I HATE!!!!! When people do that!!! Especially a truck (Pretty popular here in Houston) or if they have time and room to stop. I take it as a VERY selfish move and it has happened to me plenty of times. Luckily i have had enough time to stop and to warn the cars behind me.This is one of the features I REALLY like about the tech safety system. I've been in this situation too many times. My wife once had a truck that was in front of her dart into the next lane only to reveal a stalled vehicle in the lane. She had no chance to brake in time and only managed to avoid it through a miraculous avoidance maneuver.
I'm looking forward to having help staying whole out on the road.
Now, that would be a riot. As I've said in a past post, I was almost killed because of three radar detectors, and those with radar detectors are stating that they believe it's all right to have tools that are used to break the law. I wonder how they would vote on a jury if a defendant was charged with just possessing burglar tools.And yes, it uses radar - I wonder if we'll be setting off other cars' radar detectors?
Wow! Didn't realize ol' Virginia was the only state where they are illegal.LEGAL in 49 of 50 states.
Funny you mention this. I was on a trip last month, and there were several cars in a caravan (not intentionally, just that no one wanted to be that 1st car). We were all hanging back about 6 MPH over the speed limit waiting for someone to make the move.I don't need to be the fastest car at the front of the pack when I'm driving so that's worked well for me and I'll stick with it
[/QUOTE]Why don't you just arrest every woman in the U.S. also, they all have the 'tools' to commit prostitution....
There's a classic speed trap on 55 or 57 north, crossing the Mississippi bridge from Missouri to Illinois. Missouri's side has a 75mph speed limit. Guess what the Illinois side has? You guessed it, 65. So everyone with a cruise control set is automatically 10mph over the second they hit the IL side of the bridge.
It's like a 24/7 barbeque on the IL side there is so much pork. Highway Patrol has tailgating parties on the side of the road. There are crossover bridges about 5-10 miles in (uphill) where they camp on those bridges and wait for traffic under them, like a reverse troll.
Tell me again why radar detectors are bad when clearly, some junctions are intentionally geared to make lawbreakers out of people who, 5 minutes ago, were law abiding citizens, all to line the pockets of a given state or municipality. Don't get me started about 1 cop towns that have dominion over a 2 mile stretch of interstate that passes through their little village. I think there's an infamous one in Ohio or PA that people have mentioned before.
Should everyone have one? Might level the playing field a little and shift enforcement where it needs to be, drunk and distracted drivers. Yes, I will concede that some people drive way too fast for their own (and other's) safety and they should be isolated and put in check. But that's usually easy; they have a propellor logo on the hood.
Yep, thanks for the correction, that's 57N and it does drop from 70 to 65. However, from what I do (and what I observe) is most people get comfortable at 5 over, so they're really driving 75 out of MO and hit that 65 on the other side of the bridge.I-57 runs from east of Sikeston Mo into Ill, but that is only a 5mph drop there, 70 to 65.
Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that, as she is no longer alive(though not job related), and it's not something I relish talking about. Sorry.You say your wife was a cop? Ask her if they ever put a dummy car with a radar gun out somewhere to slow people down. I've seen a few small towns do that when the (usually one) cop is off duty. Works pretty well for out-of-towners, locals figure it out usually.