Radar Detectors 2019

**O3H** · February-19-19, 03:46 PM

Would you continue the trip in an UBER/LYFT if the driver pulled out
a battery power radar detector and placed it on the dash ?

**Pat001** · February-20-19, 05:51 AM

Originally Posted by O3H

Would you continue the trip in an UBER/LYFT if the driver pulled out
a battery power radar detector and placed it on the dash ?

Let me tell you about an experience I had riding in a taxi in Beijing. A co-worker and I were in a taxi on our way back to our hotel after a meeting. We were stopped in heavy traffic when someone riding a bicycle sideswiped the taxi. Taxi driver got out, saw scratch on door, got back in the taxi and chased after the cyclist. Taxi driver pulled alongside the cyclist, then used his taxi to run the cyclist off the road into a ditch. Taxi driver got out, and got into a heated argument with the cyclist. Cyclist then pulled out his wallet and handed money to the cab driver. Cyclist rode away. Taxi driver got back in the taxi and drove us back to our hotel.

So, to respond to your question, if an Uber/Lyft driver wanted to use a radar detector, that would not bother me at all.

**Zacha341** · February-20-19, 08:47 AM

^^^ Goodness and to think that was all handled without shots ringing out!

**Pat001** · February-20-19, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by Zacha341

^^^ Goodness and to think that was all handled without shots ringing out!

This was Beijing. Not Detroit.

**Zacha341** · February-20-19, 09:53 AM

^^^ Or Chicago......

**O3H** · February-20-19, 01:14 PM

I have little doubt that many "drivers" in the metro Detroit are packing heat

**Don K** · February-23-19, 10:44 PM

I bought an Escort in 1984, when I was driving a Mustang SVO and realised I was driving at speeds [[80 or so) that would get me a ticket even in Michigan. Back then, the State Police all seemed to run with their radar on full-time and full-power, so I would get an alert with a couple of miles advance warning. It only failed me one afternoon in 1989 in Kansas. I was driving a Taurus SHO, and had been good all day, until late in the afternoon on a two-lane state highway I decided to open it up a little. About a mile ahead I saw a car crest a hill so I lifted a little, then I got the alert. It was a county sheriff carrying instant-on. I had been driving 100+ for a few minutes, but he wrote me up for 95. As it happens, in Kansas, 95 in a 55 zone is a mail-in ticket, so the next day I wrote out a check and sent it to the court.

These days, with freeway limits more in line with what people actually drive, I feel no need to go more than about 5 over, so have no real need for a detector anymore. Well, except on the Lodge autobahn when I'm heading towards the city

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