Posts Tagged ‘SpeedTrap’

U.K. sentences country’s fastest speeder to jail

Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Back in January, Timothy Jonathan Brady got his 15 minutes of fame when he became the fastest speeder ever caught in Britain. It happened while Brady was rocketing his Porsche 911 down a quiet country road in Oxfordshire at a radar-confirmed 172 mph. He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and has be......

Speed traps be damned! Cobra unveils first radar detector with GPS

Saturday, July 14th, 2007
The feeling one gets when they receive in the mail a hefty ticket for speeding is extremely bad, but the cop-dodging experts at Cobra have come up with a terrific tool. Cobra's XRS R9G is the first US laser and radar detector that utilizes GPS Navigation to warn drivers of known speed trap cameras. ......

Top 10 cities in which NOT to speed

Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Few moments in life are less welcomed than when a sprightly sprint in your automobile is cut short by flashing red lights in your rearview mirror. In that moment, you know that you're out well over $100, you'll have to take time off work for court, and your insurance is likely to go up by 10 percent......

Couple faces charges for busting a speeding cop

Monday, January 1st, 2007
Let's set the scene here. You're a homeowner on a street with a chronic speeding problem. Short of "accidentally" dropping a box of roofing nails in the street, there's not much recourse. You could pester the local constabulary to park one of their radar trailers in your neighborhood to remind folks......

Not again: Blind man caught going 100 mph in Barcelona

Saturday, December 9th, 2006
A blind man was recently caught by a speed camera doing 98 mph on public roads in Spain. The man had lost his sight in a car accident in 1996, and, as he explained to the court, wanted to drive just one more time. So, just like the last time we heard about a sightless driver, the man had his wife si......

New navi in UK guarantees no speeding tickets

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
Though the isle of Britain isn't that large in terms of square miles, it still contains 24,000 potential speed traps (about the same number in Ohio, we think). The Rossini Navigator and Camera Spotter is a satellite navigation unit that has each one of those traps plotted on its digital topography a......

New speed clocking system could exhaust radar/laser detectors

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
New Scientist magazine reports that researchers at the University of Tennessee and Batelle Institute have applied for patents on a system that detects the speed of a passing vehicle based on its exhaust note.The system uses microphones to capture the sound of a passing car, and then filters out all ......