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From: little_re@lrc.uucp
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: POLICE hand-held RADAR units
Message-ID: <1090.27b96a06@lrc.uucp>
Date: 13 Feb 91 16:32:05 GMT
References: <1991Feb12.035201.16098@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1810@ole.UUCP>
Organization: Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC
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In article <1810@ole.UUCP>, ssave@ole.UUCP (Shailendra Save) writes:
> From article <1991Feb12.035201.16098@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, by fjs@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Fernando J. Selman):
>   If it is your first ticket, you can get it out of your moving
>   violation record by attending a 3 hour class about safe driving. 

    Your idea about the 3 hour class is great, if the county offers it!
I got pulled here (Hickory, NC) in Catawba County for 47 in a 35 and was able
to take a "Defensive Driving" class that erased the ticket.  However, I got 
pulled this summer in a county about 3 hours from here (don't remember which),
that didn't offer the course.  The result was court, for 68 in a 55.
    Here's an idea : The lawer that I had this summer had me get the 
speedometer on my car checked.  It was off by only 1 MPH, but that was enough
for the charge to be changed to Driving With Faulty Equipment.  That didn't
add any points to my license or raise my insurance.  When I got pulled for
this, it was on VASCAR not radar.
    A friend of mine here said that radar has an error of +- 5 MPH.  I don't
know if that's true (and don't believe it personally), but it might help.

			Good Luck!!

			Rich Little
			Lenoir-Rhyne College
			Hickory, NC
			UUCP:lrc!little_re@mcnc.org