What not to do when you just got your driver's license

[Will M]

Yeah maybe if you were a blong, young girl with a nice smile It so unfair how females are often treated better than males when stopped by police :/

You're welcome to get your tits out next time and try it....

Not sure how far it'll get you though. you'll probably end up with a bigger fine haha

[JSchraub]

LOL the good old radar detectors !! Me and my friends also found a solution for traffic lights. You gotta spray your licnese plates with colorless paint but a lot of paint. In a sunny day, the sun will reflect from it not allowing the camera on traffic lights to take a clear pic of your plates when you run a yellow light. Works only with white plates though

Heh yeah here in Austin those cameras at the lights are starting to pop up everywhere.. I usually don't run red lights but some lights are just rediculous and I am not about to wait 5 minutes while no one is going...

That's what I like about Texas' straight flat highways! Your radar detector can catch a cop from a long way out. I've been saved by mine dozens of times. No speeding tickets in 11 years.

Yes sir. This $300 device surely paid for itself. I've gotten one ticket with it.. Those pesky state troopers who turn their radar on and off... I get used to it then I drive a car without a radar dector and I speed and then realize "Ohh my savior is not here".. heh

[Airbus_A320]

The other thing you have to worry about is lidar, it's also known as lazer. That's the new thing and when popo departments replace their radars they might get lidar. The was to deal with lidar is having a jamming system.

I was going to get a radar detector until I learned they were pretty much useless against lidar systems, even the ones that say they detect it.

[DAL767-400ER]

Pfft, at least you guys don't have to deal with speed traps disguised as trash cans :rolleyes: . Say what you want, but such an effort in hiding a speed trap doesn't appear like "doing it for the safety of the kids", but just "getting the state more money asap".

[Peter Lund]

A few years ago when I was in the army I had just picked up my sister and was on our way home. Suddenly this red flash came from a parked van.

A few weeks later I received a letter from the police with a ticket on 500 DKR. But (the best part) since I was doing military service and just finished my trainee period, I had a low income. So I managed getting the ticket down to 300 DKR instead. My "sin" was, that I was doing abound 56-60 km/h in a 50 km/h zone.

And good part was my parent called me a speed devil, but within a year they both got a ticket of 1000 DKR. for speeding, so whos the speed devils now

[pkonowrocki]

Pfft, at least you guys don't have to deal with speed traps disguised as trash cans :rolleyes: . Say what you want, but such an effort in hiding a speed trap doesn't appear like "doing it for the safety of the kids", but just "getting the state more money asap".

There are speed trap detectors as well.
The worst thing for me are those "spy" cars - cop cars looking just like a casual family ride. Now whenever I see a dark Impala or Crown Vistoria I always slow down just incase. Unfortunately they got new cars lately and I still don't know what they look like :/

[Bok269]

There are speed trap detectors as well.
The worst thing for me are those "spy" cars - cop cars looking just like a casual family ride. Now whenever I see a dark Impala or Crown Vistoria I always slow down just incase. Unfortunately they got new cars lately and I still don't know what they look like :/

Dodge Charger is a possibility.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Dodge...QQcmdZViewItem

[pkonowrocki]

Yeap they got the chargers around 3 months ago. I've also heard that they might be using the 300C...:/
There's an 'official version":

And a spy car looking like a casual ride...:

[JSchraub]

Pfft, at least you guys don't have to deal with speed traps disguised as trash cans :rolleyes: . Say what you want, but such an effort in hiding a speed trap doesn't appear like "doing it for the safety of the kids", but just "getting the state more money asap".

exactly. and those pigs in the casual rides piss me off too.. Especially when it is just a normal person driving a black car like that with tinted windows.. Really scares the crap out of me and slam on the brakes or quit doing whatever I am doing that is wrong and the car pulls up and it is some 98 year old grandmother

[Airbus_A320]

Yeah, I always try to be on the look out for Crown Vics. Also, I've seen an unmarked explorer once and CT has Camaros too. The Crown Vics do have something on them that says police interceptor, even the unmarked ones. So if you pull up behind one and see that, be careful.

Another thing that's annoying is the new LED lights, as you can't see the marked cars from as far.

[Bok269]

Yeah, I always try to be on the look out for Crown Vics. Also, I've seen an unmarked explorer once and CT has Camaros too. The Crown Vics do have something on them that says police interceptor, even the unmarked ones. So if you pull up behind one and see that, be careful.

Another thing that's annoying is the new LED lights, as you can't see the marked cars from as far.

Yeah, for some stupid reason Ford marks them as that. But its virtually unreadable until you start tailgaiting.

[pkonowrocki]

Yeah, for some stupid reason Ford marks them as that. But its virtually unreadable until you start tailgaiting.

Ahh..the joy of tailgating people
Reminds me how once I was tailgating a guy going 50 on a residential where limit is 40. He stops on the stop sign, leaves the car and yells to me that the limit is 40 plus some other swore words. LOL I was lucky he didnt have a baseball at or something :P

[AASuper80Fan]

For a younger member who is going to get his license soon, thanks for this threads, gives me the idea of what NOT to do.

[JordanD]

Ugh I hate when people pull right up on my ass at a stop light. It got really annoying when I was learning to drive stick shift in our truck. I hadn't gotten used to how to get it started without rolling backwards on hills. So I just always gunned it when somebody was behind me. One of these days I'm gonna have had enough and just let the damn thing roll backwards. That's what they'd get for pulling up too close.

[Airbus_A320]

Yeah, for some stupid reason Ford marks them as that. But its virtually unreadable until you start tailgaiting.

Well, if you see the placard you don't have to tailgate to read the words exactly, you just know what it is because none of the others have that. Another giveaway is large antennas not present on normal cars, and you can see the lights in the back too.

I don't tailgate or do anything unsafe like cut people off, talk on the phone, etc. I do go fast however if it's clear, but if there's traffic I wouldn't get someones ass, I just pass them when I can if I want to go faster. What I hate is people who put on their signal believe just doing so makes it ok for them to cut you off to get into your lane even if you are about to pass them, or they don't have much space between you and their car.