(OT) Traffic Speed Detecting Signs

What do you consider to be "very rude gestures"?

I haven't used a detector for around twenty years. When I did have one I was driving 30 miles to work. One morning I was late and was doing 125 mph. The detector beeped once, I knew the cop was a long way off. I kept speeding. As I got closer it would beep faster. When I got to the state line I slowed down to 55, I could tell the cop was a few miles away. I merged into traffic. When I saw the cop he was coming fast and he was looking down the road past the group of cars I was in, like he expected the speeder to be coming.

Sorry Charlie.

I spotted a cop recently, flying towards me in an unmarked BMW. But the way he kept speeding up and slowing down, I knew he was speed matching the cars. I was doing about 90 as he approached me, so I dropped a gear and went to 70 quite rapidly without using the brake lights. The cop appeared alongside me and made very rude gestures.

We got one of them things. Ours works on Ka band radar. They are great for checking your calibration on your speed-o-meter. I have called the town and asked where they have parked the thing to check on several occasions. It also light up my radar detector, which gives me the hint to check my cruise control.

My guess is the the display is set by a BCD (binary coded decimal) counter and that it would just roll over at 100 to 0.

Dudes! This is not a stupid question. This is a fun question. When did you guys lose your sense of curiosity?

My guess is that the display is driven by a BCD (binary coded decimal) counter and that it just rolls over to 00.

One time when I left Fort Smith, AR, for Oklahoma City, I got caught caught up in some fast moving traffic. We were all speeding. It took an hour and a half to get from Fort Smith to OK city.

Love it.

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He clenched his fist in a way you do when you lose a game. Then I'm pretty sure he made a wanker motion.

Only if you have a car with gps and computers.

It is a good sign that your felt you could approach him. It is a sign of a healthy police department. Community policing is the way it is suppose to work.

:-)

Why not fire an RPG at one and see what it says? (Too bad Mythbusters is no more.)

Two and a 'half' digits would be good enough for displaying speeds up to 199 MPH. It cuts down on the circuitry needed in the display.

I would think of it as a two and a half digit display with the 'half' being left to the reader. It could well be that a log could be kept which logged speeds well above 100 MPH rather than a rolling over, leaving only the display limited to two digits.

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Motorcycling with some friends one day, they decided to see how fast they could go. I let them, I knew they would eventually get stopped at the lights in the next town and I would catch up to them. I got stopped by a cop who insisted that I was speeding trying to catch up to them.

Sometimes, you just can't win.

I can win...

I've been stopped for speeding 3 times.

The first time I was doing 70 in 55 in a rented car. I told the officer that I didn't know how to use the cruise control. He gave me a ticket for a noisy muffler. (Brand new car, less than 3000 miles on it).

The next time I was doing 70 in a 55. The cop told me to keep it under 65 and gave me a ticket for an obstructed license plate. (I had clear plexiglass over the plate)

The last time I was doing 75 in a 55, after midnight, on a highway that gets very little traffic even during the day. There wasn't another car in sight, other than the cop, of course. After briefly looking at my documents, the cop said "I'm sure you know that we give drivers a little leeway on this road. Try to keep it under 70. Have a nice night and get home safe."

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I feel your pain :'(

I would expect some kind of overflow indication, perhaps a flashing display. Maybe "00" which doesn't happen normally.

I used to have digital thermometer that had 2.5 digits, which was enough since the thermometer couldn't handle temperatures above 140 degrees.

True enough. My point was that the counter wouldn't have to roll over just because of the limits of the display.

You can display Pi on a calculator and only get so many decimal places, yet you can then subtract 3.14159 from it and retrieve six more decimal places in many cases. The limits of the display does not necessarily limit the underlying calculation (or, in this case, the count).

Only by looking at the circuit or code used could I determine if the thing actually counts modulo 100 (0 through 99 and 'rolling over' dropping anything over 100) or just not displaying the most significant digit.