Whew!

[LouG]

Came home yesterday from a few days away. I had the closest call ticket wise, I saw a slow truck entering a left hand sweeper ahead, caught up to him at the exit and gave Bonnie some beans to pass. I was doing about X25kmh ( 25 over the limit) and saw a parked cop that the truck had been hiding. He hit me with his Stalker radar at the same time and I thought I was done.
Except he didn't stop me. I was watching for him to pull out and hit the flashers and ......nothing. Maybe he was eating lunch and didn't want it to get cold, or something.
It's still possible he'll mail a ticket, but that's extremely unusual.
BTW. Even better on gas this time. If this keeps up I'll have the tank overflowing every 200kms.

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[Junkyard Dog]

Came home yesterday from a few days away. I had the closest call ticket wise, I saw a slow truck entering a left hand sweeper ahead, caught up to him at the exit and gave Bonnie some beans to pass. I was doing about X25kmh ( 25 over the limit) and saw a parked cop that the truck had been hiding. He hit me with his Stalker radar at the same time and I thought I was done.
Except he didn't stop me. I was watching for him to pull out and hit the flashers and ......nothing. Maybe he was eating lunch and didn't want it to get cold, or something.
It's still possible he'll mail a ticket, but that's extremely unusual.
BTW. Even better on gas this time. If this keeps up I'll have the tank overflowing every 200kms.

25k over is only 15.5mph over. Here, where I live, that is the very bottom of what would even get them interested. I would not think it unusual that they ignore me unless they were working an area where they had complaints and the chief positioned them there for the day to write tickets to mollify whoever called the PD to complain about speeders.

 

[canzaecho]

*knocks on wood*
I've been accidentally spectated during some light pulls on street. Good acceleration (60-70% throttle) up to speed limit (or 5 over) and nothing. My local PD seems be pretty chill (I think). My local town PD does have a Carbonized Grey S650 in their fleet with matte(?) markings, one day heading home I saw it parked on the side of the road near my neighborhood and they gave it a good rev as I was pulling up.

That said, I keep it respectful on the street. I see their grace on these matter as a sort of mutual agreement to keep it civil and respectful. They could have got me for hard accel., no front plates or just "checking".

 

[Zig]

Came home yesterday from a few days away. I had the closest call ticket wise, I saw a slow truck entering a left hand sweeper ahead, caught up to him at the exit and gave Bonnie some beans to pass. I was doing about X25kmh ( 25 over the limit) and saw a parked cop that the truck had been hiding. He hit me with his Stalker radar at the same time and I thought I was done.
Except he didn't stop me. I was watching for him to pull out and hit the flashers and ......nothing. Maybe he was eating lunch and didn't want it to get cold, or something.
It's still possible he'll mail a ticket, but that's extremely unusual.
BTW. Even better on gas this time. If this keeps up I'll have the tank overflowing every 200kms.

He made you clean your seat, his job was done - no need to add insult to injury

 

[LouG]

He made you clean your seat, his job was done - no need to add insult to injury

Still have to patch the donut shaped hole in it.

 

[LouG]

OK, I think I know what happened. I was telling the guys on V1 Discord about it.
It seems that, while Stalker Radar can differentiate between largest target and fastest target, it's not always reliable.
Sometimes the larger target will shadow a smaller, faster target. There's a big difference in radar reflectivity between a mid sized truck and a small, low car like a Mustang. Add the blue colour and lots of black plastic on the front and it wouldn't have shown my speed, just the trucks.
I bet the cop was fuming

 

[Katastrophe]

What was the posted limit, though? Huge difference being 25 over in a 50-60 zone vs a 90-100.

 

[LouG]

25k over is only 15.5mph over. Here, where I live, that is the very bottom of what would even get them interested. I would not think it unusual that they ignore me unless they were working an area where they had complaints and the chief positioned them there for the day to write tickets to mollify whoever called the PD to complain about speeders.

Not here Mr Dog. Normally 10kmh tolerance, although they have had periods of 1 kmh over.
Can't give away revenue.
OZ is the same, if not tougher.

 

[LouG]

What was the posted limit, though? Huge difference being 25 over in a 50-60 zone vs a 90-100.

100 kmh limit.

 

[Katastrophe]

100 kmh limit.

Gotcha, so at least in that regard, the delta wasn't too far over.

If you said something like a 50-60 zone, I'd say you would've been EXTREMELY lucky then, Haha.

EDIT: Like you, 10kph over is more or less the norm for us too...certain highways can be more and certain inner city/residential streets can be less.

 

[Alan Applegate]

I'm of the opinion that no two jurisdictions use the same over-speed-limit enforcement technique. Where I live, the police department is short by about 10 officers. Thus to get a speeding ticket is rare unless you're also acting like an idiot. As for me, I just use the 80% rule, but there are drivers who I just can't tolerate! Those are the ones who take a half mile or more to get from zero to 35 as if they're saving fuel. They aren't, but they sure are exasperatingly dangerous when other drivers are doing their best to get around them!

 

[Junkyard Dog]

I am in Georgia, as my information on the left there indicates.

State law forbids regular city and county officers from enforcing speed limits using speed detection devices until 10 mph over (16 kph) the posted speed limit (with a few exceptions). State troopers are exempt. So if the speed limit is 55 mph, they are not even pulling you over until 65 mph. Habit and tradition, however, pretty much dictate that staying within 15 mph of the speed limit will keep you very safe from even being stopped. School zones excepted.

So if the speed limit on the interstate is 70 mph, you are very, very safe from speeding tickets driving 80 mph in Georgia. I typically set my cruise control higher than that. While I do slow down if an officer is on the interstate and driving slower (I have had officers pull me over years back for "passing" them), and I will slow a little if I see them on the side of the road, I typically drive more than 10 over but less than 15, and I have not had a speeding ticket in more than a decade. When I did get speeding tickets back then, they were for more than 15 over. I have been here since the late 80s, and I was a former law enforcement officer myself.

Cruise control has been my biggest friend, since living two years in Germany gave me a different (higher) internal sense of what a "safe" speed is compared to other drivers. Cruise control keeps my speed down.

 

[Trella]

Came home yesterday from a few days away. I had the closest call ticket wise, I saw a slow truck entering a left hand sweeper ahead, caught up to him at the exit and gave Bonnie some beans to pass. I was doing about X25kmh ( 25 over the limit) and saw a parked cop that the truck had been hiding. He hit me with his Stalker radar at the same time and I thought I was done.
Except he didn't stop me. I was watching for him to pull out and hit the flashers and ......nothing. Maybe he was eating lunch and didn't want it to get cold, or something.
It's still possible he'll mail a ticket, but that's extremely unusual.
BTW. Even better on gas this time. If this keeps up I'll have the tank overflowing every 200kms.

What's a Left Hand Sweeper, please?

 

[smurfslayer]

What's a Left Hand Sweeper, please?

A gentle curve to the left.

 

[Junkyard Dog]

What's a Left Hand Sweeper, please?

An excuse to switch to track mode and push the car to 1.17 G of lateral acceleration, while screaming, "Woo hoo!"

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