radar detectors

[marty]

Tell me with the old rules, were you had a instsnt ticket up till 50km over then it was of to court and the 50kmph was the limit for a cop car aswell (technicly, and I'm probely thinking back to MOT days) well what is the limit for cop cars now as above you tell it like you are doing 200k's with the boy's? and at what speed does a instsnt fine stop at?

51 k over is a traffic offence notice, roadside loss of licence, and a court appearance. $630 is the max instant fine, up to 50k over.

the pursuit guidelines have been well covered in previous threads - i had lights and siren going - they just didn't see me - too busy racing. there is no max speed policy.

[spudchucka]

Thanks for all the extraneous technical guff spud, but I already had it. Still doesn't answer the question though.
I'll just do some tests with a privately owned Stalker laser I know of.
The accuracy figure is interesting, John Kelly swears blind that our Stalkers are accurate to within .6 km/h. Due to 'special' software in our versions.
BTW scumdog, that must be some skilled cop that's able to hold the sight on a moving car at 1.8 km. They should send him to Iraq on a sniper team.

You know what? I can't even remember what the question was now and a can't be fecked reading back through. Let us know how your tests go.

[scumdog]

Thanks for all the extraneous technical guff spud, but I already had it. Still doesn't answer the question though.
I'll just do some tests with a privately owned Stalker laser I know of.
The accuracy figure is interesting, John Kelly swears blind that our Stalkers are accurate to within .6 km/h. Due to 'special' software in our versions.
BTW scumdog, that must be some skilled cop that's able to hold the sight on a moving car at 1.8 km. They should send him to Iraq on a sniper team.

Nah, Stalker was in a car, target car was coming over a rise at one end of a straight and cop car at the other end.
One oe the other of us has got our radar names screwed up but to my memeory I have never seen a stalker with sights om - rest assure if they did I could still use it at that range

[spudchucka]

Nah, Stalker was in a car, target car was coming over a rise at one end of a straight and cop car at the other end.
One oe the other of us has got our radar names screwed up but to my memeory I have never seen a stalker with sights om - rest assure if they did I could still use it at that range

Stalker is like a brand name. There are stalker radar units fitted to patrol cars and there are hand held stalker laser units. The laser units I've used weren't stalkers though they were "pro laser" as I recall.

[Racey Rider]

I passed a cop car last night which was parallel parked between two other car on the side of the road. He was sitting there in the dark, no tail lights on, but I could see the lights of the radar unit working on his dash. Is that allowed?
I thought they had to have their park lights on while "open for business" at night?

[marty]

when lou was a revenue collector they had to. not any more though

[dangerous]

when lou was a revenue collector they had to. not any more though

Owwwwww......... dats gona hurt.....hehehe

[scumdog]

I passed a cop car last night which was parallel parked between two other car on the side of the road. He was sitting there in the dark, no tail lights on, but I could see the lights of the radar unit working on his dash. Is that allowed?
I thought they had to have their park lights on while "open for business" at night?

I guess some people think it is "not fair" if they don't have their park-lights on?

[Racey Rider]

Just like to know they're playing by the rules,
even if I'm not.

[Lou Girardin]

Owwwwww......... dats gona hert.....hehehe

OOhhh, that did hurt. I'm cut to the quick.

[phil_elvey]

Hey my mate got pinged by an under cover the other day for doing 126 in his car, and he has a Valentine One (which was switched on). Why would that be, they don't have a new radar or anything do they? Or would it have just been an extremely unlikely case of some sort of interference stopping the radar from doing its job? He was mighty brassed anyway...

[spudchucka]

Hey my mate got pinged by an under cover the other day for doing 126 in his car, and he has a Valentine One (which was switched on). Why would that be,

The cop knew how to operate the radar correctly.

[Ghost Lemur]

Hey my mate got pinged by an under cover the other day for doing 126 in his car, and he has a Valentine One (which was switched on). Why would that be, they don't have a new radar or anything do they? Or would it have just been an extremely unlikely case of some sort of interference stopping the radar from doing its job? He was mighty brassed anyway...

Could it be, that the cop didn't have a lazer turned on? And did he's speed via following him. I'm pretty sure they can do that. Spudchucka will probably have a better idea.

[denill]

Hey my mate got pinged by an under cover the other day for doing 126 in his car, and he has a Valentine One (which was switched on). Why would that be,

Your mate wasn't pinged by radar detection..........

The cop was having him on......... Or just a calculated? guess, like they used to do in the old days.

Maybe he was just making up (literally) his quota

[wkid_one]

The cop knew how to operate the radar correctly.

That is rubbish Spud - even if the police person uses it correctly - the detector will still show a hit - it will just be too late to do anything about it. Only one of two things could account for this: 1. the detector is faulty, 2. He wasn't pinged by radar/laser