On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Tom Tweed wrote:
> Last week, JOE IV made too much sense when he wrote :
>
> [snipped]
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> >
> > As far as I know,only "permanantly installed and operational" (your
> >interpretation may vary) RADAR detectors are illegal in CT. If you
> >have one either concealed or "temporarily placed on the dashbaord"
> >you might not be ticketed. Connecticut has no detector detectors
> >-again as far as I know- like Virginia has, so if a police man dosen't
> >see your "operational("But officer, it was just sitting here, unplugged,
> >on my way from New York to Massachusetts") RADAR detection device",
> >you won't get caught.
> > Be warned however, that the first thirty miles going north from New
> >York
> >on I-95 are efectively "RADAR jammed", by the D.O.T.'s highway
> >traffic flow maintainance RADAR monitoring system. In this area,the
> >State Police use LASER tracking to ascertain the speed of passing mot-
> >orists. Good luck, it's a jungle out there, and just don't speed..;^)
> ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^
> > JOE IV
> > TR 250
> > WALLINGFORD, CT. USA
> >
>
>
> ..and I must second that, although we all know it's not the speed that
> kills. However, anyone must admit that in a crash, speed is most def-
> initely a factor, and high speed is an aggravating factor, to put it
> in legalese. Think about it...you see that you are about to be hit by
> a baseball, you know that you just don't have time to out-maneuver it;
> would you prefer what launched that ball at you to be an under-hand lob,
> or a Nolan Ryan fastball ??? The mass is the same, but the speed makes
> all the difference, and that alone, ISTM, is the logic behind the speed
> laws. Now that any half-wit can buy a RADAR detector and make believe
> that he can drive just like the Dukes of Hazzard on your crowded free-
> way, I see a conflict...the half-wit thinks he has just bought a lic-
> ense to fly, and the police get an attitude about all drivers with
> RADAR detectors, since there are plenty of half-wits out there, driving
> like they're Special Cases, immune to traffic laws and common sense.
> Well, guess what, we're ALL special cases, in that argument, or
> else, none of us is...and should just read our speedometers and the
> road signs (and the traffic, and the weather, etc,etc,) and not push
> our luck or our half-second margin for error.
> Soap box mode off, thank you,
> Tom Tweed
> SW Ohio
>
>
Why, if speed laws are so well-thought out, is the speed unlimited on the
Autobahnen, where the country is so much smaller than ours?
Jim Ruwaldt
'72 TR6 CC79338U
Bloomington, IN
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