radar detector users encouraged to read this

Mecinoid

All I know is my friend was about to lose his license because in his business he has to get there quick because it's 100's of thousands of dollars to his customers if he doesn't. He has a valentine one and it has saved him many times.... But, he has been caught still the same by pacing and aircraft technique as well as Lidar. They wait in the bushes (I've seen it), Lidar you, drive out behind you and pull you over. Generally, this is a motorcycle officer however, I have seen a squad car do this too.

I use the 10% rule... If I see any car I do not go over 10% faster than the speed limit unless I'm willing to get that ticket.

I do have a radar detector and it does help me with the photo / speed cameras. My GPS tells me the speed limit pretty accurately for a given area. So I don't get a ticket because I do not know the speed limit.

The last ticket I got was in a merge situation 50 in 45... Radar. This was over 10 years ago. The officer was sitting in left turn lane oposite direction. I had to speed up a little because this guy was not letting me in (squeezing me) and I was going to be forced to stop if I didn't... So, I speed up just enough to merge. The officer didn't care. Simple Speed Trap. That was before I bought the radar detector. Know what I know now and having a radar detector I would have still done the same thing out of fear of being rear ended by the the guy I was merging in front of or the guy right behind me trying to get over too.

Thank God for traffic school on that one. 0 points.

How much do I drive? Over 30K miles per year. I still believe your ticket allotment should be on how many miles you drive a year. Because the more you drive the more chance you have of getting a ticket.

Hope this helps someone.