Police Radar display (for our friends on the force to answer)

[gav]

I take it the car was stationery when you took the photo, so why does it show 89 in green?

[spudchucka]

I take it the car was stationery when you took the photo, so why does it show 89 in green?

Like SM said, it locks both target and patrol speeds.

[pritch]

Pretty good eye sight if you managed to make out those reading whilst following the cop car - they don't look all too large from FEINT's picture.

I was thinking something like that. Hey, I'd count myself lucky if I saw the cop before he saw me :-)

[BNZ]

Ohh I know, cause I tried to use their own pursuit policy against them and they didnt follow it (in the circumstances I created the pursuit shoulda been terminated) then they were not absoloutly truthful about it in court... but I'm not pissed at all. I got caught fair n square.

Haha, yeah I know a few cops who have gone on past the 160 pursuit killer. Nice try though

[myvice]

Cop driving along, spots a car coming the other way, does a U-turn behind it and pulls it over.
Guy gets out of the car, yelling and screaming, tears a little black box off his dashboard and throws it at the ground, then starts jumping up and down on it, still ranting and raving.
Cop waits for a bit, then gets out and wanders over to the driver...
"What seems to be the problem?" he asks.
"This f#@king thing cost me $800 bucks and it didn’t even beep once!" He yells.
Cop replies "I don’t have a radar gun in the car sir, here’s your ticket for failing to wear a seat-belt"

[scumdog]

Haha, yeah I know a few cops who have gone on past the 160 pursuit killer. Nice try though

Had a pissed ding-a-ling down here who crashed his car at high speed on a 85kph bend when he saw the cop car coming up behind him.

Went to court for the drink driving, judge asked him why he tried going around the bend at speed.

His answer? He had heard the cops call off the chase if you go faster than 160kph and he was trying to get over that speed so the cop chasing him would stop!!!!!!!

[thehollowmen]

I remeber when they took me home, the one on the right was the one that was the police vehicle speed. We shot around doing 80-85 in a 50 zone, with hard braking and acceleration where the speed camera was.

That was lots of fun and I really wish it wasn't for such a bad reason.

[stanko]

I get a bit nervous when I dont have my radar detector ,even in the car. There are so many cops out there with radar you wouldnt belive it if you didnt have a detector.
My main problem is an operational one, when it goes off I tend to think "where is he" when I should be pulling on the anchors.
I have an escort 8500 and its pretty good, on the bike the YPVS makes it think there is a laser nearby, so I have to turn the laser detection off on the bike.
Radar detectors stop you getting pinged for lots of things other than speed, you get a headsup where they are and conform to mediocre rules.
Gives me the shits when a police car drives past and it doesnt go off, I suppose they arent all on Safari.

[Lou Girardin]

I get a bit nervous when I dont have my radar detector ,even in the car. There are so many cops out there with radar you wouldnt belive it if you didnt have a detector.
My main problem is an operational one, when it goes off I tend to think "where is he" when I should be pulling on the anchors.
I have an escort 8500 and its pretty good, on the bike the YPVS makes it think there is a laser nearby, so I have to turn the laser detection off on the bike.
Radar detectors stop you getting pinged for lots of things other than speed, you get a headsup where they are and conform to mediocre rules.
Gives me the shits when a police car drives past and it doesnt go off, I suppose they arent all on Safari.

What's YPVS and why does it transmit light?

[clint640]

Not necessarily. I think it's possible for the accuracy of the speedo to vary over the range, most likely it's set to be most accurate in the middle of its range which could mean that low or high speeds have larger errors.

You're dead right. I've compared the GPS to a few cage speedo's (on a closed private road under controlled conditions of course ) - they are typically close at 100 ish but over read wildly at go-straight-to-jail speeds.

Cheers
Clint

[madboy]

Why do I have this indepth knowledge of the operating procedures of HP officers and still get done for some ridiculous speed???
Ohh I know, cause I tried to use their own pursuit policy against them and they didnt follow it (in the circumstances I created the pursuit shoulda been terminated) then they were not absoloutly truthful about it in court... but I'm not pissed at all. I got caught fair n square.

Mate, don't want to turn this into a 5-0 bashing fest, but I've never met one yet who terminated it when it got too "dangerous". Only ones I know who've terminated it are when they've lost me - it seems getting on toward 3.5x the speed limit was quite okay so long as they could still see where i was going. But then, in fairness to those officers with common sense, most of the ones with common sense wouldn't take on a late model sportsbike anyway - not in the dry, car v bike.

Now back to the radar thingey... I thought only HP had rear facing antennae? Don't tell me the blimmin general duties and traffic fellas have it now too?! That's it, time to get the allen keys out and attack that piece of metal on the back of my bike...

[BNZ]

I have an escort 8500 and its pretty good, on the bike the YPVS makes it think there is a laser nearby, so I have to turn the laser detection off on the bike.

Laser falsing can often be caused by voltage fluctuations. You may need to install a voltage regulator of some sort to keep it within its opperational range.