How Do Cops Catch Speeders 

They can turn it off.

thought the same thing

They make up the speed they want regardless.

It's not the sound, I'm pretty sure the volume is adjustable. It's the donut withdrawal :)

you right

sooperphattman That and stop signs on a daily basis. Also turning to or from the wrong lane.

sooperphattman i get more annoyed with littering biggest one flicking cigarette butts out the window... was on the bike once had one land in my lap and burn a hole in my jeans. You dont want your car to stink, dont smoke in it, you can wait 30mins

Philly_Ink, I smoke and I despise people that do that. They screwed up smoking at work because of morons dumping ashtrays in the parking lot. I do have one exception in which I will flick one out. If someone is riding my ass, I'll flick one straight up and try to play the wind to hit their windshield. It's pretty effective. They usually back off.

I get annoyed by people who don't realize their turn signal is permanently on.

I drive a BMW, turn signals are new for the 2019 model year. Mine's a 2018, so... 🤷‍♂️

To use radar in California, a street has to be surveyed. They use radar to determine the speed of 100 cars. They take an average of what 80% of the cars speed and that sets the limit.

@@rickuyeda4818 they legally have to do that in other states too but they don’t

100.percent. Speed limits should be set at the 85th percentile. On most limited access highways, the speed limit should be around 80. Most are 70 or 75. It's far better than in the 80s when speed limits were 55 and 65 mph.

@@GarryReyomlower limits persuade people to drive faster where it is safe thus leading to higher revenue for the municipality/etc+. For example, a straight road with minimal intersections and long visibility might be marked 45 when 60 would be safe. Set up some speed traps and rake in the money

Lmao - and he likes cheesesteaks

A cop with a RU-vid channel going undercover ? LOL

Dude I was thinking the same thing..his civilian clothes arent helping him at all🤣

I'm curious. How would you do a interrogatory and deposition on a traffic case? Or does it come after the start of the traffic court proceeding?

Q: Were the questions asked in Court when the officer was sworn in? If so the officer should be held by the court for LYING, and there should be some penalties accessed against him, his supervisor / upper management for not be properly trained and let out on the road to write tickets which drive up peoples insurance, Police are out of control, they need to have some kind of oversight board. Bad / lying cops should be FIRED.

I once went to court for a speeding ticket 15 years ago and asked for proof of the officer's radar calibration and the officer said he didn't need to prove or show anything to me or the court. Then the judge took over and defended the cop saying that he doesn't need to produce such documentation, because "he's an officer of the law and he has been sworn to tell the truth". Okay judge lady... I asked the judge if she was acting on behalf of the prosecution and boy...was she heated! "How dare you?!" ... Yup. Everyone in the courtroom gasped when I asked that. Fun times :D Judge didn't make me pay the fine, but still hit me with 2 points on my license

Cops lie and is legal for them to lie to you. If we lie we get charged with stuff and it goes on your record.

Absolute savage here. Well done.

Edward Hartgrove thats a good one!😂 Sounds like you had fun

Were those really used for speed enforcement? They're still used here, but only for long term auditing of average speed and amount of traffic on a specific stretch of road.

There is still a bunch in my town/city in northern Michigan. not used for enforcement though.

actually they're used for traffic surveys. The MUTCD states that all roads must have a speed limit of 55 with the exception of residential zones and interstate highways. In order for a road to have a lower speed limit a traffic survey has to be done and the findings must conclude that 55 would be unsafe. This has to be done every 5 years. It's a federal mandate. if your state receives federal highway funds (they all do) they have to adhere to the MUTCD.

Edward Hartgrove lol.

NJ does. I got a ticket for it once. Learned my lesson!

@@qman66 I can tell you Alabama. Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas don't. I think people are illiterate and or disrespectful because in those states traveling across 1-10 way to many people cruise in left lane causing traffic to pile up together.

They do, in Phoenix they have undercover units (one looks like a regular pickup) specifically for carpool lanes, the fines are steep.

Georgia does a good job of it

@@johnsmith-qe2fd one of my daughters lives in Mesa and I go there and visit often. I know Phoenix has the stupid HOV lanes with morons going slower than the traffic to their right.

This comment was golden im speechless

highly underrated

The worst thing or the most dangerous driving is the slow ffkk driver.

Yea you will be arrested and your dog will be shot

Yes!!!

There's no houses on the autobahn.

also people on the autobahn understand that staying on the right is for the slow cars

@Mike Dylan And most of the time they're wrong and just wanna give tickets. But near houses, near schools, near stores, parks, I think it's fair.

Mike Dylan complete racket. "Reckless driving", it's crazy that this is still an option this easily. NoVA has gotten a lot better, but the law on thr books is trash

Been on that once. Interesting experience

Laura C. XD

FUNNY!!!!

I so appreciate you. XD

Lol

Technically he is 911.

A modern car is more than capable of 100mph on the freeway. I can see 60/65 for high traffic parts, but the middle of bum fuck nowhere?

@@MrBinks-un8ju Lmao I didn't see this for 9 months, but yes, agreed. 100 on rural interstates seems more than reasonable. Honestly, there should only be recommended speed signs for flat interstates in the middle of literally nowhere.

Michigan is great Haha. Bumped up to 75mph for a lot of areas in northern lower peninsula.

you think youre screwing over cops but youre helping them not do paper work or come out to scenes where idiots crashed

@@zappazgaming7453 lol the Southfield freeway is our autobahn

thank God for Waze! I am encouraging all my friends and family members to use it! much better than laser/radar detectors.. also ur right 60 is too slow, even the 70MPH interstate average has crept up on modern day travel speed as being too slow, cars these days have much safer suspension than cars did when the average interstate speed limit of 70 MPH was put into place... we need to petition the department of transportation to raise limits to at least 80-85

RED_10R Waze 👍

Kind of makes me nervous, actually. Thought they would be better trained than to signal false threats.

@@drewpierpont3361 just like humans, dogs understand when they're working and when they're not. As Mike said, they weren't working, so the dog is just a regular dog, but when his vest (or whatever his dept uses) goes on, the dog knows it's time to go to work.

Do you ever think normal dogs see police dogs and think "shit a cop!"?

Probably was illegally peeing in s private property lol.

@@MinZilla I wonder, police dogs are well trained lol

Rocketjump studios did an awesome take on that

90% of the time, at least in Colorado, the aircraft are not enforcing speed. They are being used to monitor traffic conditions.

In Cali, we have planes that monitor speed but they are entirely useless as the law requires an officer in a car to pace the offender as well.

@Maximillion Bucks Yeah, it's an expensive operation, that's why you rarely see departments in other states actually ever doing speed enforcement that way.

Using an aircraft is an *enormously* expensive way just to nab someone for speeding! The sign is probably bullshit i.e. it's just there as a deterrent.

Jacob Anderson u right

Most are like him. At least the small town officers.

Random Byzantine Guard Yeah those small town guys are really nice

Love it! I've had the same experience when being pulled over in a race-prepped street car. My track record is great in general, but stellar when in a car that somebody who doesn't know how to drive would never be driving. I believe police sense that kind of thing even if they are not a car guy. Many times they will do a walkaround on the car looking at the brakes/tires/safety equipment and such and get down to business after, usually without commentary about the car. Sometimes if they're a car guy they make a brief positive comment, but make sure not to open with some kind of compliment (staying professional). I was once pulled over by a nice and well-intentioned officer who was oncoming and saw that my seat belt was hanging up on the b-pillar because I wasn't wearing it. When I was pulled over and he walked up and noticed the harness belt I had on instead, he apologized, mentioned why he pulled me over, and said 'sorry to bother you and have a nice day'.

Not exactly. You need to have a specific dna.

Pretty much if you’re a famous race car driver it’s ok. Except that Ricky Bobby is a fictional character. He means in reality no one is allowed to break the speed limit. No one is above the law.

Yes that's true, they turn their lights off quick when when you put bus lengths on them in a matter of seconds.... ask me how I know.

My neonsrt-4 is a race car....it can go 180 therefore i can go 100in a 65 right? He said its okay 😎

Not sure how it is in America but in the EU all trucks have a tachograph that records how long and at what speeds the rig has been driven at, I'd of just done a print out gave it to the cop and tell him politely to fuck off.

Wet Lettuce When I first started and was a company driver we did have tachs and ya, that would have been great! When this incident happened it was later in my trucking career and by then I was an owner/operator, so no...I didn’t have anything in my truck that could verify I was telling the truth. I did try explaining to the cop that we were climbing a very long incline and I was hauling a quad-axle fully loaded (140,000lbs gross) so there was no way I could speed even if I wanted too...but of course that’s not really concrete proof and sure as hell he didn’t buy it. I even explained that as an o/o I ALWAYS maintained the speed limit (or even stayed slightly below it) because the increased fuel consumption from speeding hit me severely in the pocketbook but again, the cop didn’t care nor buy it. Nor did my perfect driver abstract (history) matter to him...which was something I was proud of and partly why this incident bothered me so much. So I asked my question here because I’ve always wondered since then if it is possible that a cop can mistake which vehicle he caught with radar and whether it’s possible that sometimes, however rarely, that a perfectly innocent driver could end up with a speeding ticket that should have been for someone else....or if I just had just run into a cop having a bad day that time or maybe even just an out and out asshole cop!

well like the video stated, the radar is there to confirm someone is speeding, its up to the officer to decide who was speeding and how fast they were going.

I'd say it's not the equipment, it's the operator. Top it off with the whole psychology of telling someone that "their wrong", now they're only going to push how they're the ones who's right not you.

I would've told the other truckers to speed to their hearts content.

chad haire lol if it was 65 ppl would be going like 80

@@xProJaffer most do anyway

@@xProJaffer No, if the speed limit is 65 people would not be doing 80... It just depends on traffic and the type of road. People tend to go what they find reasonable as they're driving, and a lot of times whats reasonable is significantly over the speed limit. @chad haire is right, some streets do have limits set too low, so low that they'll seem like speed traps. I have friends that live in this area in Ohio where there is a wide open 4 lane road where the speed limit is 25, no that isn't a typo, it is fucking TWENTY FIVE, no it isn't in a residential area either. They were telling stories of how this one pig stakes out on that road fucking everyone over with a ticket even if they were only doing 29!!! It got so bad to the point where people started avoiding that street altogether and dropped complaints down at their police station, they also petitioned to have that limit raised to at least 35 to be more reasonable but nope, its still 25, city is probably getting so much revenue from tickets by having it kept at 25. Ugh what happened to Montana''s days of no speed limit on their interstates.. such a shame the conspiracy of money takes away the good things in life.

problem is, most people think they are much better drivers than they actually are. Unless you can explain the relationship between cohesion and surface drag based on speed, you need to slow down.

@@elsarobson877 all speed limits in this country should be raised 20%

No, I was too busy speeding past those signs.

xXFaTaLBMHXx I saw a meme the other day that had a sign that said "Speed enforced by sniper".

I love the joke, but in reality, it is usually a plane that tracks vehicles' speed in certain zones designated by State Police/Highway Patrol. Usually for more wealthy states, they use helicopters (like CHP).

Jaden every state has choppers and planes

Thats literally what I said...

Yon Yonson you got off big time

Yon Yonson did 85 in a 55 on a single lane back road on a sunny day with no cars. Slowed down when CHP passed me. Never had a speeding violation, clean background. $320 ticket

Had a guy doing 120 in a 45 one time. Got pulled over by a county. Let off with a warning.

Glad im not the only one lol

Brian JOnker ny is no joke u can park your car waiting on your date n your already suspicious

A couple of years ago I was in a small town in Upstate New York (Amsterdam) as I'm from Pennsylvania and as I was approaching a traffic circle and didn't see the stop sign right away as I was paying attention to how the traffic circle was laid out and stomped on my brakes at the last second still stopping just before the stop line. A cop saw that and pulled me over because I stomped too hard on my brakes?!!!! Really? I still got the car stopped before it went into the intersection. Luckily he let me go as he saw I was from out of state, but still a stupid reason to pull someone over.

*cough* California *cough*

Travis Para congratulaions, you found it

Travis Para Well I'll start things out....you must be a total jerk. I'll bet your mommy wears army boots. You probably actually like cops. etc, etc. PS: the above is 100% BS.

Thats awsome

AWWWWWW YEAHHHHHH

r3conwoo I guess you haven't been paying attention to past videos....no problem. Maybe not this one, but generally yes, he does address the pinned issue.

Inb4 warrent issued, house raided, dog shot, then wages garnised for $40,000 ticket from taxes.

Sorry man... It's me, Joe. When you were gone I reassembled the car, had a crazy bender with a bunch of hookers and midgets, we ended up racing a Honda Odyssey, and things kind of got out of hand. You had your insurance in glove box so the midget driving pretended to be you... hence the ticket. If you find a box with a horse saddle in it, it's not mine.

@@iambeing4328 oof

Not to mention flipping their lights on momentarily to get through a light.

THIS IS THE QUESTION I ASKED MIKE POSTED AT THE TOP. MIKE, I WANT YOU TO ANSWER MY QUESTION HONESTLY WITHOUT LYING TO ME. LETS SAY YOUR MOTHER OR FATHER, YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR BROTHER, OR CLOSE RELATIVE WAS SPEEDING. AND YOU YOURSELF CAUGHT THEM ON RADAR WHERE THEY ARE BREAKING THE LAW AND LATER YOU REALIZED IT WAS THEM. WOULD YOU LIKE WITH OTHER PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS THAT YOU HAVE PULLED OVER AND GAVE TICKETS TO. WOULD YOU LET YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS GO, OR WOULD YOU TICKET THEM LIKE YOU HAVE DONE TO OTHERS. I'M A TREMEDOUS BELIEVER IN THE ALMIGHTY GOD ABOVE AND THIS QUESTION IS PROBABLY INSPIRED BY HIM UP ABOVE.

@@johnryan6658 Most of the time it is Code 2 which is where they do flip on their lights through intersections but no sirens.

lol who tf are u to say whats emergency and whats not

Zach E I’m sure they can see if you’re doing 5 over without radar at say 40mph, I don’t know what asshole cop would even pull you over for that let alone take it to court. But I’m sure it wouldn’t hold up anyway

who's getting pulled for 5 over? lol ive driven past cops for years at 9 over and have never been pulled for less than 12 (and even that was in a 35)

it is bs and they lose everytime ive been to court where they didnt have a print out just his radar gun certificate citing his experience and my lawyers have generally won everytime

@@paulschalkham4940 i have personally been pulled over for doing 36 in a 35. I have also personally gone 40 in a 25 and a cop speed up to my bumper, i had no insurance and bad tags, and not get flicked.

Yes. Even if some cop says that he visually saw the car going 50 over the speed limit, he should not be able to write a ticket for that. The cop can still pull you off tho.

state* which fixes your damn roads

@@rad636 my state doesn't fix the roads 😥

@@Christof708 are u a fellow Si owner too?

@@rad636 I have an 07

David Davis You are exactly right. Also, most cops are also not in place to protect the public. They are in place to protect the government. Think about every Unconstitutional law these guys blindly enforce. There are lots of them......

I got pulled over Christmas morning years ago going from my dad's to Mom's house , clocked me at 117mph on a 60mph road ...lmao he did however give me a nice present by lowering the speed right under 25 over so I wouldn't go to jail. Nice guy

How did you prove your speed at the time?

@@oswaldgobblepot who are you talking to?

Someone I know got a ticket for going 4 over in a 40, when he fought the ticket the cop showed up, the judge still dismissed the ticket. Whats cool about this story is that same cop had like 4-5 other people in that court room fighting tickets where they did no more than 5 over, the judge then scolded the officer and told him, "like really man? are you always gonna fill up my courtroom with people fighting these flimsy charges?"

I got pulled over in Oklahoma on I-40 for going 75 in a 70, even though I had CRUISE CONTROL set to 70. Idk if I couldve been a smart ass about that and gotten away with it, but he said he was just giving me a warning, so i didnt stir the pot. And then out of the blue he asked if he could search the car for drugs... tf. Idk where that came form but i let him cuz i know i didnt have anything on me. Lying ass sheriff that one.

Dustin Echos while people doing that if theyre not going faster than the cars on the right piss me off as well, they dont cause most of the crashes. I drive A LOT in a big city, and most of the crashes are caused by dick weeds lane hopping with no signals. One hops left to the middle lane as another driver hops from the left to the center. Neither knows what the hell the other is doing cause its just too much trouble to use that blinky thingy. The interstate is closed for two hours as they cut people out of their cars. I have seen this happen several times, and nearly happen almost daily. Rarely have i seen someone plow grandpa for dragging ass in the passing lane

Not true bro. That's a very negative assumption for a group of people you don't like. Speeding/running lights/tailgating/reckless driving cause most wrecks. If you are one of those, you are worse than the person driving slow in the fast lane.

Flannigan Bluffs You have no clue, firstly it's not the fast lane, it's the passing lane, secondly speeding isn't that big of a factor in causing accidents, the speed limits serve for decreasing the injury severity in case of an accident. Another factor is the speed differential between cars, if all cars travel at the same constant speed, keeping a safe distance from each other, the opportunities for accidents are almost nonexistent. But then comes the clueless lawmaker and decreases the speed limit, then the a holes like you drive at that speed limit on the "fast lane", the opportunities for an accident increase exponentially. There are numerous studies that state that drivers tend to drive at a speed they are comfortably at and ignore the speed limit, some drive slower than the limit, others faster, so the safest limit is the one 85% of the drivers drive below, this ensures a more uniform traffic flow. If a dumb politician lowers the limit too much, more drivers will lower their speed, others will maintain it, causing an increase in speed differential. A driver like you driving on the left at or below an artificially lowered speed limit is more dangerous than a driver "speeding" at 100 mph, you are disrupting the traffic flow, creating speed differences between cars forcing them to switch lanes. A low-mid end car from the last 20 years can travel safely at 85-95 mph on a highway, we are not in the 60's or 70's anymore, cars are orders of magnitude safer, or we are all driving at insane speeds at the time. Don't put speeding on the same level as running lights, the second is a lot more dangerous, also roundabouts should be favored over interceptions they are safer, more efficient, faster and decrease fuel consumption/emissions. But for some reason the US hates them. I'm talking about highways, on urban roads the situation is completely different, the speed limits are much more important, there should be more proactive measures for drivers to lower their speed instead of cops hiding in the bushes on the safest stretch of road, fishing for citations. One of the measures I particularly like is the shared road where pedestrians, cyclists and cars all share the same space, it can be counter intuitive but very effective. Another one is creating obstacles for cars with strange road features like double roundabouts, chicanes, different road pavements... All but suspension breaking bumps. For me the fundamental problems are the politicians that ignore data to appease to soccer moms, under funding the police so they have to rely on tickets, driving school being too easy and the mentality of drivers like you who only care about themselves and don't understand the bigger picture.

On the passing lane, you still have to abide by the speed limit even though its a passing lane. You have to have the privilege of others slowing down so you can pass them and get back into the normal lanes. If you speed in a passing lane, you can still receive tickets.

Cops will catch you no matter how fast you are going.

Tombs Clawtooth call your law makers lol

Go to Australia and feel the driving pain. In Victoria we have a 'grace' of 2 or 3km/h. So if I'm on a freeway with a limit of 100km/h but I'm doing 103km/h and I drive past one of the many hidden speed cameras, I'm in the crapper for a few hundred dollarydoos. It is feckin' ridiculous and nothing more than revenue raising. It has nothing to do with safety. Same in a regular 60 or 80 zone. And to make things worse, they keep dropping the limits everywhere. The powers that be say speed cameras save lives. I want to meet to person whose life was saved because of one.

Mike The Cop is right. Contact the jurisdiction for that road (city, county, township, state) and ask for a survey and re-evaluation of the limits. I've seen them raised in Michigan after a proper review has been completed and reviewed.

Tombs Clawtooth, I think you are mixing up law ENFORCEMENT, and lawMAKERS (legislators). Bucking the system isn't the best way to try to change it (usually). You get more bees with honey than vinegar.

I agree, but it needs to be that way until getting a drivers license actually requires skill.

dumbest comment ive read so far... you watch too much movies

@@rad636 ^many

Elliot Axelman You watch to much Reno 911.

Did you get it in writing?

@@kazoode I dont see any problems on the sentence.

Agreed. There are documented cases that have shown that smaller departments will use it to make their budgets. Some departments are so poor that they don't really have a budget so tickets and civil asset forfeiture are abused bring money in. One guy to used to be a cop has a video up showing how departments used to hire him to show them when he proved he was able to make a million dollars over the cost of his salary and he made pretty good money including benefits and equipment involved.

Well said

“A lot.” Two words. You learned something today. “Today was a good day.” ✌️

@@212Roger You wasted all that time to type that? That's your big finishing move? Someone had a big day, today!✌

BIG Joe Duncan I bet you’ll never misspell “ a lot” again. Ergo, you are a better person. All right? Another word you shouldn’t misspell. lol

Could be on the way to call that doesn't require lights and sirens.

@@JustinSTeam2 Yea most people are ignorant to these things... they get mad because the popo wrote them a ticket and make it their life long goal to dismiss any good the police do

Don't forget calls where they don't want to announce themselves like a domestic in progress.

😂😂

Surprise Pikachu

Funny. I've never been pulled over for 5MPH, nor know anyone who's had that happen.

@@zacharyjenkins9204 I have actually seen my father get a 1mph ticket in an absolute speed limit state.

@@blackflamefegari5756 That's cause that cop was an asshole. I've been on the streets for 6 years and usually don't even pull people over unless they're pushing any 10 over, unless you're in a residential or school area.

@@zacharyjenkins9204 so clearly that means it never happens. My bad.

Zachary Jenkins I’ve had a friend that was pulled over for 5 he was going 60 in a 55

Actually, a fair bit of that drop is cosine error as the oncoming vehicle is off-axis to the radar gun. Remember the part where Mike talked about being ed-jew-mick-kated about sines and cosines?

Part of the Doppler shift. Its normal.

I'm sure it's both. You can usually tell a speed cop is close from brake lights in front of you and/or you catch-up to the geniuses that passed you a few miles back.

Or when everyone is speeding except that unmarked white ford.

fobroth0236 Never hit your brakes if you see a cop while speeding. If they weren't paying attention to you, they are now.

I always had a saying that of all the people who have a driver's license 75% of them shouldnt

Very true! Excessive speed is dangerous in the hands of people that don’t know what they are doing.

couldn't agree with you more

Wow had no idea Germans do all that. I support that for here.

THANK YOU.

70mph in PA.

there are already people that drive slow as shit. if the speed limits were higher, those people wouldnt go any faster. you would just have a higher difference in speed between normal 5-10 over people like most of us and the slow dickheads.

@@kazoode Only on interstate 380 in the Poconos and route 80 going East to West across Pennsylvania to the best of my knowledge as it's still very limited geographic speed limit increase. The state picked those two areas as a test bed for the increase. Route 80 is full of truckers so it hampers your ability to maintain a consistent speed. Then again I usually drive 10 mph over the posted speed limit in any given speed zone anyhow as I usually try to do 80 on 80. I haven't been on 80 in awhile but surprisingly I hardly see any police on that highway at least the last couple of times I was there driving a good portion from Hazleton, PA into Ohio.

Michael B. if you are ever heading that way. You should try Route 15 between NY and Williamsport. Be careful around the the New York boarder, some caution near Mansfield, and extra careful around Williamsport. Especially around Williamsport.. Anyways 70 mph, almost no traffic because it is in the middle of no where, long scenic straights, a few entertaining turns to keep you awake. I recommend the detour over the turnpike anyway as long as it is not too far out of the way.

discoveryman59 cars have become faster, but our reflexes haven’t. The law caters to the lowest common denominator.

Zack Ablett no feeling about it...my producer decided to just make me look silly. Not hard I guess lol

Lamest pinned post ever

At least he fixed the title.

Zack, "i" feel like you forgot to edit parts of your comment"."

"laser.." (Dr. Evil Pose)

The FCC has to approve any device that transmits, and they have stated that they do not allow jammers to be approved and in my radar book they have a specific number we're suppose to call if we run across one so they can do their own investigation.

While I do not pretend to be an expert nor an attorney, I will say the way I understand the law, the FCC has authority over transmitted radio waves, not transmitted light. Thus RADAR Jammers are indeed illegal. However the FDA has authority over transmitted light and lasers (from what Ihave read its because the first commercial lasers were for medical use, thus FDA got the responsibility from congress to come up with rules) and they has not ruled LIDAR, or 'Laser' Jammers to be illegal (but some states have individually legislatively banned them). In most states currently ( Dec 2017), laser jammers are legal, however RADAR Jammers are illegal in all 50 states. Please let me know if I am misinformed.

As far as I know here in CA, Countermeasures are ILLEGAL, but receivers and all pre-cautions devices are legal. Get that instead, it can warn you when you are like 300 feet ahead of a radar or lazer transmitting device.

Just use the waze application. Better than any device out there. Tells you MILES ahead, in real time, if there is LEO in your path of travel, plenty of time to act accordingly. You cant outlaw the app or the phone.

Nate mockmore alot of older cars can't handle that speed and its really hard on the motor

+Dired Marmot What does that have to do with speeding laws? It's called a speed limit not a speed floor.

Agreed. We have 80 MPH limits in a few states out West, which is a nice, slow cruising speed. 100 is when the 'bored' factor starts to recede and driving becomes anything other than a chore.

Krouton if you’ve got a bunch of old cars going 65, and then these new cars going 100+ on the same road, it’s gonna cause problems

+Mr. Nooglet It doesn't cause any problems on the sections of Autobahn with no speed limits, where slow vehicles actually stay in the proper lane, allowing faster vehicles to pass. I know, it's difficult to imagine. We have Stay Right laws in much of the US, but the herpy derpy drivers here don't follow the rules.

And their fatality rate is like 1/4 of the US at 3 times the speed. They also have real (and expensive) driver training before they get their Fuehrerschein, and that includes driving fast on the Autobahn.

Residential and commercial areas are a thing ya know. Excessive speed is %100 more dangerous there.

Speed never killed anyone. It's suddenly becoming stationary, that gets ya...

Robert Spencer bullshit I got pulled over for 5 over 🤷‍♂️whatttttt?

@@f9nx405 5 over is illegal...

second place is the first loser xD

-123456bmx No, the majority of people know LEOs have bigger balls than they do; only sheep, potheads, criminals, thugs and terrorists "feel guilty in the presence of police officers".

you should always slow down when your going past a vehicle thats stopped where a vehicle wouldnt normally be stopped. On the vast majority of streets the speed limit accounts for common parking practices, but especially on highways and motorways you should still slow down because the speed limits in areas where people normally wouldnt be stopped don't allow for that hazard. The number of people who would still be alive today if drivers simply took their foot off the accelerator when there was an abnormal hazard in front of them is actually quite surprising. So many collisions with vehicles or people in road shoulders that simply wouldn't have happened if any single person going past had slowed down (forcing the people behind them to slow down) so they had more control over the situation.

-Cheesus Sliced Who is talking about a "vehicle thats stopped where a vehicle wouldnt normally be stopped", other than you?

I personally most often see people slowing down on motorways and similar high speed roads, rural roads, etc. Places where it's uncommon for vehicles to be parked, hence why the speed limit is higher because of better lines of sight and fewer hazards.

-Cheesus Sliced Again, who is talking about "Places where it's uncommon for vehicles to be parked..." other than you?

Oh ya! Watching a 17 car pileup in 3 lanes because every single one of the fuckers were so close you couldn't fit a ruler between their bumpers... Then you have to sit there for 2 hours for the police to arrive because of the now grid locked traffic... And then you have to give a statement that amounts to "ya, all those morons were tailgating so hard the one in the front couldn't see the one directly behind him...

I wished lane hogs and dangerously slow drivers got the same attention as speeders.

07wrxtr1 Why do you ride in the passing lane bitch?

Omfg yes tailgaters and people who don't use turn signals 1: I can't go any f'n faster than the vehicle in front of me. 2: are you so f'n lazy that you can't bring yourself to lift your arm to flip a switch. If I know your merging I'll slow down, if you don't signal I assume your drifting over, its gives other drivers the chance to react appropriately. *sigh* everyone is in a rush to risk life or limb of themselves and the ones around them to save MAYBE 5 minutes.

Bjorn Ironsides Ohio and ALL the snowbird States here in AZ! But yeah, why do Ohio drivers go particularly slow? wth?

@Ted Wood What does the IRS have to do with police revenue collection?

someones salty about getting a ticket

you forgot */end of the month qouta/ */just ruining lives for fun/ */by people who got bullied in school/ _revenue patrol_

@K W IRS deals with income not tickets. You're fake news.

@MrStig691 The only reason we have such a large fatality rate are the lax testing standards and HUGE amount of traffic compared to other countries. Make a better test and safer roads instead of putting out gotcha sentries. The only reason cops need to be patrolling highways is to look for criminals and people who need help, not to ding someone going 10 over in light traffic.

Statistics show throughout the US, the average IQ of regular traffic cops is pretty dam low. Like 90. Real IQ tests are kinda expensive. Mine was $20, go to your local college and take it. My IQ was 149 which honestly surprised me!

@@tarzaan2603 People who brag about their IQs are lying about them

Aashish Bharadwaj - Exactly, smart enough to know that no good comes from bragging about such things.

@@justins8802 Also he's probably lying. Just like Mr. "stable genius" Trump.

Which police force do you work for Local police here do not use radar.

@@johnkendall6962 I retired from Burlington NJ

@@johnkendall6962 I retired from a City in NJ.

What does the unit do when your target is in the Zero Doppler Notch. That is when the target is moving at 90 degrees to the beam and therefore there is no Doppler Effect. I know the term from military flying since we would try to get into the ZD Notch in order to evade SAMs, (Surface to Air Missiles), though clearly attemting to find the ZDN on an Interstate would be fraught with danger ;-) Also, one wonders if your units are as sensitive as some SAM radars that show helicopters both as advancing and retreating since it is actually reading the rotor blades so there is always one coming towards the unit and another going away.

r/thathappened

Radar detectors are a very good investment

everyone claims theyre innocent but cant prove it

great story grandpa. can i go home now?

@@jimmycorper Thank you for taking time away from Playstation in your parent's basement to read my comment.

@don cherry if me wanting to do the public honest makes me a piece of shit well be it. You don't know what I saw, but i will say the legal system needs serious overhauling. Don't misunderstand me, I think there is some very honest and fair people in the legal system.

@@stangtrax I believe you

Thanks for your honesty man. I also think that police officers shouldn't be Law Enforcement Officers but Officers Sworn to Protect and Serve. Enforcement of positive law (i.e. manmade arbitrary, relative, changeable, malleable, capricious, logically inconsistent, falsifiable law) is often at odds with service and protection of the citizens (who, ultimately pay the salaries of police officers!)

So what did you do to get fired?

Want to find a dirty cop? Call up the police station and ask to speak to an officer. It doesn't matter who answers.

Darren Bohan that’s his seat.

Mike, so the dog got in trouble so often that the cops actually dedicated a seat to it? I've seen recidivism, but that takes the cake. Does he get little doggy-sized paw cuffs?

Didn't pay puppy support

same.....

Except, you would be paying your lawyer at least 3 times the price of the ticket cost which is why you wont bother asking for their help in traffic ticket cases...

@@Fizano55 not necessarily.... had a cop lie at a traffic stop and say he saw me run a red light and reckless driving..... got a lawyer for $250 and all charges dropped with no court appearance required at all.... it was well worth it.... and besides, i'd rather pay him than the cop that lied....

@@mrmustangman You couldve just went to court yourself for that, they most likely wouldve just threw it out, if anything a small donation of like 50 dollars. Wouldve still saved you 200.

@@Fizano55 i don't think so.... courts always favor the cops..... but my lawyer knew the cop so maybe that helped also....

110 in a 65 I’m so fuckedd

Here in San Diego, the cops actually hold a drag racing event on the weekends at I think Qualcomm Stadium where anyone can come and race their car drag style against another person. I went to one with my dad and I never saw a Prius haul ass the way I did that day.

EpicConspiracy how?

I went to court, asked about calibration. The cop stammered, not knowing what that meant, after saying I was in a mustang going 70 (I was in an escort that shook at 40 and I was in 3rd gear topping a small rise) with a girl (I had a cooler, no passengers), the judge accepted the cop's word and fined me an extra $100 for court costs--told me I should have my speedometer calibrated regularly (it was a business-owned car). Guess my luck isn't as rosy as yours.

@@gamefreak12763 they can do it but they will never do it with a competent lawyer. If a cop doesnt show up, just say you want to dismiss the case. I had something similar: I was charged with a DUI and like 8 other charges. They threw the book at me. For months I prepared for trials to represent myself. I just wanted to get some experience and didnt care if I get the full penalty (like 60 days in jail). I had hired lawyers for my 1st DUI and the lawyer didnt do anything. I got same sentence as any other DUI without a lawyer. All he did was just hold my hand. So anyways, at this DUI #2 trial the judge and prosecutor were telling everyone who doesnt have a lawyer to get a public one right now. And they did. As everyones case was being called up, lots of officers were not present. The lawyers said "we would like to reschedule", and the judge did. When my case came up, I said " i would to dismiss my case because no witness from the state", and judge without question dismissed ALL charges My friend had a DUI as well later on. His officer didnt come. His paid lawyer said same thing and all charges were dismissed also police reports or written statements are not in any way sworn testimony if person is not there to verify. Its called hearsay. No courtroom would every accept a written statement from a person who is not there as a sworn testament. Judge would be disciplined. It might work in some very low traffic court but never against someone with a lawyer or someone just wearing a suit. Hearsay is not accepted because anyone can claim "I have a written statement from John Doe that he was speeding". When a prosecutor says that, he is taking any responsibility off his shoulders if John Doe is lying. Moreover, we cant prove if John Doe is lying. So if hearsay was accepted, every prosecutor would rather state "i have a written statement from X" and never actually call any witnesses forth. This is especially true since the cop was the sole witness. The whole case rested on his testimony. By not being in court, he cannot be questioned, it means you cannot have a trial because its basically you against a piece of paper something is not right about your case. Written testimony will never be accepted from a sole witness. What happened was that probably either judge or prosecutor manipulated you to plead guilty and you did

I only speed on the free way and I don't have time to use trun signals

FTP

I had an instance like this but the pigs were not even in their jurisdiction.

That is definitely a bad experience, but it would have been best had you slowed down to get behind the vehicle to your right. He then would not have had a reason to pull you over. That police department should have still paid for the cleaning and fixing the body damage.

Lesson learned. Never let them search just because they ask and you have "nothing to hide." What exactly do I get in return for letting them search my car rummaging through my personal belongings other than wasting my time and pissing me off? They wouldn't let me search through their property, so they don't need to search through mine.

@@fredflagstone181 Exactly! The 4th amendment works perfect when "you have nothing to hide".

Jeffrey Davis yep

Surplus Division I see where your coming from, but without tickets people are just going to continue to break traffic laws.

15 over in my state is reckless driving. TN.

Try Elizabethtown NC.

until they make you correct violations from a fire inspection.

raw data police salaries don’t come from ticket revenue they come from property taxes. Our extra costs beyond court expenses go to the library that tax payers use for free. So.....

I don't think that he was saying that COPS are getting paid, I think he's saying local government is getting paid. also stop going to public library's, they are communist book stores.

Sorry. I'm bitching about my area of Canada. The Canadian federal police are honorable and fair people. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) I respect them and their ethics and efforts 100% If they ticket me I more than deserve it. However Canadian cities employ questionable characters in uniforms to collect taxes. In my area alone the city police have had entire precincts disbanded for alcoholism resulting in a fatality. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/east-st-paul-police-residents-surprised-by-move-to-disband-force-1.725376 The same city police force gave the entire city an education in oral sex when they forgot their police helicopter loud hailer on. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-police-sorry-for-x-rated-chopper-talk-overheard-by-public-1.3123905 What is there to say about that? So when these cowboys set up sting operations in inactive construction zones so they can collect "speed fines double' well let's just say,,,,I'm less than fully respectful of their efforts.

We actually had a village down the road have their incorporation and ability to have a police department revoked by the county due to corrupt officials using speed traps to finance bonuses for themselves.

I like that kind of justice. Nothing demoralizes common people more than corrupt government officials, police, and regulators. We never used to have this problem in Canada 20 years ago. Now it's starting to seem like "want to fight me and our legal team in court'. Or just pay your fine,,, and walk away,,,, a "little" poorer.

Speeders are people who try to get more done in a day than God intended!

Here are some of the factors which make higher speed limits in other countries less of a problem. I've also driven on the German Autobahns, and in fact there *are* speed limits. The "no limit" sections are the exception, not the rule. We'll start with the biggest one: many other countries have a real driving test. I've passed my test in 3 countries, including the US. The one here was a joke. The whole concept of "you can make 'n' mistakes and still pass: in the other countries, you need to get 100% to pass. Their tests also include highway driving, reverse parallel parking, reversing around a bend, emergency stops, and so on. The written test included things like *distances* (how close to a curve, or hill crest, can you safely overtake; how near a corner or driveway can you park; etc). Oh, and if you fail, you go right back to the beginning of the learning sequence and have to wait months before you can retest. Then there are coutries with probationary periods after you pass your test. When I got my first license, I was limited to 50mph (regardless of the speed limit) for 12 months. *Any* infraction, even a parking ticket, and you were walking: back to the beginning with a learner's permit again then months before you could retest. Thankfully, insurance companies were not allowed to "take notice" of a failed probationary license when calculating premiums on your full license. Move onto the state of the vehicles. The US has a smog test: basically for pollution control. Other countries have a roadworthiness test. Everything (from seat belts to bulbs to brakes to oil leaks to body rust) has to be checked once per year. It can take over an hour to complete and includes testing all the brakes on a rolling road. IF your car has just passed the road test, you know it's safe. Random spot checks on vehicles. In other countries, the police can simply pull you over at random and do a roadside safety checks. So again, the average car is likely to be in much better condition. If you fail, you get a producer and have to fix it within a week. This is needed if you want to drive at high speed, I've seen cars in the US which pass the smog test, but are basically held together by the rust. what this adds up to is a higher skill level (on average) for drivers, who are driving (on average) much better maintained vehicles. And that's important, because it isn't speeding that's dangerous per se. It's not knowing how to drive safely at speed. Not instinctively understanding the different response of a car to the same control inputs (steering, braking, etc) at low and high speeds. And driving at a speed more than about 10mph in excess of those around you on a busy road.

@@stainlesssteellemming3885 almost 50% of the autobahn is still unrestricted. I'd hardly call that the exception. You must have driven in mostly built up areas.

@@johnryan6658 Possibly .. that and road works. I often fly into Frankfurt or Munich and then drive to "nearby" cities. I'll keep an eye out tomorrow when I'm flying into Hannover and heading East.