"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 10/31/2014 10:10 PM, KC wrote:
On 10/31/2014 9:34 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 10/31/2014 9:04 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:24:27 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:
SC only has one plate, mounted on the rear. I don't run a front
"vanity" plate for that very reason.
The cops use your headlights then as their secondary target.
Many years ago Car and Driver did a radar test and they found the
radiator was the biggest target, followed by the headlights.
The corvette was the lowest reflectivity car they tested (fiberglass
body, retracting headlights and a tilted radiator)
These days, if I wanted a laser resistant car, I would get one with
retracting headlights and paint the nose with bed liner material
It would buy you several hundred feet anyway.
They also sell a laser jammer. It basically floods the road in front
of you with IR noise. Again, you get a few hundred feet.
I just drive 65. Max.
I will go 5-7 over.. It's an unwritten but well known fact that the CT
State Police will not tag you for less than ten over on the
interstates... unless there are other circumstances of course.. But in
general you will not get a ticket for 74 in a 65....
I understand. I just don't feel the need to test the limits.
I did a lot of driving a few years ago back and forth from Florida. Made
about 11 or 12 trips, about 1500 miles each way over a period of three
years. Many of the trips included hauling a trailer or a boat.
It took 2 and a half days, regardless of how fast I drove.
Did one trip non-stop other than a 20 minute nap and fuel stops. I'll never do that again.
The problem in California is the towing and truck laws. Both asinine and
dangerous. You can tow at 55 mph maximum! 70 mph speed limit on I-5, 2
lanes each way and the trucks and trailers are limited to 55. Most get
away with 63, but the traffic is trying to do 80. So you have a truck
doing 63 trying to pass a truck doing 60, or a Walmart truck doing 55.
They do not speed. Lose job if they do. So you have traffic jams and
speed differential accidents. Most states around here either have the same
speed limit for trucks or towing as the regular traffic. Or at the most a
5 mph differential. Cops love the revenue of towing tickets. I got a
ticket towing my race car for 5 over at 1:30am in Madera county years ago.
At that time the towing speed limit was 50, and a week later limit went to
55. And I was only doing the 5 over.