radar detecting?
#12
radar detecting?
Originally posted by: Glenlivet
I'm positive that to anyone under 25 this is going to sound so lame, but it is true. I found the perfect way to avoid speeding tickets years ago. I'll share it with everyone here: I just drive at or below (Weather conditions dictating) the posted speed limit! Works like a charm. I have a stress-free trip, not scanning the road for possible speed traps and hiding spots. My license has been clean for many years now.
Let me share this one tip with you: You don't save that much time at all by speeding. There. I said it, and in my great youth I'd have considered this statement just the stupid sort of propaganda that the old fogies think the young are dumb enough to swallow, but I have found in my life it is true.
I am a paramedic. My partner and I swap off driving and attending on alternate days, and I've been at this career for 23 years. We are permitted to exceed posted speed limits and to bypass traffic controls while travelling with the emergency lights and siren activated. I have considerable experience in travelling the same roads both at legal posted speed limits and at a speed considerably faster and believe me, there isn't much difference at all until the total distance travelled is greater than fifty miles, and at that, if you are going the speeds that we often do, the risk of being cited becomes a virtual certainty.
A local ski hill that is 78 kilometers away is a frequent run, and given the winding highway and hills, and the fact that regardless our freedom to exceed the posted limit we still drive in a safe and prudent manner, the time saved over this run by travelling 'code three' is about five minutes. Whoopee.
If you're transporting an imminent breech birth then it's worth it, but otherwise what's the point?
I've seen a lot of badly injured and dead people that must have been looking for that saved five minutes.
Don't be one, please. I don't want that sort of job security.
I'm positive that to anyone under 25 this is going to sound so lame, but it is true. I found the perfect way to avoid speeding tickets years ago. I'll share it with everyone here: I just drive at or below (Weather conditions dictating) the posted speed limit! Works like a charm. I have a stress-free trip, not scanning the road for possible speed traps and hiding spots. My license has been clean for many years now.
Let me share this one tip with you: You don't save that much time at all by speeding. There. I said it, and in my great youth I'd have considered this statement just the stupid sort of propaganda that the old fogies think the young are dumb enough to swallow, but I have found in my life it is true.
I am a paramedic. My partner and I swap off driving and attending on alternate days, and I've been at this career for 23 years. We are permitted to exceed posted speed limits and to bypass traffic controls while travelling with the emergency lights and siren activated. I have considerable experience in travelling the same roads both at legal posted speed limits and at a speed considerably faster and believe me, there isn't much difference at all until the total distance travelled is greater than fifty miles, and at that, if you are going the speeds that we often do, the risk of being cited becomes a virtual certainty.
A local ski hill that is 78 kilometers away is a frequent run, and given the winding highway and hills, and the fact that regardless our freedom to exceed the posted limit we still drive in a safe and prudent manner, the time saved over this run by travelling 'code three' is about five minutes. Whoopee.
If you're transporting an imminent breech birth then it's worth it, but otherwise what's the point?
I've seen a lot of badly injured and dead people that must have been looking for that saved five minutes.
Don't be one, please. I don't want that sort of job security.
#13
radar detecting?
I can second everything Glenlivet wrote. I am also a paramedic and have expirienced the same thing. I don't know if it's the same in Canada where Glenlivet speaks from, but here in the states there is a big debate in the pre-hospital industry over whether ambulances should be able to exceed the speed limit. Studies have shown that speeding saves a negligible amount of time while greatly increasing the odds of injury and/or death.
#14
radar detecting?
glenlivet- i am 18 years old and believe it or not i agree with every single thing you said. a lot of my friends drive at high speeds (one in particular drives so crazy hes gonna end up orphaning some kids one day) but i always just go the speed limit, i rarely speed cuz like you said it barley makes you get there any faster. soon i will be buying a mustang that runs low 11 second quarter miles and i know i will be able to resist the temptation to go at insane speeds on the road. but the thing is around here we have the kind of cops that love to pull kids over. the will pull you over for the dumbest things. my friend who was changing the station on his radio and went onto the white line for half a second. a cop pulled him over said his car smelled like marijuana (hes never smoked in his life) and searched his entire truck. even the parents and teachers in this communtity agree that the cops are rediculous. for that reason alone i want a radar detector. specially when i get the stang. they love pullin kids over with nice cars. another story, they pulled my friend over the first day he got his chevelle and tried to arrest him for stealing a car, since he had just bought it (he payed for it with all his own money too) he hadn't recieved the insurance papers in the mail yet. i don't know but you have to drive absolutley perfect to not get pulled over around here and sometimes even thats not enough. so on with the radar detector talk!
#15
radar detecting?
hey bubba the phabtom does work. i have put mine to the test several times. it is a detector but also a jammer. there are two types of jammers out there. the passive which is what they phantom II is and an active which is concidered illegal. the phantom scrambles the radar for 30sec i believe then shuts off. it also detects the radar at the same time which gives you time to slow down. the active scrambles al the time. i've been using these devices for the last 10 years and haven't gotten a ticket since and i drive several hundred miles a year from state to state. the blinder m-10 is the best on the market right now.
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