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Re: Flashing headlights & RADAR Detectors

Subject: Re: Flashing headlights & RADAR Detectors
From: James Charles Ruwaldt <jruwaldt@indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 19:36:23 -0500 (EST)
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net

On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Tom Tweed wrote:

> Last week, JOE IV made too much sense when he wrote :
> 
> [snipped]
> 
>  >
>  >  As far as I know,only "permanantly installed and operational" (your
>  >interpretation may vary) RADAR detectors are illegal in CT.  If you
>  >have one either concealed or "temporarily placed on the dashbaord"
>  >you might not be ticketed.  Connecticut has no detector detectors
>  >-again as far as I know- like Virginia has, so if a police man dosen't
>  >see your "operational("But officer, it was just sitting here, unplugged,
>  >on my way from New York to Massachusetts") RADAR detection device",
>  >you won't get caught.
>  >  Be warned however, that the first thirty miles going north from New
>  >York
>  >on I-95 are efectively "RADAR jammed", by the D.O.T.'s  highway
>  >traffic flow maintainance RADAR monitoring system. In this area,the
>  >State Police use LASER tracking to ascertain the speed of passing mot-
>  >orists.  Good luck, it's a jungle out there, and just don't speed..;^)
>                                                    ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^
>  >                               JOE IV
>  >                               TR 250
>  >                          WALLINGFORD, CT. USA
>  >
> 
> 
> ..and I must second that, although we all know it's not the speed that
> kills.  However, anyone must admit that in a crash, speed is most def-
> initely a factor, and high speed is an aggravating factor, to put it
> in legalese.  Think about it...you see that you are about to be hit by
> a baseball, you know that you just don't have time to out-maneuver it;
> would you prefer what launched that ball at you to be an under-hand lob,
> or a Nolan Ryan fastball ???  The mass is the same, but the speed makes
> all the difference, and that alone, ISTM, is the logic behind the speed
> laws.  Now that any half-wit can buy a RADAR detector and make believe
> that he can drive just like the Dukes of Hazzard on your crowded free-
> way, I see a conflict...the half-wit thinks he has just bought a lic-
> ense to fly, and the police get an attitude about all drivers with
> RADAR detectors, since there are plenty of half-wits out there, driving
> like they're Special Cases, immune to traffic laws and common sense.
>    Well, guess what, we're ALL special cases, in that argument, or
> else, none of us is...and should just read our speedometers and the
> road signs (and the traffic, and the weather, etc,etc,) and not push
> our luck or our half-second margin for error.
> Soap box mode off, thank you,
> Tom Tweed
> SW Ohio
> 
> 
Why, if speed laws are so well-thought out, is the speed unlimited on the
Autobahnen, where the country is so much smaller than ours?
Jim Ruwaldt
'72 TR6 CC79338U
Bloomington, IN



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