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E. Faubion wrote in message <359c3595.33910049@news.okc.oklahoma.net>...
>"MARK F FOLSOM" <FOLSOMMAN@prodigy.net> wrote:
>
>>I think a great use of radar is leaving it on at an accident scene where
>>oncoming traffic is likely to come on it without much visual warning.
>
>We already do that but with these new Stalker Ka's most detectors
>don't sound off anyway so we have to ask someone with the older x-band
>units to turn theirs on.  If visibility at the crash scene is a
>problem we'll station an officer or two further down the road so
>everyone can have advance warning, not just a select few.
>

It's an arms race, and I can update my technology when you update yours.

>>My detector has paid for itself several times, especially when they have
>>those multi-cruiser harvesting operations going.
>
>That's assuming you'd have been stopped without it each time.   Based
>on some tests we ran a few years ago the odds are actually higher
>because (at that time at least) the detector equipped motorist was
>more likely to be speeding thereby greatly increasing the odds.
>

I'm always speeding when I can on freeways, just like I was before I got my
radar detector.

>>Of course, aI know I can
>>get nailed anyway, but my odds are better with it than without and the
state
>>can use a little money once in a while.
>
>Actually the odds are about even here.  If you get stopped without a
>detector the officer may issue a warning or make it a no-point cite.
>With the detector it's a full blown ticket every time.

Maybe you do, but I've gotten warnings when I was going quite fast and my
detector was in the open on the dashboard.  Of course, different cops have
different personalities...

>We kind of
>figure that evens things up a little bit.  On top of that most traffic
>court judges will also increase the fines to the max if the evidence
>shows the detector was in use.
>

I used to drive along at or just a few mph above the speed limit without
watching for cruisers and I got tickets a lot and the officers would
generally pad a few mph onto my speed, especially if I was driving alone.
Now I drive very fast and watch out continually for cruisers as well as
using my detector.  I get fewer tickets, I get where I'm going faster, I
enjoy driving more, I'm just as safe as I ever was, my tickets are usually
for less than my actual speed, and I feel a lot better about it when I do
get a ticket.  I go to traffic school once every two or three years and pay
$150-200 and my insurance doesn't go up.  The cost is less than $1.00 per
hour saved.

>By the way, how's the computer program coming along?  I realize it
>takes a little time to write so I'm just wondering.
>

It's trivial and stupid and I'm not going to write it.  I can make a program
that says anything I want it to.  You didn't require that it relate in any
way to reality.

>Have a good weekend.

I had a good month.


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Mark Folsom, P.E.
Consulting Mechanical Engineer
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