kensteele

V1 comes thru again. On my way to get gasoline, I see the unmarked unit going the other way...well I know he's going to setup down the road speedtrap, I'll be looking for him somewhere along the way back.

Sure enough I'm approaching a nice bend and there's a clump of trees in the center median, enough to conceal the entire patrol vehicle sideways; perpendicular to the freeway. I actually got the car ahead of me, his beam for about two seconds, I reduced my speed from 70 to 60 in a 65mph zone. I think V1 works best at dusk. This was an easy alert and again if I had been speeding it would have been easy to slow down and beat the laser...again.

It was still pretty light out around 8:30 but the sun was gone. And the cop behind the trees was dark and with his passenger window down, with his second shot this time for me, I could see the orange beam coming from his interior ever so slightly. To me it looked like someone drawing on a cigarette. By now I was down to 55 and I guess he couldn't believe his reading because he kept it on me for at least 5-8 seconds and I could see that orange pinpoint for at least 5 seconds.

The entire time my V1 is screaming "laser, laser, laser..." V1 is sweet! I will buy the new V1 the day I see it and sell my old V1 on ebay...no question.

JZ

You must live in a laser/radar testing facility for all of the posts you make about beating the cops!

lou_RENAMED

when is the new V1 coming out I might buy it if it is worth the money

I currently have the Bel980 and works perfect but i hate the way it looks on my windshield. I want something neat that works every time.

kensteele

Remember my post about traffic control being non-existant in Kansas? I would go for a solid month with not even a K-band brap and I speed practically everywhere. But for the last year or two, they have stepped it up here; probably because of all the street racing. Just now while I am typing I can hear two distinct engines scream by my place...racing. It goes on most nights till midnite.

Most cops cars have handheld radar, it's rare to see a patrol car with a fixed unit in the windshield. This is in Overland Park. Now a lot of them have laser and I think they are really getting comfortable using it. And if you see an unmarked car, you know they are unmarked for traffic mostly.

There still is virtually no moving or rolling radar by the city departments in Kansas. I have never been clocked by a city cop unless the unit was stationary...except a couple of time and I still didn't get ticketed while speeding. The State will use moving radar but when OPP is moving, radar is OFF. Either they haven't been certified training in that mode or it's not lawful for non-State department to use on traffic. Those who live in places where the cop drives slow in the #1 lane up and down the freeway and clocks oncoming traffic know how difficult this is to beat.

But you are right there's beginning to be a turnaround here, I get numerous clockings now. V1 is starting to work overtime. But I know most of the hiding spots too.

soopa

i got a ticket tonight for imprudent speed for peeling out on the corener of my street while there were cops at the funeral home nearby for a funeral

darrinb

thank sucks soopa

hmmm, maybe i should buy a v1

beerknurd

I got a 52 in a 35 this weekend. this freaking blows. I asked to see the 52 on the gun, but he said he already cleared it.

Sdog2012

i saw a green laser come out of one of the laser guns one time, today there was an undercover cop that would walk across the street and see if drivers would yeild to him, if not hed stop them and write tickets, fuckers!

suXor

The light you saw must have been a light on the device or otherwise, and not the laser beam pulse itself. LIDAR send a few pulses (in nanoseconds) and then stops. In addition, LIDAR emits a EM wavelength >900nm. We can only see between 400-700nm.

Perhaps he was puffing

Starter

That's one you shouldn't be unhappy about. How many times have you been walking somewhere and been dusted off by a bozo with no regard for pedestrians?

They don't have a steel shell around them for protection, not to mention the fact that (assuming proper use of crosswalks and lights) they have the right of way.

gto2050

Ken, you're so skinny that you could hide between the laser beams anyway. Geesh, if you stood sideways and stuck out your tongue, you'd look like a zipper!

suXor

That's not right

gto2050

Have you eve met kensteele?

SiGGy

Thats interesting since it's suppose to be a unltraviolet laser!

I just upgraded my V1 to the newest unit for $100. Got rid of the old clunker. LOL, now they'll release the new model

Glad you didn't get pinched Ken.

suXor

Nope, just commenting on the comment made

typeR

in the words of Dr. Evil "LASER BEAM"

gto2050

He's a skinny dude.

suXor

But can he hear me now?......Good!

pianoman41

Uh, you mean infrared laser, right? I thought you did.

kensteele

Yep, I only saw what was in the car which is the laser light. There was no visual beam all the way from the police car to my car like at a light show or concert. Sorta like one of those laser pointers, you can see it when it comes on but you can't follow the beam to the target.

But I pretty much knew it was laser (and not some "ambiant" internal light) because the instant I saw it come on my V1 alerted.

I don't know if V1 is coming out with a new detector anytime soon. So far V1 works great with laser, I guess I'm surprised because my old Escort Passport was hit or miss 50/50.

suXor

I think my anti-speeding device is actually the best out there.... I zip tied the throttle to not go too far