DOH! speeding ticket, question about radar detection

[vwrocco87@hotmail.com (Brad Sayer)]

I have been caught 2 times in the last 5 years by an oncoming cop.  My guess 
is that the radar system is tied to the speedometer so it knows how fast it 
is moving and can calibrate based on that.

Brad
87 16V


>From: "ATS - Patrick Bureau" <pbureau@attbi.com>
>To: "_Scirocco Mailing List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: DOH! speeding ticket, question about radar detection
>Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:55:26 -0600
>
>
>DOH! enjoying a newly layed out stretchs of asphalt on a back road of
>suunnyvale, and cruising at 50 (zoned at 35) I turn the last curve
>and cross path with a sheriff driving opposite direction... he lights up 
>and
>pulls me over... ticket issued for 50mph in a 35 zone.
>I deserve it but I have a technical question.
>
>since when a moving vehicule mounted with a radar detector system can clock
>an incoming car on the road? I was under the impression they had to be
>immobile to ensure that the reading is correctly read on a speeding
>vehicule.
>
>damn now I will have to take defensive driving course to get out of this
>one.. hhehehehe
>
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