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From: mikec@petsd.UUCP (Mike Condict)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: radar det effectiveness...
Message-ID: <642@petsd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 18:37:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 18:37:10 1985
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Keywords: radar detector effectiveness

I've discovered experimentally that the range of speeds for which a
super-het detector is effective (in typical conditions) is something
like 110 to 115 mph in a 55 mph zone.  Any faster and you don't have
time to get it down to quasi-legal (~70 mph) from the time you take the
first radar hit till he can see you.  Of course, if he is around a curve
and you have a good detector you have the advantage that he can't visually
spot which car is going faster than the others till you round the curve.
On the other hand, if you are the only car in sight this works against
you because you have less response time from the detector when his gun is
not in direct line of sight.  Same with coming over the crest of a hill.
The bottom line is that you should respond much more quickly to alarms
when travelling alone on the road, as opposed to when there are lots of
cars around you (in which case the guy with the most expensive looking
sports car will take the heat :-)).

-- Poster requested anonymity to protect his insurance rates.

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