Radar Detectors

[RichM96067]

Valentine 1

 

[schmism]

I agree that speeding (over 10 over) is unnecessary. For every 10 mph over 55, your chances of dying in a crash, should it happen, double. That means if you're one of the yahoos who hang out in the left lane with your V1, going 85 mph, if you should crash, chances of dying is 8X that of a vehicle traveling 55 mph.

that reads as factual information. Either back it up with real statistics or is just propaganda BS.

On the other hand, if you were to run off the highway in your 1989 chevy s10 pickup when the road is wet at 50mph (less than posted speedlimt) and slam head on into a tree, i get to spend 20 mins cutting you out and airlifting you to the nearest hospital were you have both legs (tib-fibs) broke, requiring multiple surgeries to fix, pins, screws etc and will likely loose an eye due to the head injury. Yes you were wearing your seatbelt else you would be dead. (yes that was a call i responded to a couple of weeks ago)

vs me running off the road in my 2000 540i BMW with 8 air bags and walking away with a few bumps and bruses.

so speed is not just the only factor of how injured or not you are in a wreck. So a blanket statement saying the faster you go the more chance you die is just flat out wrong.

 

[Bird]

Yes, Steve, we know if you want to nitpick enough, you could write a book and still probably not cover all the variables involved in determining whether a person is injured, or how bad the injuries are, and on and on and on, but the fact is that all other things being equal, the faster you were going when you came to that sudden stop, the more likely you are to sustain more serious injuries or death, and the more likely you are to kill or injure someone else. In fact, my own training in the Dallas Police Department, the Northwestern University Traffic Institute, and books in the Northwestern University Transportation Library that I read probably still didn't cover all the variables.

There used to be a traffic slogan that said, "Speed Kills". Well, we know that actually speed doesn't kill, but it sure does increase the severity, both of property damage and personal injury when an accident does occur.

When my youngest daughter was still a teenager, she wrecked and totalled a car, supposedly blew a tire, lost control, and turned the car up on its side. Fortunately she didn't hit anything to cause a sudden stop, she was wearing her seat belt (no air bags back then), no damage to anything except her car, and very minor injuries to her. The next day, I went with her to retrieve personal property from the car in the auto pound. I found that property to include a radar detector and said it could go in the nearest garbage can. She said it was an expensive one that a boyfriend had given her so she didn't think it should go in the garbage can. As I threw in the garbage can, I told her if I ever caught her with one again, she would not have a drivers license as long as she lived in my house.

 

[coobie]

I have a question why don,t we start a seperate thread on how speed kills?How about keeping this thread to the questions asked about which radar detector to buy and where they are legal.coobie

 

[xlr82v2]

Yep, and every driver on the road is convinced that he knows when it's a safety issue, right up until he crashes. And how much quicker do you get to your destination? Do a little math sometime and it'll probably surprise you when you find out you only saved 2 to 5 minutes on most local trips. And in spite of what you know, you actually risked your life as well as that of others on the road. The thing that bothers me is that it's usually an innocent person killed instead of the one speeding. But the speeder knows it wasn't really his fault.

So, do you say it is a safe operation for the cop to hang a U turn right in the middle of the highway and accelerate up to 100mph+ and then have to lock up the brakes to decelerate back to 60 before he flat runs over the guy just to pull someone over that was doing 60 in a 55 on open highway?

That's what happened to me last week. All for a verbal warning. Stupid cop.

 

[Bird]

Brian, so far the only place they've been able to recruit police officers is from the human race, so in spite of all the tests, background investigations, etc., some of them shouldn't have been in that job (what profession do you know of that doesn't have some like that?). So some make some of the same dumb mistakes that the other drivers on the road make. Come to think of it, who among us has not made a dumb mistake or two in our lives?

 

[Wheatland KB]

As I threw in the garbage can, I told her if I ever caught her with one again, she would not have a drivers license as long as she lived in my house.

Sounds like you went to the same school of parenting as I. I'll bet she turned out to be a responsible young lady.

 

[Bird]

Sounds like you went to the same school of parenting as I. I'll bet she turned out to be a responsible young lady.

Yeah, I wish I had her energy and was making as much money as she's making. And now she's just started back to college, working on a master's degree.

 

[xlr82v2]

Brian, so far the only place they've been able to recruit police officers is from the human race, so in spite of all the tests, background investigations, etc., some of them shouldn't have been in that job (what profession do you know of that doesn't have some like that?). So some make some of the same dumb mistakes that the other drivers on the road make. Come to think of it, who among us has not made a dumb mistake or two in our lives?

Very true!

 

[Wheatland KB]

That was a bit of my hijack and I do apologize.