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HybridDriver
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Posted: 10 Aug 2005 at 2:52pm |
Here's a dillemma. The HOV lanes on 395 travel at easily 75-80 mph, which is obviously speeding. Would you rided with a driver using a radar detector to "beat the odds?"
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carleric
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I'd prefer not to. I've been in cars that were pulled over before and the wait is no fun. Of course, I've NEVER seen someone pulled over for a radar detector, even though they're illegal in VA. As a slug I doubt I'd notice it in the first place, unless it was obvious.
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scottt
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What's the difference between 75-80 with a detector and 75-80 without one?
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Dhacim
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RoadRunner, you can do 75-80 in HOV-3 in both that afternoons and evenings, trust me, I do it. In fact, most often people are blowing past me. There was a thread like this last year where a bunch of people were claiming its impossible to do, yet I have no problem finding the time windows where it is possible.
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mariam0673
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I do 80 most of the way AM and PM...and sometimes people still pass me.
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Dhacim
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RR, we leave right around the same times, I leave stafford at 7:30 or 7:40 leave Rosslyn slug line around 5:30...never a problem doing 80 most of the way, it gluts up a little but nothing serious.
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vabigblue
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"nothing serious". Eighty isn't serious?
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NoSUV
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Gosh, all this with hybrids in the lanes? What was VDOT thinking when they said the exemption must expire?
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Dhacim
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quote: What are you taking about? I was saying the traffic doesn't slow up that bad. I don't want another discussion about 80 being too fast. I believe you and I went through this same discussion last year. Arent you retired law enforcement? If so, then yes we already had this discussion. BTW, I'm not the only one doing 80 out there..... |
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vabigblue
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quote: What are you talking about? You were the one who mentioned 80 not being serious. Yeh, we had the same conversation last year and we'll have it again as long as you are encourging drivers to exceed the limit by mentioning ANYTHING about the seriousness of speed. |
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