Re: POLL: Fastest speed you've ever driven (or ridden) in an auto...


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On Mar 12, 7:46 pm, "NapalmHeart"
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On Mar 12, 3:36 am, "NapalmHeart"
Rereading the poorly phrased statement, I
agree
with you on this point. I will disagree with
the
statement on how long it takes for radar to
get
a
reading. Taking reaction time into
consideration,
very few people can react fast enough to make
enough of a difference.

Ken

Um ... yeah? Did you catch the part where I
dropped 60 mph in the
time it took for the police officer in Florence,
Mississippi to reach
up and gun me?

Went from 105 mph to 45 mph in a matter of
seconds.

But the 2-3 second thing is completely
consistent
with my experience.
If I got caught absolutely cold going over 100,
invariably my ticket
was for around 90 mph.
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Going back over this thread, this is the 1st
reference I see to Florence, MS.

How much experience are we talking about,
anyway?

Ken

"Once, I passed a police car in Florence,
Mississippi on my way to
see
some buddies. I typically would make
Memphis-to-Jackson in 2 hours,
stop to refuel,for 15 minutes, then make
Jackson-to-Hattiesburg in 45
minutes, 300 miles in 3 hours. On this trip,
night had just fallen,
and out of the corner of my eye I noticed a car
sitting in the median
of Hwy 49 with its lights off. I passed it going
105 in a 45 zone,
and immediately leaned on my brakes so hard my car
felt like it was
upended at a 45 degree angle. By the time my
radar detector went
off,
I looked down at my speed, and I was at 45 mph."

I spent about three years driving like a bat out
of hell, then calmed
it down a bit after I nearly got decapitated by
some idiot trucker.

Nowadays, I drive pretty close to the limit, and
keep it pretty calm,
but get about the same number of tickets per year.
I think that tells
you something about how broken the system is,
because THEN I was a
danger to myself and others and NOW I'm just a
middle aged dude
carting his kids to soccer in a minivan. Traffic
tickets are not
there to keep the roads safe: they are there to
generate revenue,
plain and simple.
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Isn't it within the realm of possibility that the
cop's reaction time was slow enough that you had
made the majority of your slow-down before he
activated the radar? Maybe the guy was busy with
paperwork or was resting his eyes. ;+)

I've been driving too fast for most of the 34
years I've been driving. Get fewer tickets now
because I likely don't drive as fast as much as I
used to, that and the speed limiter on our car
preventing me from going over 108. ;+) Also, I
didn't have a radar detector for the first 6 or 8
years of driving. AFA the revenue generation
part, maybe some, but there's no way a cop, at
least in my area, can even begin to offset the
cost of having an officer and car on patrol. I'm
involved in my township's government and it cost
us about $63,000 last year to pay for 37.5 hours
per week of extra dedicated patrol time from our
county sheriff's department. The fees we received
from traffic enforcement generated under $10,000
for our revenue. We don't look at paying for the
extra coverage as being an investment to get more
revenue, more so as a disincentive to people
committing real crime and/or increasing our
chances of having criminals caught.

Each state might be different on where the money
goes. Here, part goes to the courts, part to the
county and state, and part to the library system.
It's likely the potholes in the northern regions
have as much or more effect on speeds as
enforcement does.

Best Wishes to you and yours. Likely both luck
and skill had a hand in neither of us hurting
people with extra-legal speeds.






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