops were there to collect revenue EVERY speeding driver or every speeding out of town driver would get pulled over if they were doing even 1 mph over. That's not what s happening anywhere but in legends, usually from far away or long ago.

Nashville cops didn't wait 74 minutes outside of the school where an active shooter was murdering kids. If your PD is run by the wrong people and your city and state tolerate that, blame the voters. There is a reason why certain places in the world have successful societies and others have almost permanently failed societies. Make choices like the consequences are important.

 

The comedian Adam Carolla has always said that people would be much safer drivers if : , in every fifth car made , were filled with moose semen , instead of a working airbag.

 

It's funny how events in life can be reflected in these forums. Last night a friend came by to check on me. He took me on a quick trip to get some items I needed. Before he left he told me about his speeding ticket he got in New Mexico about a week ago. Down on I-10 about halfway between Lordsburg and Deming. Was charged with going 14 over. He said his bird dog never went off. It was about 3 in the morning and all of a sudden he saw the flashing lights behind him. I told him I guessed you got lasered. He said he did not think so but he would look at the ticket later. I then added I doubt it would have really mattered if the RD had gone off in that setting. By the time it went off the cop has measured your speed and is coming for you! I don't know because it has been over a decade since I was last in NM. I don't know what NM uses these days. I have heard they do use Lidar as well as clocking.