Officer pulls out their gun BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Officer: Suspect is down. Suspect had a gun.
I once responded with “honestly no but I mustn’t have have be doing the speed limit or we wouldn’t be here”. It got a laugh and I was let off with a warning. For the record, I’m a white guy with a mustache. Cops love mustaches
It’s easier for them if you incriminate yourself.
“yes, I do, if you can tell me how fast you think I was going I’ll happily corroborate whether your information is correct or not”.
Only if you knew you weren’t speeding and/or have a dashcam that records your speed.
but i know where I am.
No, it is definitely the driver’s job to keep an eye on how fast they’re going.
Why
So they don’t kill people around them who are driving responsibly
So they know when they set a P.B. without having to be told.
Ok so you are allowed to drive 30 km/h.
What do you do?
A) read your speedometer in order to drive according to the speed limit.
B) just wing it and guess the speed.
C) ask the policeman who you almost run over.
What is km/h?
1 km/h = 0,62137119 mph
Buddy, we’ve been over this, I don’t look at speed.
What is mph?
You’re annoying
Hurtful
Miles per hour. =mph
Kilometers per hour. = kph or km/h
I like the km/h because it is more correct and easier to read (given you have basic education)
Measurement that’s Phucking Horrible
Ohhhh, like Celsius, I see.
Answering this question makes it easy for the cop to write it in his report that you admitted guilt.
I know someone who said he has no idea what his speed was. When the cop was pressing harder and harder to get him to accept he asked “do you have a calibrated speed gun in your car”. The cop admitted he didn’t and the guy said “this conversation is over then”, and the cop let him drive off.
In my youth (look, this was like a decade ago, I don’t speed much these days), I had a nice car with superb high-speed stability and a big engine (by my standards at the time anyway). It was a super beautiful spring evening, I’d just put on my grippy summer tires and the road was damn near empty. So I was cruising at 120 km/h and decided to overtake a bus going 90. Well it wasn’t very difficult to go from 120 to 180 in just a few seconds and then I coasted back to a more sane speed fairly quickly.
So when I got pulled over and the cop asked me if I knew how fast I was going, I said “I don’t know the exact number, I was looking at the road not the speedometer, could you tell me?” and was told they caught me at 120 km/h. Nearly sighed out in relief at that point.
Someone else posted these recently. Always a good reminder:
They get posted in nearly every one of these discussions.
As they should!
I felt like I was being a giant asshole but I got off the same way. Cop was trying to make me admit to driving fast. I said I wasn’t and asked what they clocked me at. They said they didn’t get me with the radar gun. I said “ok,” and just stared at her.
One time a cop lied that he caught be going 94 in a 65. I said “I was not going 94. I’ve never gone 94 in my life.” And he said “Are you saying that wasn’t you?” “I don’t know what you recorded but I wasn’t going 94.” So he goes and sits in his car for a while pretending to check his tapes, then comes back and says “You are definitely the one I recorded.” Conveniently ignoring what I actually said.
Eventually he dropped the speed he was claiming down to like 70 and my dumbass then-21 year old self was like “Oh OK, yeah I was totally going 70, just not 94.” and he handed me a ticket.
I’m still mad about it.
I think that the way to settle a dispute like this isn’t by shouting over the cop. Is it satisfying? I’m sure. Good idea? Never.
It’s on them to prove the speeding happened, and if they can’t back it up in court, it’s a quick dismiss.
“Obviously not fast enough since you caught up with me”
I used to watch this British show called Police Interceptors. The narrator loved talking about how the officers drive Subaru Imprezas and Mitsubishi Evo 9s/10s, and that their top speed is 155mph. My thought was always “So get a car that goes faster than 155, got it”
I dont even need a damned car lol
Most German cars of the 00s have been limited to 155 mph or 250 km/h since about the 90s or 00s. Assuming they’ve got power to go faster, that is.
They’re not super difficult to unlock I hear. Never needed it myself so I’ve never done it, but if I was the kind to need to run away from police cars limited to 155, well… An unlimited 3 liter diesel without any mods to increase power can do a bit over 155. One with a few supporting mods and a remap can likely do near or over 200 on a budget. If gearing allows. In a car that still look and sounds like your ol’ family tractorwagon. You don’t need to get an RS6 or an M5.
Of course if your car chase is going to last several hours or something, you probably don’t want to do it in a 20 year old wagon you’ve modded in your own garage. But for a highway getaway car that’s also stealthy, that’s what I’d recommend. 5 series, A6, or E-Class wagon, 3 liter diesel (okay, the OM642 is not great - recommend an older 3.2 OM648 instead if you want to push big power).
The UK did have an issue with a lotus Carlton that did a bit more than that. I think the cop cars were slower at the time as well.
Fantastic. I watched a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Johnny Knoxville called The Last Stand (loved it, I consider it a hidden gem) and their purpose was to stop a supercar that even a chopper couldn’t follow
Joyride by 5fs from fucking 15 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8mmpQkYbg
“Hi officer, I think I was doing about -”
The only good answer is “to my knowledge I was driving within the limit”.
If you say “yes” and were speeding you’ve just admitted you knew you were speeding, if you say “no” you’ve just admitted you weren’t keeping track of your speed.
“I invoke my 4th and 5th amendment rights” is a much better idea.
It might surprise you to learn that some people live outside of America.
As long as you’re white, otherwise it will be escalating
“Good evening, Officer. Do you know if your spouse knows that you’re a liar?”
I feel like not knowing how fast you were going is also an admission of guilt though. Like, youre supposed to monitor that.
Then don’t answer it. You’re not obligated to.
Am I the only person around here who uses cruise control? Like all the time. Set it for 5 over, and I’m good. With adaptive cruise control, it will even slow you down when the guy in front is going slower.
My problem with ACC is that it makes traffic worse. A competent driver can look 500 feet up the road and think “oh, brake lights, I can literally just coast down and we’ll be going the same speed when they start moving again.” But ACC only looks at the car in front of you, so you get this constant accelerate and brake cycle that ripples backwards. Like on open road its fine, as long as you keep the following distance at a reasonable level, but I swear every asshole with a late model SUV keeps theirs set on tailgate mode, and it means any slowdown turns into stop and go
Edit: also cc is hella inefficient and will chew up a good 10% of your fuel economy on hilly terrain. If you set and forget it’s basically an “I would like to pay more money to the oil company please” button
I’ve found leaving the distance on the ACC at the longest stabilizes the speed pretty well (when people aren’t taking advantage of the fact your car is known for having ACC so they cut you off even if you’re not using it, expecting the computer to give them room. Just cut off Teslas, they have the ACC and it’s a nazi car company. Don’t cut off my VW dammit)
I remember once seeing a test where about two dozen drivers were asked to drive in a large circle. All it takes is one or two brakes in order to have this big accordion effect going through the whole thing.
Not in a hybrid with Hill Descent Control. That’s just more juice in the battery.
That’s cheating :P
It’s the future!
I don’t know if that’s universal for ACC, mine will gradually slow down with traffic as long as I don’t have the follow distance set to the minimum. The only times it hard brakes is when someone cuts me off or if the car(s) ahead slam on their brakes, but even in that case it will try to slow down as gradually as it can while eating up that gap.
Also, on hilly terrain it will allow a fair deviation from the set speed before it will try to accelerate/brake more aggressively (usually +/- 5-10 km/h).
adaptive cruise control
My car originally had that, but one day it came back from the service appointment at the dealership and that was no longer available. Software update removed that, probably because too many people were falling asleep thanks to that and the lane assist shit.
I almost got very messed up in a rental car using that. I was on a fairly tight winding road just West of Klamath Falls in Oregon. There was a concrete barrier median, the roadway, while fast was very 3 dimensional. I was overtaking a logging truck to my right with afternoon sun creating a ton of broken light (really pretty honestly). But the adaptive cruise got messed up with everything going on and did a hard braking when I absolutely didn’t expect and was very much not convenient to keep control. The brakes were worn so it tried to dive to the right, toward the semi. It was very memorable.
Oof. May I ask what car it was? I’ve mostly had good experiences with my car’s ACC (older prius) but I think it’s because I’ve learned its limits and eccentricities. My mother’s car has the ACC and lane keeping (which both work better than mine, but her car is newer and an Acura, not a Toyota. Luxury models, &c.) but they behave very differently than my car’s.
This was a pretty new Dodge Hornet. Now, I’ve been a long–time Dodge hater. For many reasons. But I’m strongly guessing that they’re worse than almost anyone else in the digital realm. It got terrible fuel economy (as all Dodge/Jeep/Chrysler vehicles do) but it was an ineffective hybrid so it also had a tiny fuel tank for that bad mileage. If you can’t get a realistic 400 mile journey in a go, there’s no reason to have a gas engine at all. And I was maybe getting 260 miles between fill ups. Also, I couldn’t get into the fucking thing. So, it’s a Dodge Hornet but it’s really a crossover SUV or whatever they want to call them. In effect, quite a large vehicle. But the entryway was so full of plastic I had to move the seat well back from my driving position to get into it. And even then, I almost always hit my head. All those complaints aside, I have driven a Nissan (which, also, not the biggest fan) but it did have really solid ACC. So I’m guessing the ACC panic in the Dodge was just a Dodge thing or specific to that vehicle. When I got to the coast, I ran it through the car wash and then went and made sure all of the sensors were clean. It still did it again on the trip home with even less reason to freak out (to my knowledge and intuition on the system) but also in a much safer situation.
i was betting ford. our last good ford was a green '94 aerostar, you know the kind. we didn’t get nissan or toyota mileage (either efficiency or distance before the engine died) but it was a good minivan.
Mr. Moneybags
You can just look at him and not answer.
You need to give them license, registration, and proof of insurance, and otherwise comply, but you don’t need to talk to them.
And, it just occurred to me, as an old man, if I could somehow cry it might just make the cop uncomfortable enough to let me go. LOL.
I mean crying kinda works
So my first ticket I should have gotten was in high school. My gf and two of our friends went two towns over to get slurpees (they had the good machine). I got pulled over doing 50 in a 35. Trying to catch up with the rest of our friends who had come along but lost me at a red light). Well all of the girls in the car started crying (for reasons?) and I just told the officer what was going on. I mean I could handle that speeding ticket.
Well after fifteen seconds both the officer and I were having a lot of trouble not laughing. Why the hell were they crying, I was the one who was going to have to pay some money. So he went to his car and giggled for a minute or two, then came back and gave me a warning.
I never got a satisfactory answer why she was crying, but like, teenagers right?
Sob, “Ever since Marie died I’ve had nobody to tell me how fast I’m driving while I keep my eyes on the road. It’s like I’m missing half my soul…”
I missed the part where that’s my problem
“Do you? Or are you trying to copy my answer?”
Five. I’m pretty sure I was doing at least five.
