Just been done for 50mph in a 40 and there is no way I was doing that, speedo would have indicated 51-52 (gps reference overread of 1-2mph) and it was a pitch black road, after coming around a left hand corner with main beams on, having seen the Ford S-Max parked broad side on, Police livery lightning up like a punch to the face. Second I saw it I checked my speedo and it read a solid 42. I didn't even lift off, or break and was shocked beyond all belief he pulled me over on Blues. I even knew what car it was AS I came around the corner it was that obvious.
400.54 Metre, opposite side of the road to me in a gravel layby/carpark.
I am somehow doubting from the place he was standing he could have got an accurate reading at 400 metres considering the darkness and conditions.
Google Earth of the distance from his location and a 3.5 second exposure of the area (marked with red box) he gunned me in.
Do they just aim at my Xenons and shoot or what? If So, hitting the curvature of my bonnet at 400 metres gives a what 1 foot - 1.5foot wide laser beam to bounce back from? I know these things supposedly have erro checking in them and so many of the reflected beams need to read an average but how am I supposed to interpret any error codes when he shows me the readout? You can see part of the hedgerow/sand dunes in the bottom left of the red box, he was gunning from the passenger window of the car so would have been a fair few metres back from the edge of the road and viewing/shooting over it.
Do the googles/guns (whatever they are) have Night vision to somehow make out an area on my car to gun?
Parish hall inquiry in August where I will say my part, even if I was doing 50 on probably one of the remotest roads on the island at 2145 I don't think the punishment will be severe, but I know I was not doing 50.
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400.54 Metre, opposite side of the road to me in a gravel layby/carpark.
I am somehow doubting from the place he was standing he could have got an accurate reading at 400 metres considering the darkness and conditions.
Google Earth of the distance from his location and a 3.5 second exposure of the area (marked with red box) he gunned me in.
Do they just aim at my Xenons and shoot or what? If So, hitting the curvature of my bonnet at 400 metres gives a what 1 foot - 1.5foot wide laser beam to bounce back from? I know these things supposedly have erro checking in them and so many of the reflected beams need to read an average but how am I supposed to interpret any error codes when he shows me the readout? You can see part of the hedgerow/sand dunes in the bottom left of the red box, he was gunning from the passenger window of the car so would have been a fair few metres back from the edge of the road and viewing/shooting over it.
Do the googles/guns (whatever they are) have Night vision to somehow make out an area on my car to gun?
Parish hall inquiry in August where I will say my part, even if I was doing 50 on probably one of the remotest roads on the island at 2145 I don't think the punishment will be severe, but I know I was not doing 50.
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