California's Social Lockdown Results In A Doubling Of Triple Digit Speeding Tickets

California's 700 electronic highway signs will soon issue a simple warning: "If you must travel, do not speed"—advice that has been utterly ignored since the state first issued stay-at-home orders in March. With the Golden State's spacious highways being free of traffic for the first time in years, drivers have taken to the streets with a lead foot and a need for speed. Now police are claiming drivers aren't just going places in a hurry—they're actually doing so in a reckless manner—and they have the data to back it up.
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PUGPROUD - 4/23/2020 11:04:07 AM

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A modern version of the old hot rod mantra..."How fast do you want to go? How much money do you have?"

ctsang - 4/23/2020 11:26:46 AM

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somebody got to pay the cops' salaries

MDarringer - 4/23/2020 12:05:58 PM

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As I had coffee this morning, CHP interceptors were poised on the divided highway in front of my property. They caught 3 speed demons in an hour and we're talking SPEEDING.

mre30 - 4/23/2020 7:18:26 PM

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If you speed, you might want to consider the new Valentine 1, Generation 2...

https://store.valentine1.com/store/item.asp?i=20020

It just works.

MDarringer - 4/25/2020 5:45:39 PM

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The value of a detector isn't to save your butt directly but to alert you to the use of detection ahead of you that allows you to move accordingly.

Section_31_JTK - 4/24/2020 1:13:36 AM

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V1 won't beat the CHP because the doughnut eaters in Calif have laser guns. By the time your unit beeps, you've already been nailed.

MDarringer - 4/25/2020 3:16:58 PM

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True

dumpsty - 4/25/2020 2:11:51 PM

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state troopers & local (radar) can clock you from over a mile away. all they need is a glimpse of your front facia.