SLD920X radar detector/jammer - does it actually work??

Jun 2005 17:23:08 GMT:

Dang it, If I knew four people who could do a test like this, I'd do it. It would require a timer at each end of the trip, and two drivers. It obviously couldn't be made "double-blind", but they could go from point A to point B and back with guy 1 in car alpha, and then have guy 1 and 2 switch cars, and then go from point A to point B and back again, with a timer[1] on each end.

Another thing I'd like to do if I won the lottery is hire the blimp, and take aerial videos of traffic patterns. I might throw it up on the board in my "electricity is like water" lecture. ;-P

If an alien in a starship parked at a couple hundred thousand feet, would transit routes look like bloodvessels?

Thanks! Rich

I didn't think they did such silliness since the double-nickel crap. My mini-peekup has a 120MPH speedometer, though I don't think I'm going to test it soon.

The "safe" speed is supposed to be set at the 85th percentile. Other than school-zones and such where the speed may change wrt time, I think this is a rather sane target.

Limiter? What's that, a governor? They actually control how fast you can drive?

I used to have car which had 140km/h (87mph) as the *center* of the speedometer. Top of the speedometer scale was twice that.

Superhighways were (and probably still are) banked for 120mph. But

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

What NG are you strange people posting from?

Thanks, Rich

And here, I was thinking that I was to fault here for cross-pollinating.

But interestingly, this time, it wasn't my fault! ;-D

Possibly less interestingly, my news client (pan on Slack) whines at me when I send this crosspost - it seems to think that there are no such NGs as alt.uk.law or uk.rec.driving. Are my posts getting to those NGs even though they're not on my server? (Verizon.net) (The computer doesn't whine about uk.legal .)

Thanks! Rich

Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote on Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:23:08 GMT:

The fast guy was obviously not very good at going fast.

Yes, this 1986 Fiero:

Feh. This is just stupid. Or just plain non sequitur. And Williams, your news client doesn't attribute properly.

Thanks, Rich

C'mon. A speedometer that's got 174 MPH as its highest cal mark? Or was it some yurp dart that went to 280 KPH? I drove a Mercedes once, and it was doing well just to get onto the entrance ramp. What a cow! (I was designated driver, never mind it's an entirely different story).

I've had at least two close calls at this sort of speed, with kids who weren't paying attention and darted out into traffic. It was lucky for everybody that I'm empathic and a little bit clairvoyant, because I somehow knew - I "had a knowing": "There's a kid about to dart out in front of you." I responded to my "knowing", and didn't run over the little bastards. One was facilitated by the ball that came bouncing across the street ("Slow down now, there's a kid behind that ball") and the other was when two skateboarders came shooting from a cross-street, and somehow I knew to slow for the third skateboarder that I somehow knew was on the way. He missed me by inches.

Of course, if you're going to be playing ball or skateboarding on the expressway, then you deserve to be Darwinned. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

That is just so wrong. Plenty of factors would influence the difference in arrival time, unless the 400 mile trip was made in heavy traffic, then the faster guy would arrive a lot earlier than the slow guy more so, if the rolling traffic jams that we call caravans and lorries were taken out of the equation.

Why do you think that will prevent you getting nabbed.

During a coast to coast blast in 2003 I encountered a Kansas state trooper sitting in the ditch that is the central reservation (about

Or slower...at .25 second reaction time, 25 MPH, the vehicle travels about 9 feet before you even begin to react. You can realistically only go so low with this, leaving the rest of the responsibility on the young people you mention.

The last time I saw this addy it was Chris P Bacon and it was anthony bournes then too. pete

Wes Stewart wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Why couldn't they use the same 155mph speedo for both cars,but retain the

I Agree.

If you're really interested in that sort of thing then you could do a lot worse than pick up a copy of "Cannonball! World's Greatest Outlaw Road Race" by Brock Yates.

It's really quite a fascinating read.

Sorry about the wrap.

Spehro Pefhany wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

It's mostly for lawsuit protection.Keeps people from exceeding the limits of their tires;most people are unaware of such things like speed ratings of their car's tires.

depends on the time of day/night,whether vehicles are parked on the streets,whether any kids are in sight-with a clear sight view of the street,(parked cars prevent this.)and other variables,that people are perfectly capable of judging themselves,if they apply their brains while driving. But I'm not advocating 100 mph on city streets.I've been through a lot of neighborhoods where somewhat higher speeds(maybe 35-40mph) were perfectly safe,and some where I crawl through at 10-15mph,because of poor sight lines,kids around,etc.

Mark Foster wrote in news:m.e.fosterREMOVEMEFIRST-15F438.19444928062005@ptn-nntp- reader03.plus.net:

Uh,we were discussing LASER speed guns.Not radar,for which lack of a front plate has little effect.

uk.rec.driving We're all really good friends apart from the carping, sniping, piss-taking and name calling. Just one big happy family really, in fact "Mark Foster" and "Conor" are getting married next week and I'm due out of the asylum, errrrr sometime.

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Yep, an old POS.

Call it what you will. I call it the truth.

It's set to "IN article , says...", so? It's Gravity's default.