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[–] • 7 pts

I can't drive 55. I am the dude doing 90, all the time. Git in the right lane, fuckers.

[–] • 2 pts

Same, get out of the way retards.

On an unrelated note, I no longer have a license.

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I live in a part of Florida where most people drive fast, and there are never any cops with radar guns hiding behind a tree. Love it!

[–] • 6 pts

we drove 80 anyways, fukkem. Back then there were almost no false alarms for radar detectors, so you typically don't get tickets

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

This here ^ Like people going out west to Vegas from Texas on Interstate 10 drove 55 lolol.

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They definitely drove 55... On the speedo's that didn't have a 3'd digit for the 1 that was before the 55 :)

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

Radar detector. Without that, I would have lost my license.

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I've always been curious about these. In your most honest opinion, how often does a good radar detector actually detect a speed trap?

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Then, it was about 95% real, and 5% false alarms, and you could usually tell where the false alarm was coming from (like a grocery store door opener.)

15 years ago when I gave up, it was 90% false alarms, 5% WTF why did it go off, and 5% "laser detected, whoops, too fucking late."

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The problem is laser. Most of the time if you get a laser warning it is too late. Radar detector+waze is how you do it.

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My experience was back in the 1980s. No laser then.

I had a the best unit, an Escort brand. For speed traps where the cop sat with a live broadcasting unit, it detected every one of them and I never got a ticket from one.

Instant on was another thing. It worked by placing a dummy load on the transmitter until the cop saw a speeder and switched to transmit to clock someone.

Most cops were too trigger happy with instant on units. I usually detected them clocking cars ahead of me; so slowed to the speed limit and never got caught.

Some instant on units leaked some radar….you’d get warned with a weak signal that became very strong when the cop eyeballed you. I beat all these speed traps too.

Only twice in several years did I come eyeball to eyeball with an instant on and get nailed. The cops were so proud of catching someone who ran with a radar detector.

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Dogshit Jew York is STILL 55

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I've gotten 2 speeding tickets in 25 years. It isn't hard to not get a speeding ticket, it is more down to dumb luck. The PD can pull you over for just about any reason if they chose too.

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I remember being pulled over and given a warning, because our band's bus was GOING TOO SLOW. It could only do about 49 mph tops. Old school bus. We were holding up traffic.

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Your band had a bus? Pretty impressive, even if it was a piece of shit. That's next level for most bands who usually have to use a rental van.

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Oh yeah. We even upgraded to an ancient 1947 Greyhound bus (after a gas leak on the school bus nearly asphyxiated us all)! We loved picking up hitchhikers. Blew their minds.

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This is all a pretty cool tale. Must have been fun!

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By slowing down, where I live speeding doesn't get you anywhere faster

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Expand?

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

The same way you lived through 65-70 when we're on some advanced shit doing 150 like it's normal.

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I drive slow because I enjoy not spending extra money on gasoline. so you get where you're going 20 minutes before me. Big deal. You really think cars/trucks are made to go 80 mph for 5 hours straight?

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I'm the guy passing you, screaming and foaming at the mouth

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And you're also the guy that gets stuck at the traffic light and I pull up right behind you 15 seconds later, LOL

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No, I made the light, and am 5 miles down the road as you sit at the red light, seething hard.

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My car is 20 years old and does 80 at like 2.2k RPM in 6th, it'll be fine lol.

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500 miles at 55mph = a little over 9 hours. 500 miles 75 = 6.6 hours. 500 miles at 90mph = 5.5 hours.

One of my vehicles has almost 200k miles, most of it driving 80-90 mph where it averages 20 mpg. That's less than a 19% savings compared to driving 55. It's called 6th gear, and 4 hours of trip time is certainly worth the extra 23 dollars spent in fuel.

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