Originally Posted by
lear4406
Radar detectors are a good investment and will pay for themselves the first time they save your butt from a ticket. Speeding tickets run over $200.00 and a good radar detector is north of $600.00. But shop on E-bay and get a good used one for a 1/3 of the price. I try to stay just 5-7 mph over posted speeds on the interstate. I do 45 in a 45 and 35 in a 35. But when in a 55 mph zone I go a little faster and so on. But radar detectors of today can do alot for you.
That's how I drive as well - no need to speed in residential areas. However, I got 3 tickets in a span of 6 months on Hwy 401, posted limit 100 kmh, doing 130 kmh (62& 80 mph). Generally acceptable by the police to do 120 up here, but each time I was "going with the flow" in my Avalanche. I think I must have been nailed each time by one of the lasers beamed on the big truck.