LIDAR speeding tickets at toll booths
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LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging...it is a laser form of radar...you can aim it and detect speed of a object accuratly up to 1000ft or more. It shoots a laser beam instead of the radio waves. When you see officers using a handheld unit they aim it like a gun held right on their face. It is not like the radar units mounted on their dash.
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OK, looks like I gots some 'splainin' to do.
The tollbooths I'm talking about are at the end of a bridge on I-80 over the Carquinez Straits. The speed limit is 65mph, until you get to the front end of the bridge, where the speed limit becomes 55mph, and there are 4 lanes on the bridge. At the other end of the bridge, the 4 lanes become about 15 lanes or so. On the right are the cash-paying lanes, where people have to stop and pay the ransomeer- I mean toll taker. On the left are a few lanes that people with FasTrak transponders can proceed through without stopping ( their transponder gets read electonically and your credit card gets billed automatically ). The key here is you don't need to stop, but there is a speed limit sign on the toll huts ( that are still there but not used ) that says the speed limit is 25mph, but nobody who is cruising at 55mph slows down to 25 mph for the few feet before the speed limit becomes 65mph again. If you fly through the toll readers, I think some people think that the machine won't read the transponders ( but their picture gets taken and they get charged anyways )
A few people have scared the crap outta me buzzing me on my bike going about 80mph through there.
I posted this ( trying to help ) for two reasons-
1. If someone were to go through at 35mph ( which would seem perfectly safe after slowing down from 65mph ), they'll get nailed. On a bike it's pretty safe, but in a car it's close to be edge on both sides.
2. For the people who feel like they can fly through there at 70mph because there are no cops around, and you've just crossed a county line so no cop is going to follow you into another county, I would hope that hearing that CHP is cherry-picking $peeders and writing high-dollar ticket$ would maybe get them to slow down.
But if I offended some people by trying to help, I can't BEGIN to tell you how sorry I am. So feel free to either get a high dollar speeding ticket or get hit by someone who is going 50mph over the speed limit over. Sorry I tried to help.
The tollbooths I'm talking about are at the end of a bridge on I-80 over the Carquinez Straits. The speed limit is 65mph, until you get to the front end of the bridge, where the speed limit becomes 55mph, and there are 4 lanes on the bridge. At the other end of the bridge, the 4 lanes become about 15 lanes or so. On the right are the cash-paying lanes, where people have to stop and pay the ransomeer- I mean toll taker. On the left are a few lanes that people with FasTrak transponders can proceed through without stopping ( their transponder gets read electonically and your credit card gets billed automatically ). The key here is you don't need to stop, but there is a speed limit sign on the toll huts ( that are still there but not used ) that says the speed limit is 25mph, but nobody who is cruising at 55mph slows down to 25 mph for the few feet before the speed limit becomes 65mph again. If you fly through the toll readers, I think some people think that the machine won't read the transponders ( but their picture gets taken and they get charged anyways )
A few people have scared the crap outta me buzzing me on my bike going about 80mph through there.
I posted this ( trying to help ) for two reasons-
1. If someone were to go through at 35mph ( which would seem perfectly safe after slowing down from 65mph ), they'll get nailed. On a bike it's pretty safe, but in a car it's close to be edge on both sides.
2. For the people who feel like they can fly through there at 70mph because there are no cops around, and you've just crossed a county line so no cop is going to follow you into another county, I would hope that hearing that CHP is cherry-picking $peeders and writing high-dollar ticket$ would maybe get them to slow down.
But if I offended some people by trying to help, I can't BEGIN to tell you how sorry I am. So feel free to either get a high dollar speeding ticket or get hit by someone who is going 50mph over the speed limit over. Sorry I tried to help.
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LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging...it is a laser form of radar...you can aim it and detect speed of a object accuratly up to 1000ft or more. It shoots a laser beam instead of the radio waves. When you see officers using a handheld unit they aim it like a gun held right on their face. It is not like the radar units mounted on their dash.
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