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Speeding ticket

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Not sure but it happened to me a month ago.  It was silly too because while I admit I was speeding and in the wrong (was going 53 in a 45, he said 57) I was being passed at the time and he pulled me.  Not sure how that happens.

 

Six weeks earlier I was pulled over for not signaling while changing lanes.  I was stunned.

 

Before 2-28-14 I had one ticket in my life.  I have two since then.  Anyway, I decided do most of my drinking at home since then, just in case these things come in three.

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I once got arrested by the CHP and while in the back seat the cop had two separate digital monitors that could give him the MPH of cars approaching even though we were going around a bend and the cars were not visible.  I had to question him about it, and he confirmed that their radar was pretty damn good.

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I once got arrested by the CHP and while in the back seat the cop had two separate digital monitors that could give him the MPH of cars approaching even though we were going around a bend and the cars were not visible.  I had to question him about it, and he confirmed that their radar was pretty damn good.

 

I once got arrested by the CHP...

 

Okay, I couldn't care less about the radar, but I gotta ask the obvious question....

 

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I know they can check it by pointing a gun at you, but if he's moving toward me, shouldn't the closing speed be skewed?

 

Back story- I live near the Cape Fear Tech North campus, and there are sometimes a few Brunswick County-Topsail- Leland police or sheriff cars on the  ide of the road. I always assumed they had installed some equipment and were testing it. So, I'm driving to town for dinner, a white Charger heading towards me pulls off the road, and immediately spins around to follow me. I look down, I'm doing about 50 (in a 45, I admit). Slow down and pull over, he pulls over, too. "I pulled you over because you were doing 60 in a 45." "No, sir, as soon as you pulled off the road I looked down, and I was doing 45-50." After about 10 minutes, he brings me a ticket. I didn't have to sign anything, he just gave me a ticket and left. I think they were looking for a car similar to mine, and once he pulled me, I was getting a ticket for something.

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I once got arrested by the CHP...

 

Okay, I couldn't care less about the radar, but I gotta ask the obvious question....

 

I was a passenger in a car that had 4 pounds of weed, 2oz of heroin and a couple of guns in the trunk.  We both got arrested and the driver admitted the stuff was his, and I ended up having my charges dropped.

 

Short Story.

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It's been awhile, but I used to work as a mechanic at a Ford dealership. The North Charleston police sent their Crown Vics to the dealership I worked at for repairs, which meant I worked on a few of them. The vehicles radar gun was tethered to the car's speedometer, so the device compensates for the speed of the cops vehicle.

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Yeah pretty sureit calculates the difference between the speed.

You can challenge it though band I would if you're pretty sure you weren't speeding.

 

I wouldn't. It's pretty simple math, really. We used it all the time in the Navy while maneuvering with other ships close by. It's called "closure rate." With a basic navigation radar you know what your speed is and the distance from the other guy. You simply plot the other guy with a stop watch and after a couple marks, you know his speed.

 

Police radar works the same way, it knows what speed you're doing and it just calculates the amount of time it takes to close a distance, turning that rate into speed.

 

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I know they can check it by pointing a gun at you, but if he's moving toward me, shouldn't the closing speed be skewed?

 

Back story- I live near the Cape Fear Tech North campus, and there are sometimes a few Brunswick County-Topsail- Leland police or sheriff cars on the  ide of the road. I always assumed they had installed some equipment and were testing it. So, I'm driving to town for dinner, a white Charger heading towards me pulls off the road, and immediately spins around to follow me. I look down, I'm doing about 50 (in a 45, I admit). Slow down and pull over, he pulls over, too. "I pulled you over because you were doing 60 in a 45." "No, sir, as soon as you pulled off the road I looked down, and I was doing 45-50." After about 10 minutes, he brings me a ticket. I didn't have to sign anything, he just gave me a ticket and left. I think they were looking for a car similar to mine, and once he pulled me, I was getting a ticket for something.

 

The radar is supposed to know the speed of the car it's installed in. Say 60mph.

 

Cop guns you and you're doing 60. The closure rate is 120mph, but since the radar knows it's doing 60, it also knows you're doing 60. Challenging any radar from a local cop is not a bad idea if you have the time to spend because of the calibrations and adjustments that are required.

 

If it's a state trooper, forget it.

 

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