Modding My V1 Radar Detector
Just some random thoughts:
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integration with Laser Jamming technology
V1 needs to get involved with that...otherwise where I live the V1 is about as usefull as a pair of dice dangling from the Rearview mirror (90% penetration of Laser Speed Acquisition Devices :( in my county) |
Bummer. Our local constabulary don't use laser. In fact, I have not heard of laser being used in this state.
Is it true that someone using a laser gun (lidar?) has to be in a stationary position (as compared to a moving police car) and has to hold the gun perfectly steady, e.g., on a tripod? |
Originally Posted by Hard 8
Bummer. Our local constabulary don't use laser. In fact, I have not heard of laser being used in this state.
Is it true that someone using a laser gun (lidar?) has to be in a stationary position (as compared to a moving police car) and has to hold the gun perfectly steady, e.g., on a tripod? Yes with laser it must be stationary as is the case with Radar...if a cop is using a laser OR radar gun while moving you can have it thrown out in court older laser units did need a tripod but current ones take a reading so quickly they have become handheld really people have no idea how unsafe they are with laser around...my year old Escort 8500 has been collecting dust over the past 6 months because the risk of laser is too great...eventually I'll get a laser jammer but I've been to busy and would rather have a Hymee Exhaust anyway :D |
Our radar guns are seldom stationary; the roving CHP, even on motorcycles, use them all the time while driving or riding. They have a secondary radar gun that measures the speed of their own vehicle, I've heard, and the cars even have a third gun that faces behind the vehicle. A computer reconciles all the different signals to figure out the offender's speed. Never heard of one being thrown out of court, though. Nice if that were true here.
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hmm never heard of multiple guns...
yes they can use it while roaming but that evidence wont hold up in court...the must stop the vehicle and get an accurate reading based off protocol really you can get any speeding ticket thrown out in court 2-5% of people talk to the DA/contest their ticket of those people only a few percent actually take it to court...lets get one of the cops on the forum to chime in |
I'm a lawyer myself, and I've had several tickets thrown out. Working on one right now, in fact. Funny thing is, I haven't got a single ticket in the several years since I bought the V1 (knock on wood--I think I'm just more cautious now), and not one ticket in the 8. But a few weeks back my wife got one in my 8, and it's funny because she almost never speeds. Anyway, I'm fighting it on a few grounds, the most interesting of which is that our city did not follow California law in enacting the local speed limits; for the last 30 years they have been void. The local TV news disclosed this fact a few months ago, and the city council passed the requisite ordinance, but my wife got her ticket before the new law took effect. I am having fun with this one; she got nailed in a classic revenue-rich blvd. where they catch all the harried soccer moms, and she wasn't going that fast at all; same as everyone else. They just love to get em there; it's like shooting fish in a barrel. I will fight this one all the way up if I have to, just for fun.
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Originally Posted by Hard 8
I'm a lawyer myself, and I've had several tickets thrown out. Working on one right now, in fact. Funny thing is, I haven't got a single ticket in the several years since I bought the V1 (knock on wood--I think I'm just more cautious now), and not one ticket in the 8. But a few weeks back my wife got one in my 8, and it's funny because she almost never speeds. Anyway, I'm fighting it on a few grounds, the most interesting of which is that our city did not follow California law in enacting the local speed limits; for the last 30 years they have been void. The local TV news disclosed this fact a few months ago, and the city council passed the requisite ordinance, but my wife got her ticket before the new law took effect. I am having fun with this one; she got nailed in a classic revenue-rich blvd. where they catch all the harried soccer moms, and she wasn't going that fast at all; same as everyone else. They just love to get em there; it's like shooting fish in a barrel. I will fight this one all the way up if I have to, just for fun.
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Yeah. I'll post the results when I get them. But first, I'm going to drag this thing out as long as possible. Here, we can do a trial by written declaration, and we don't even need to enter a plea and opt for that approach until June.
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If I were you I would reprogram it to get back the laser detection. I don't have much of it around here, but I recently went through NY State and it saved my ass twice in 5 hours! One of them was a parked, black trooper car on the median right at dusk. The detector went off and I'm now trained to instantly hit the brakes when I hear the laser sound. I didn't see the guy for another 5 seconds because he was hid so well!
I do think that I'm going to program it to kill the x band though :) |
I have never seen laser around here, and I have no plans to drive it out of state. But I'd be curious to learn whether anyone knows of any laser being used in CA.
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