Thanks dude! - dang the bad luck... when are they going to raise the speed limits in IL?

 

Damn right. I know many officers that believe in this ideal. Remember it's EVERYONE'S safety your responsible for.

Doing 10-15 over in a corvette, without "recklessly driving", is much easily over looked then a driver in a POS swerving all over the place.

Honestly, I've seen MORE LEO's overlook corvette's, why I don't know.

 

Are you joking? I guess all those newer cars I see in the daytime around here must have their parking lights on. Seen the new Cadillacs or Pontiacs?

 

Not so, the new Malibu Maxx uses parking lights as DRL's.

 

i'll make sure to go flying through IL. Since i'm getting a ticket for driving my red Z06 anyways,... i might as well make you pick your doors up off the highway before you come after me

 

My wife and I drove over 3100 miles in May on our vacation. We drove on Interstates 95, 81, and 83. Everyone told us that we would be a target for the police but just the oposite. There were times that some ****...d us off by stupid driving. Driving in the fast lanes and going slower than the slow lanes. Did I go around them in a quick manner? You bet that I did. The police were not out just looking for Vettes. Just another old wive's tale??? I think so.

 

Dark tinted windows will get you pulled over very quickly, at least on the I 95 Florida - NY corridor.

But then again Corvettes are not the cars of Drug dealers, gun runners or their mules.

 

 

hehehehe good one..

 

No - DRLs which are very common now have nothing to do with it. Excessive........ E-X-C-E-S-S-I-V-E Speed has everything to do with it!

 

i agree...unless your driving like an jacka$$ then don't worry

 

I don't see how everyone says "no". I know when I look down an empty stretch of highway and see a group of cars coming, I always tend to pay more attention (subliminal curiosity??) to the car with DRL or fog lights on.

I would think it would be the same with a LEO and a radar gun.

I have the fuse pulled to keep from drawing any unecessary attention (pewter blends in with the road good too).

 

An officer working a long stretch of open highway will not generally target just every vehicle coming towards him/her (certainly not on a vehicle with daytime running lights, alone). The speed measurement device would be setting off every warning device in the state (aside from cooking every creature within the RADAR beam... ).
The officer will target a vehicle that he/she believes is travelling at a speed higher than the posted based on experience.
An officer trained/certified in using speed measurement devices usually has to show a pronounced verified ability to accurately judge speed w/o any speed measurement device.
I had to accurately visually judge the speed and record approx. 200 vehicles in various locations (within required %) before I was allowed to use RADAR or VASCAR. It took me days to achieve that 200 vehicle goal. The idea is that the speed measurement device is supportive of the officers visual observation of speed.
In the case of VASCAR, it means Visual Average Speed Computer and Recorder. RADAR and LASER operators required similar training/certification. A stop watch required no specialized training, but it required a verified distance, such as a school zone.
Even with that training, I was allowed to issue only warnings for another 100 stops. My speed measurement "device" was my right thumb for many weeks. The result of the strict training, certification and constant record keeping allowed me to be able to testify as an expert in hundreds of court cases.

 

I got a couple of cop friends where I live and they have told me that they would go after a dumba$$ versus goin after a Vette doin a little over the speed limit. Now of course, not all cops think alike (minus their choice of dohnut shops of course).

My problem are those annoying intersection cameras

I should be getting my 2nd violation in the mail sometime this week. I swear those cameras are rigged

 

I can only fit about a dozen AR-15's in my vette.

Where as a toyota camry I can stuff about 200 of em....

 

I specifically target Corvette's, all colors.

The conversation usually goes something like this

me: Do you know why I pulled you over?

them: (usually) no sir, was I doing something wrong?

me: Sure, just driving a vette drl's on. Figured you needed a ticket for something. Sign here please.

I think most of us oinkers are that way.

OK, the truth is the only real reason a vette sticks out to me is because I own one. I am much more interested in drug arrests then speeding tickets anyways. In my 10 years of expirence corvettes are not the vehicle of choice for the local tweekers.

Although I did pull over a c5 the other day just to see if he had a couple of minutes to talk vette stuff. He was cool. Actually he did not use his blinker to make a turn so I pulled him over for that then talked vette.

 

I almost forgot, red vettes get no tickets in my town.

 

That may be funny to you but seeing the mars lights coming up behind you is a major shot of adrenalin to most of us drivers. It's like a 10 year old pulling a toy 9mm on you. Funny aint it.

I'd be pissed if that's why you wasted my time. The last thing I'd do is shoot the S**t with you.

And you LEOs wonder why you're so loved.

Bang!

 

I think we should let only LEO's chime in. But since there are so many bad assumptions, I'll give mine. I think that ANYTHING that brings attention to your vehicle, will also bring more attention to cops.

Common sense. DRLs certainly catch my eye when I see them, regardless what vehicle it is. Therefore, my vote is that it DOES increase the propability of catching a cop's attention, therefore, increasing the chance of you getting a citation if you were doing something illegal.

 

IM QUIKR - Before you get your panties all waded up, at 2am on weekend nights I will pull over every vehicle for any violation.

Sorry you took me so literally, I will clarify.

It was 2am I was looking for dui's he did not use his blinker, I pulled him over for that. He had not been drinking and was more than happy to take a couple of minutes to talk about vettes.

One of the most dangerous things we do is pull people over. It is also dangerous for the occupants of the vehicle being stopped. Not to mention no probable cause is a violation of civil rights.

Relax.