I'll start by agreeing with Roger. Keep the speed down. It just doesn't pay to go fast these days. RADAR stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging. It uses radio waves - specifically, microwave radar. The earliest microwave ovens were Amana Radar Ranges. Radar works by transmitting a directional beam of radio waves which bounce off objects and are then picked up by the radar unit. It compares the time between the transmission and reception to determine the object's distance. Speed detection radar goes a step further using Doppler Shift to determine speed. A radar detector simply picks up the radar waves and sounds a warning. It is not a cop detector. Different types of police enforcement use different types of radar units which in turn use different frequencies of radio waves - K band and X band for example. Laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is similar but uses light instead of radio waves. The problem for the speeder is that the cone of light is much smaller than the radio wave pattern of a radar unit, a laser can be turned on instantly and as a result it is virtually impossible to detect until it is too late. The only exception I can see to this is if there is a cop clocking numerous drivers on a busy road sending the laser light bouncing all over the place.
Most people do not realize hat a radar detector more than a few years old is obsolete because technology is constantly changing. Cops are now going back to more low tech approaches such as painted lines on the freeway with a small plane in the air and one or more cops on the ground writing tickets to cars spotted speeding. Cameras are being used more and more and no radar detector can possibly catch an instant on laser gun so you are screwed right there anyway.
The best thing to do is either watch the truckers if they are all speeding its a fair guess there are no cops around and you can bump up the speed and roll. If all of a sudden trucks are all going the speed limit that is when you shut down your speed and cruise. The other thing to watch for is someone speeding past you in a performance car. or better yet two performance cars just hang back a mile or so and roll behind them for awhile because they may get picked up first.
You never know now because weather its a helicopter who got my friend at night in the desert on a fast bike ( the cop put the midnight sun spotlight right on my friends back at 130. he said he had to stop or get fried by the light it was so hot it put heat into his black leather) cops are a lot better at hiding then they ever have been so if you don't want a ticket the best thing is not to speed.
a million. The Laser speed detection gadget is living house workplace authorized, would be calibrated (each and each year) and additionally checked till now and after use. 2. in the journey that your speed is in far extra than the shrink for that highway (or maybe the form of motor vehicle you're using) various factors are taken under consideration. a) What threshold will the police tolerate? b) Is the line classed as one services to injuries, undesirable using etc? c) highway and climatic circumstances. 3. as an occasion while you're over the shrink, say doing 40 in a 30, you may desire to be stopped, given a value tag. while you're given an endorsable fastened penalty no NIP is needed, although while you're reported for summons to the community magistrates courtroom, a verbal NIP will get carry of, recorded the two interior the officers be conscious e book (you would be asked to sign) alongside with and questions and solutions. If he police are ending up silent assessments, ie, checking the fee of autos and noting people who're over the shrink, sending the registered keeper a written NIP and asking the call of the driving force on the time of the alleged offence. A rule of thumb is that throughout maximum circumstances 10% +3mph of the shrink and you will desire to be ok. some officers provide you extra, including in a 30 shrink utilising the ten% + 3 provide you 36 mph and around it off to 40 then you definately would get accomplished, and quite there is not any argument. Simples. answer, do no longer speed, abide via the regulations of the land.
The device your friend has is designed to receive signals from a certain devices carried by police to detect speed, or speed measurement.
Here are a few ways they do this.
One is by RF or Radio Frequency using the K or KA band of the spectrum. (you can google K or KA Bands for a better explanation).
The other is by use of a narrow beam of light (Laser) shot towards your friend's car. the time the light takes to return to their gun determines his speed.
His unit will see-detect those 2 signals (be it light or RF) and sound an alert as the source gets closer to him (or he gets closer to that source).
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I'll start by agreeing with Roger. Keep the speed down. It just doesn't pay to go fast these days. RADAR stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging. It uses radio waves - specifically, microwave radar. The earliest microwave ovens were Amana Radar Ranges. Radar works by transmitting a directional beam of radio waves which bounce off objects and are then picked up by the radar unit. It compares the time between the transmission and reception to determine the object's distance. Speed detection radar goes a step further using Doppler Shift to determine speed. A radar detector simply picks up the radar waves and sounds a warning. It is not a cop detector. Different types of police enforcement use different types of radar units which in turn use different frequencies of radio waves - K band and X band for example. Laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is similar but uses light instead of radio waves. The problem for the speeder is that the cone of light is much smaller than the radio wave pattern of a radar unit, a laser can be turned on instantly and as a result it is virtually impossible to detect until it is too late. The only exception I can see to this is if there is a cop clocking numerous drivers on a busy road sending the laser light bouncing all over the place.
Most people do not realize hat a radar detector more than a few years old is obsolete because technology is constantly changing. Cops are now going back to more low tech approaches such as painted lines on the freeway with a small plane in the air and one or more cops on the ground writing tickets to cars spotted speeding. Cameras are being used more and more and no radar detector can possibly catch an instant on laser gun so you are screwed right there anyway.
The best thing to do is either watch the truckers if they are all speeding its a fair guess there are no cops around and you can bump up the speed and roll. If all of a sudden trucks are all going the speed limit that is when you shut down your speed and cruise. The other thing to watch for is someone speeding past you in a performance car. or better yet two performance cars just hang back a mile or so and roll behind them for awhile because they may get picked up first.
You never know now because weather its a helicopter who got my friend at night in the desert on a fast bike ( the cop put the midnight sun spotlight right on my friends back at 130. he said he had to stop or get fried by the light it was so hot it put heat into his black leather) cops are a lot better at hiding then they ever have been so if you don't want a ticket the best thing is not to speed.
a million. The Laser speed detection gadget is living house workplace authorized, would be calibrated (each and each year) and additionally checked till now and after use. 2. in the journey that your speed is in far extra than the shrink for that highway (or maybe the form of motor vehicle you're using) various factors are taken under consideration. a) What threshold will the police tolerate? b) Is the line classed as one services to injuries, undesirable using etc? c) highway and climatic circumstances. 3. as an occasion while you're over the shrink, say doing 40 in a 30, you may desire to be stopped, given a value tag. while you're given an endorsable fastened penalty no NIP is needed, although while you're reported for summons to the community magistrates courtroom, a verbal NIP will get carry of, recorded the two interior the officers be conscious e book (you would be asked to sign) alongside with and questions and solutions. If he police are ending up silent assessments, ie, checking the fee of autos and noting people who're over the shrink, sending the registered keeper a written NIP and asking the call of the driving force on the time of the alleged offence. A rule of thumb is that throughout maximum circumstances 10% +3mph of the shrink and you will desire to be ok. some officers provide you extra, including in a 30 shrink utilising the ten% + 3 provide you 36 mph and around it off to 40 then you definately would get accomplished, and quite there is not any argument. Simples. answer, do no longer speed, abide via the regulations of the land.
The device your friend has is designed to receive signals from a certain devices carried by police to detect speed, or speed measurement.
Here are a few ways they do this.
One is by RF or Radio Frequency using the K or KA band of the spectrum. (you can google K or KA Bands for a better explanation).
The other is by use of a narrow beam of light (Laser) shot towards your friend's car. the time the light takes to return to their gun determines his speed.
His unit will see-detect those 2 signals (be it light or RF) and sound an alert as the source gets closer to him (or he gets closer to that source).
It's that easy