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you could try "sorry officer"Xiaxio said:
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No officer I was going 135 in a 50 not 125 get it right!
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oke:I was 19. Had passed my test just 3 months earlier.
Caught by a copper and his speed gun doing 57 in a 40 on a dual carriage way.
I was cut up by a biker in my 1.0L (997cc) Micra and was fuming.
The biker of course got away, me I got 3 points and a £60 fine.
I'll never forget the experience and have learnt speeding gets you nowhere .. except to the lights quicker!
Caught by a copper and his speed gun doing 57 in a 40 on a dual carriage way.
I was cut up by a biker in my 1.0L (997cc) Micra and was fuming.
The biker of course got away, me I got 3 points and a £60 fine.
I'll never forget the experience and have learnt speeding gets you nowhere .. except to the lights quicker!
BMWZ4MC said:I was followed for ages by a 335d late one night on the M4. I thought we were having fun as we were the only cars on the road...
When this unmarked police car eventually stopped me, the cop told me that we had averaged 108mph over the previous five milesHe told me that exceeding 96mph should be a mandatory court appearance where I would be charged with dangerous driving for exceeding 100mph (so a criminal offence not a driving offence leading to a criminal record as well as a ban and hefty fine) or I could take it on the chin and accept 3 points and a £60 fine. He also told me to stick to 85mph like everyone else!
I was very lucky....
Quadracer said:
I would have agreed with you except my cloak clearly had a hole in it (although I has been wearing it for 15 years by then).
That said, I passed a motorway on ramp in January in my 320d at slightly over the limit and saw a BMW saloon coming down the ramp. The driver was wearing a white shirt and it was far too late in the evening for the car to be your average rep mobile. I immediately slowed down and he crossed two lanes to come up behind me in the outside lane, confirming my suspicions. I obeyed the speed limit for a couple of miles and he kept station with me before eventually putting on the blue lights. He was particularly annoyed with me and TV traffic cop aggressive, pulling the car apart and looking underneath with a torch.... I suspect he was annoyed that I'd obviously spotted him before he spotted me and had time to slow down
Fastest I have driven was in France, racing another Porsche at 275 kmh (170mph?) on an open road (highway obviously) with no traffic.
My first ticket was at 165 kmh (100 mph?) and got a fine of 200 euro but that was it... Got caught in France at 155 kmh (100mph?) and had to pay 47 euro cash and drove of... Rules are clearly very different from country to country...
My first ticket was at 165 kmh (100 mph?) and got a fine of 200 euro but that was it... Got caught in France at 155 kmh (100mph?) and had to pay 47 euro cash and drove of... Rules are clearly very different from country to country...
Jembo said:Marius said:Machine monkey said:
Go abroad and do itFrench motorways are perfect for that.
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Secondly at that speed if caught your car will be impounded - don't pay the fine or collect it will be crushed.
Your choice:
Worse actually. They can not only impound your car but also keep it. Your only option then will be to buy it back off them at auction. It's happened to some participants on either the Cannonball Run or the Le Mans trip.
spr_bimmer
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chrisba said:spr_bimmer said:
50km/h!
I meant 50km/h over a posted speed limit.
Quadracer said:
That would only work with a guy in a car, the camera that got me was on a tripod on a bridge. these have mental range. i doubt any driver concentrating on the motorway would see the camera up there on its own before it was too late. and given the time to take a reading is 0.3s for your average laser camera i doubt you would slow enough. most certaily if you had a laser detector by the time its beeped the reading would have been taken
A simple detector is not enough, it needs to send back a meaningless signal that fools the camera into thinking it has received erroneous reflections. By the time the operator has refocused the device on your car, the detector has alerted you to slow down. That's the theory anyway. Of course, being caught with such a device will likely lead to a charge of perverting the course of justice rather than just a few points and a fine for speeding.
radar detectors aren't illegal everywhere though, AFAIK they're allowed here in British Columbia, my mate has one in his M3 and in his Jeep SRT8
I designed a 'smothering' device for X band microwave Doppler detectors some years ago (typical radar speed detector of the 1980s). At 10.587GHz the Doppler signal frequency is about 1kHz so a Gunn diode in a simple X band waveguide pulsing at 1kHz would, I think, appear to be a 30mph Doppler return from a car regardless of how fast it was travelling because it would swamp the feeble 'real' Doppler return from the reflection. I am not a microwave technologist, and actually not an electronics engineer either, but I've worked in these fields over the years and experts have advised me that the idea would work. However they no longer use X band much - if at all... 
Another idea is the 'Flashback' device that reacts to the flash of the photographic flashgun on a Gatso by sending back an instantaneous flash into the lens thereby grossly over exposing the photograph. It was designed for 'celebs' to wear on their heads while out and about and was meant to prevent paparazzi snatched pictures. They would look quite silly with a flashgun parked on their heads though... :rofl:
Neither device helps with laser speed detectors sadly. Only a moderate right foot can do this.
Another idea is the 'Flashback' device that reacts to the flash of the photographic flashgun on a Gatso by sending back an instantaneous flash into the lens thereby grossly over exposing the photograph. It was designed for 'celebs' to wear on their heads while out and about and was meant to prevent paparazzi snatched pictures. They would look quite silly with a flashgun parked on their heads though... :rofl:
Neither device helps with laser speed detectors sadly. Only a moderate right foot can do this.
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motco said:I designed a 'smothering' device for X band microwave Doppler detectors some years ago (typical radar speed detector of the 1980s). At 10.587GHz the Doppler signal frequency is about 1kHz so a Gunn diode in a simple X band waveguide pulsing at 1kHz would, I think, appear to be a 30mph Doppler return from a car regardless of how fast it was travelling because it would swamp the feeble 'real' Doppler return from the reflection. I am not a microwave technologist, and actually not an electronics engineer either, but I've worked in these fields over the years and experts have advised me that the idea would work. However they no longer use X band much - if at all...
wow....
but have you tried lifting your foot up a bit?
Devilsadvocate said:motco said:I designed a 'smothering' device for X band microwave Doppler detectors some years ago (typical radar speed detector of the 1980s). At 10.587GHz the Doppler signal frequency is about 1kHz so a Gunn diode in a simple X band waveguide pulsing at 1kHz would, I think, appear to be a 30mph Doppler return from a car regardless of how fast it was travelling because it would swamp the feeble 'real' Doppler return from the reflection. I am not a microwave technologist, and actually not an electronics engineer either, but I've worked in these fields over the years and experts have advised me that the idea would work. However they no longer use X band much - if at all...
wow....
but have you tried lifting your foot up a bit?
Yes, hence my last sentence. The devices would have been for sale, not for me to use. I'm a good boy, me! :evil:
I don't have any devices on my car (except on board cameras), I do actually have an invisibility cloak 
Drivers aren't the only ones that bend the rules a little. The Police do too, as does the man in the little van. Nothing like a good day in court if it even gets that far 8)
Drivers aren't the only ones that bend the rules a little. The Police do too, as does the man in the little van. Nothing like a good day in court if it even gets that far 8)
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mate idont know how long you have been driving or even how old you are, i presume less than 25 because no more mature drivers i know arer thatignorant, oke: :thumbsdown: far be it from me to sling mud as i know we all prerss the gas too much , But ! 135 in a 50, I would sayu you deserve a ban and a kin big fine, 135 on a dual carriageway with a barrier between the oncoming traffic, ok, you would still have a ban, here but if it was empty then you could artgue to yourself that its only tou at risk but a 5o limit in the uk is a rural B road and a lot of these now have become 40 , these limits are set for the conditions , you are reckless to the point of stupidity
oke: :thumbsdown: far be it from me to sling mud as i know we all prerss the gas too much , But ! 135 in a 50, I would sayu you deserve a ban and a kin big fine, 135 on a dual carriageway with a barrier between the oncoming traffic, ok, you would still have a ban, here but if it was empty then you could artgue to yourself that its only tou at risk but a 5o limit in the uk is a rural B road and a lot of these now have become 40 , these limits are set for the conditions , you are reckless to the point of stupiditymad4slalom said:mate idont know how long you have been driving or even how old you are, i presume less than 25 because no more mature drivers i know arer thatignorant,
Don't hold back!!!! :rofl:
Only caught once a few years back. Doing 88mph in my first Z4 on the M23 by a camera van parked on a flyover. Took the speed awareness course instead of the points but have to say, even though I've sped many times before and after it's almost always under or upto a ton and only ever on motorways or large roads where I can see plenty.
Know thats still not going to be good enough for many on here ("speeding is speeding, still dangerous" etc) but my point is really around definitely NOT speeding in 30 or 40 mph zones where there would be people, parked cars etc.
Know thats still not going to be good enough for many on here ("speeding is speeding, still dangerous" etc) but my point is really around definitely NOT speeding in 30 or 40 mph zones where there would be people, parked cars etc.