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[AndreG]

Makes sense. I'm at work and I didn't get to watch a lot of your videos yet, but a consistent trend was not using nearly enough of the road at track out. If you want you MPH's to be a little higher at the end of the straights, that would be the first thing I would improve on.

I specifically picked the video with my personal best for that track, as that probably meant I hit the highest speed I've ever attained there.

Of course I've had to point Miatas by. And I've had a few of them give me a point-by. Even at my first track day ever (a story in itself) I could stay ahead of this one Miata (whose driver had autocross experience at least comparable to mine).


Norm

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[Blake]

... but a consistent trend was not using nearly enough of the road at track out. If you want you MPH's to be a little higher at the end of the straights, that would be the first thing I would improve on.

That's what I was thinking. Getting on the throttle a bit sooner on corner exit will help that.

 

[Norm Peterson]

I'm actually interested in reading a discussion about police scanners, radar/laser detectors, etc. Does anyone have anything to offer on the subject?

I'm surprised that nobody has found a link to some reasonably current magazine comparison test of these things.


Andre - I may be sending you a PM.


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[Norm Peterson]

Driving 100+ on public roads is generally a bad idea and should be done on closed race tracks; however, I don't see how speeding on an empty desert road that is straight and clear for miles being an issue as the only one's at risk are the speeders themselves...

And their passengers.

A driver error of about half the width of a tire tread led to this ↓↓↓ at 75 mph. Who wants to exit their road ass-backward at, say, 125? Anybody care to be a passenger?

Norm

 

[KP6Five]

Taking trips... Nothing better than an updated V1 with the junk settings enabled and Waze app for Android. I love knowing where the detection is coming and how many radars it's picking up. Versus it just going off and your head on a swivel looking for it. Then those constant signals because they are coming up from behind you. V1 tells you were to look. I don't drive like I'm in the Cannonball run but I like to go 10 over and not get a ticket. Just my two cents... carry on men!

 

[DonLafond]

Taking trips... Nothing better than an updated V1 with the junk settings enabled and Waze app for Android. I love knowing where the detection is coming and how many radars it's picking up. Versus it just going off and your head on a swivel looking for it. Then those constant signals because they are coming up from behind you. V1 tells you were to look. I don't drive like I'm in the Cannonball run but I like to go 10 over and not get a ticket. Just my two cents... carry on men!

+1

Just bought my V1 and it seems to be very accurate. I've been using Waze for pretty much since it came out (royalty), but Waze doesn't help for new traps. No tickets yet and I feel more confident it will stay that way. I definitely get the SAVVY adapter for the V1. I'm also planning on getting the remote concealed display unit and sitting it on my center display panel allowing me to turn off the lights on the actual detector.

At least some radar detectors can be detected electronically. If the man has a radar detector detector and it goes off, plan on sitting there until he finds it.

Norm

I think radar detectors are only illegal in VA.

Just don't speed and you won't get tickets.

No detector is going to save you when you are going that fast, nor should you be on a public road. Rent track time and hurt yourself or wreck your own car, that's fine, but don't risk other's lives on the road who are innocent because you think you're a race car driver now with a Mustang.

By the time you even tap the brake to slow they have your speed measured with new technology and you won't get out of the ticket. This isn't 10 years ago with radar guns, many use lasers now which are instant.

I don't ever do crazy speed, just 10 or so over the speed limit on highways and only when everyone else is traveling 10 over. My problem is I now drive a Red Mustang. In general, I suspect a copy would pull me over instead of the minivan. Radar, what they still mainly use in Florida, is very imprecise. The copy just plucks fish from a barrel on the highway. (Same in CA when I lived there. Almost nobody drives exactly the speed limit. If you are driving 65 in a 65 in the left lane in FL you will probably get run over.

In Europe, some places have 'check points' on the highway with cameras that scan all license plates, if you pass the next point (a couple of kms down the road) 'too soon', you must have been speeding and you get a ticket in the mail with a nice picture of your car, courtesy the department of justice. They won't fine you for 1kph over, but if your speed has been like more than 10 kph over the speed limit on average over the stretch, you will get one.

No radar detector/scrambler helps you against those systems. I hear they are interested in these systems in the US as well.

This is actually seems like a great way to issue tickets. Definitely stopping for a drink somewhere in between those two checkpoints :cheers:

 

[mikeyjobu]

All these detectors and apps help people stay on the right side of the law more of the time -- like I've said before -- live it up, but don't be an idiot. Nobody buys a Mustang not to enjoy it's performance potential sometimes -- and all of them have the potential to be far on the wrong side of the law.

 

[Blk2015GT]

I don't ever do crazy speed, just 10 or so over the speed limit on highways and only when everyone else is traveling 10 over. My problem is I now drive a Red Mustang. In general, I suspect a copy would pull me over instead of the minivan. Radar, what they still mainly use in Florida, is very imprecise. The copy just plucks fish from a barrel on the highway. (Same in CA when I lived there. Almost nobody drives exactly the speed limit. If you are driving 65 in a 65 in the left lane in FL you will probably get run over.

Well again as I said, I live in FL too I get how it works. Ok 5-10 even 15 over. I don't go 65 in a 65 no. 75 yes. 80 is pushing it to pass someone- that's what I consider the "ticket range" where a cop will stop you.

But there's no excuse or reason to be SLOWING to 100mph when you're clocked/caught though; meaning more like 110-120 or more. That's not keeping with the flow of traffic even but reckless. I sure as hell wouldn't want my new $40k GT anywhere near morons driving like that. The GT's stopping distance from 30mph is 27 ft, 60mph is 108 ft. Double the speed stopping distance went up 4 times. Imagine 120mph now!

In relation, its like going 60mph through a 30mph neighborhood (without the cross-traffic and people in the street). There are still others driving like normal people around you. The highway speeds only increase that risk and inability to stop in an emergency.

I couldn't care less if everyone has a radar detector and discusses them to death, but encouraging someone to continue driving 110-120 or that you can slow down that quickly to an acceptable speed to not get a ticket in the mere second or 2 from the beep to clocked, the premise of this thread, I do not support.

 

[Norm Peterson]

Most people have no idea what truly hard braking from beyond 100 mph is like. I'm guessing they'd take well over 400 feet to get slowed from 125 to 70 (and spend at least 3 seconds on the brakes getting it done, plus whatever reaction time to the alarm).

Radar detectors work best when there is some traffic ahead and your detector sniffs out the signal beamed at them. Out there all by yourself, you don't have that luxury. Many years ago, I had a detector, but about the time the national 55 mph speed limit went away and other bands were used I stopped using it and never bothered to replace it. Got one ticket since (78 or 79 in a 65 in NC, maybe 15 years ago), which was my own damn fault for being the fastest in a given group of cars plus having out of state plates.

Like Blk, I've also found that a steady 5 to 8 over on a highway rarely attracts any interest. Maybe even 10 - 12 over, if that's what traffic in general is doing.


Norm

 

[FelixGER]

Two lanes, no speed limit.

https://cdn.rideapart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/autobahn-unlimited-speed-sign.jpg

There must be millions killed! Oh wait...

Traffic-related death rate per 100 000 citizen:

US: 11.4
Germany: 4.7 :shrug:

 

[Blk2015GT]

Two lanes, no speed limit.

https://cdn.rideapart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/autobahn-unlimited-speed-sign.jpg

There must be millions killed! Oh wait...

Traffic-related death rate per 100 000 citizen:

US: 11.4
Germany: 4.7 :shrug:

So because 1 road there is no speed limit that equates to whole country comparisons? Perhaps culture (and drugs and drinking while driving) is part of it too? These numbers mean nothing with zero context.

 

[FelixGER]

Hmm? That´s just a random picture of a German Autobahn I found on google. It generally looks like that over here. Yes, there are 3 and 4 lane roads, too, but 2 lane, no speed limit can be often seen.

I don´t mean to toll, but this whole "100 mph, are you mad?!?!?" discussion is just highly laughable in a german POV. 160+ mph, ok, that´s really a bit fast when a lot of other cars are around, but 100? LOL

When I was driving to Italy last year in one of these http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2009/10/12/481144.1-lg.jpg
I was constantly doing 90-100 mph (5th gear at rev limiter)

 

[Husker]

 

[veeATE]

Escort SmartRadar + Escort Live App + waze = perfect combination

 

[Degen]

Think I'm going to go V1 also because of the atachment that let's you set a speed setting so its not going off at low speeds and also let's it run without a cable.

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