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Can You Get Copped In Sl For Having A Radar Detector?

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Hiran690 Newbie

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  On 12/28/2010 at 4:33 AM, Az said:

I recently purchased a Cobra 9-band radar detector. I was wondering whether it is legal to use it in SL. Thoughts please.

from where did you purchase? i also wanna buy one of that. would be really useful when driving down southbiggrin.gif

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  On 12/28/2010 at 6:57 AM, jaga said:

Inlegal.

Technically AFAIK there is no specific reference to detectors in the law as yet. So basically you CAN use one at your own discretion. So far, they cant actually stop you for having a radar detector.

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  On 12/28/2010 at 7:28 AM, Az said:

What does that mean?

Hi AZ

I think there is a spellings mistake, he intended to say that is

illegal.by the law there might be no obstacle but if you are cough

cops might make an issue for sure , :)

thanks

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sumith

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  On 12/28/2010 at 7:28 AM, Az said:

What does that mean?

I am sorry. Should be illegal. I asked one of police officer about this gadget sometime back and he said that since it is obstructing the duty of traffic corp it is illegal. Only thing is corps will never know the radar is inside and most of the cases it can't be traced :D

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  On 12/28/2010 at 8:17 AM, jaga said:

I am sorry. Should be illegal. I asked one of police officer about this gadget sometime back and he said that since it is obstructing the duty of traffic corp it is illegal. Only thing is corps will never know the radar is inside and most of the cases it can't be traced :D

Most cops wont even know what it does, even if you get caught you can always say "It came with the car when i imported it, i dont even know what it does" :D

BTW is it a good idea to bring one of these down by USPS or UPS without hand carrying it ?

will the good folks in the customs give me any trouble ?

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  On 12/28/2010 at 7:21 PM, LaZyBoY said:

Are the cops back to using speed guns again? If not, why would you need one of these things?

Yes, cops have been using speed guns for the past few months. They charge you for reckless driving or something like that. Last week, there were cops with speed guns even on the Marine Drive.

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The Radar detector goes off on RF signals, The cobra I have started beeping when a cop flagged me down for a random check..... He asked me what it was...I said its an Air purifier unit sitting on the windscreen ....and it beeps when it detected the glass is open and when there was a change in the air.....he bought it !

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  On 12/29/2010 at 4:51 AM, milano340 said:

The Radar detector goes off on RF signals, The cobra I have started beeping when a cop flagged me down for a random check..... He asked me what it was...I said its an Air purifier unit sitting on the windscreen ....and it beeps when it detected the glass is open and when there was a change in the air.....he bought it !

Nice. In my case, whenever I go with the detector on, cops never appear with speed guns, that's the best feature it has lol

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toyota sucks Newbie

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The cops are mad for pray now.

I was coped 4 times on my way to matara yesterday without any reason

All they complained i was crossing sngle lines actualy i overtook just after or before the line and was in line before it.

I hope the gov will give the cops 3d glasses cause they can't see where the wehicles were going :angry-smiley-024: :angry-smiley-024:

By the way funny speed limits here same 70kmph for 800cc(maruti) and 300c

Don't tell this to the cops they will increase the limit for the one haveing a 500 and a c more :angry-smiley-048:

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  On 12/28/2010 at 7:21 PM, LaZyBoY said:

Are the cops back to using speed guns again? If not, why would you need one of these things?

Yep they are back and they are also installing cctv cams, soon they might install speed cams as well.

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  On 12/29/2010 at 8:19 AM, toyota sucks said:

By the way funny speed limits here same 70kmph for 800cc(maruti) and 300c

Don't tell this to the cops they will increase the limit for the one haveing a 500 and a c more :angry-smiley-048:

What the hell are you on about? :huh:

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  On 12/29/2010 at 8:19 AM, toyota sucks said:

The cops are mad for pray now.

I was coped 4 times on my way to matara yesterday without any reason

All they complained i was crossing sngle lines actualy i overtook just after or before the line and was in line before it.

I hope the gov will give the cops 3d glasses cause they can't see where the wehicles were going :angry-smiley-024: :angry-smiley-024:

By the way funny speed limits here same 70kmph for 800cc(maruti) and 300c

Don't tell this to the cops they will increase the limit for the one haveing a 500 and a c more :angry-smiley-048:

Dude what on earth are you talking about ?

are you comparing a maruti 800 with a Chrysler 300c speed ?

i dont get it :huh:

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  On 12/29/2010 at 8:19 AM, toyota sucks said:

The cops are mad for pray now.

I was coped 4 times on my way to matara yesterday without any reason

All they complained i was crossing sngle lines actualy i overtook just after or before the line and was in line before it.

I hope the gov will give the cops 3d glasses cause they can't see where the wehicles were going :angry-smiley-024: :angry-smiley-024:

By the way funny speed limits here same 70kmph for 800cc(maruti) and 300c

Don't tell this to the cops they will increase the limit for the one haveing a 500 and a c more :angry-smiley-048:

People have requested so many times but you never reveal what you smoke. Why don’t you share the secret with us? Pls pls pls.. :rolleyes:

Oh, and have you ever heard of/been to a county where traffic speed limits are set according to car engine size? Me haven’t… :blink:

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  On 12/31/2010 at 5:08 AM, MrCat said:

People have requested so many times but you never reveal what you smoke. Why don’t you share the secret with us? Pls pls pls.. :rolleyes:

Oh, and have you ever heard of/been to a county where traffic speed limits are set according to car engine size? Me haven’t… :blink:

I'll have what he had....!!! :angry-smiley-048::alc: lol

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isam Newbie

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The idea of speed ticketing is to slow down the drivers right? so how come a radar detector is illegal? if the police can use radars without pre-warning we have the right to capture the signal. Isn't it?

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  On 12/31/2010 at 11:23 AM, isam said:

The idea of speed ticketing is to slow down the drivers right? so how come a radar detector is illegal? if the police can use radars without pre-warning we have the right to capture the signal. Isn't it?

Dunno bout the legality, but I suppose they wouldn't want us slowing down just for them and then zooming off. :D

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  On 12/31/2010 at 11:23 AM, isam said:

The idea of speed ticketing is to slow down the drivers right? so how come a radar detector is illegal? if the police can use radars without pre-warning we have the right to capture the signal. Isn't it?

In some countries they are legal, in fact some even recommend them to motorist since on high ways they have speed cams and these things will go nuts from time to time keeping the motorists within the speed limit most of the time.Its a good tactic but i doubt if it will work here.

the idea of a radar detector is to warn us when cops are checking for speed, so technically you still do something wrong but get away with it.I dont think such a thing can be legalized here.

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  On 1/1/2011 at 3:12 AM, The Stig said:

the idea of a radar detector is to warn us when cops are checking for speed, so technically you still do something wrong but get away with it.I dont think such a thing can be legalized here.

If the motorists do slow down in the areas which need to be slowed down, (detector or not) whats illegal?

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