My NSX responsible of speeding ticket to another car!

[effer]

Have you ever experienced that kind of situation?

Often we read about NSXers being ticketed because sportscars are getting more attention ( especially when they are red!?! ), but recently a guy trying to catch me did it at the wrong place and at the wrong time.

Just in the laser radar range of a hidden cop!

It was almost unreal!

I saw the policeman getting out of his hidden car, standing on the right side of the road and looking in my direction but slightly to my left side and then with his arm pointing the car that was finally catching me right on my left!

Maybe the guy in the catching car realized at this very moment why he was able to catch me!

I just imagine what he would have said to the policeman for his defence!!!

I can assure you that it was a very special feeling while driving my red NSX to escape from radar operation!

I said to myself: I just can't believe it! I am so lucky! Wow!

Of course I wasn't speeding!

 

[nsxtasy]

I don't recall being responsible for someone else's ticket. Then again, if someone else wants to go faster than I am driving, I let him pass. Often I will follow behind him - not tailgating, just following at a safe distance. That way, if there is a radar trap with instant-on radar or laser, he will get the ticket, and I will be able to slow down and avoid one. And this has indeed occurred, numerous times.

In this way, I am quite content being the second fastest car on the road.

 

[effer]

I don't recall being responsible for someone else's ticket.

But this the kind of very probable events because how often do you see cars making speed just to catch us and stay close to our NSX only to admire the car...

And because of that I am always looking in my mirrors to be sure to not being tail hitten during hard braking...

Then again, if someone else wants to go faster than I am driving, I let him pass.

I also do that but sometimes I can't resist to the temptation at some moment to take that car...especially in the curves!

Often I will follow behind him - not tailgating, just following at a safe distance. That way, if there is a radar trap with instant-on radar or laser, he will get the ticket, and I will be able to slow down and avoid one. And this has indeed occurred, numerous times.

Wise driving, this is why speeding can be done relatively safely in the sense of avoiding lots of tickets...

Almost every time I drive my NSX I hit the 200 km/h and as for today I still haven't lose any points nor being ticketed...

In this way, I am quite content being the second fastest car on the road.

I also like to be second fastest far behind big trucks who are always letting go dust and any size particles behind them.


Not tailgaiting is also a good way to minimize stone chips.

Staying behind another car is a very good way to be stealthy considering the minimal frontal area of the NSX!

Best regards

effer

P.S. I agree, the Glen looks like a very nice track! Thanks for the picture!

 

[Brody]

I've been damn lucky lately.The other day I took a friend of mine on a road trip.On the last nice long stretch I was driving at nice speed of 120ish, when I noticed a car behind me following me.I just started to slow down for a corner when Mr. po po came around the corner.My V-1 picked him up so I hit the brakes.The cop turned around and nailed the car behind me
Gotta love it

 

[POWERED by HONDA]

This has happened twice to me in the past year and a half. Both times I was on the lane right next to the fast lane on the freeway. And both while I had the car set on cruise control at 75mph (speed limit at 65mph). You can just see these cars fly to come close to you, then slow down as they get closer, and slowly pass. Makes me smile every time!

 

[SNDSOUL]

Every year we have an event here on the coast that draws thousands of people(mostly older, classic cars) called Crusin the Coast. Its the only time when burn outs and street racing arent really enforced. They let these guys get away with almost anything!! Anyway, last year some friends and I were crusing around, kinda showing off, beating the old muscle cars from light to light. We were in an area that the police were being strict on no burn outs b/c it was in front of a casino, but it was also a great spot to do one so I did. ROASTED THEM DOWN!!! As I pulled away a cop came flying across the parking lot and pulled over my friend behind me in an RX7 for doing the burnout. Aparently the smoke had blow towards his car and from the cops vantage point it looked like he was burnin em down. I got away scot free, my friend a ticket(that I had fixed) and a good laugh for the night.

 

[effer]

...Anyway, last year some friends and I were crusing around, kinda showing off, beating the old muscle cars from light to light. We were in an area that the police were being strict on no burn outs b/c it was in front of a casino, but it was also a great spot to do one so I did. ROASTED THEM DOWN!!!

GREAT!!!

Must be really fun to see their faces!!! I'd love to witness that!

I am sure that some of them must believe that your cars are fully NOS and/or Mega turboed and everything because don't they all think that they're having more than 400hp with their big blocks big displacement carburated engines!!!

Would only be just fun to invest a few minutes to explain them what is SAE net horsepower comparing to sub seventies ways of computing hp!!!

And also the concept of power to weight ratio!

Great from you to have paid the fine for your friend.


Brody: thanks to your V1 - the best detector I have heard...

Powered by Honda: Do cops tolerate a 10 mph speed excess in your area?

In our area it is kind of variable but they tend to be the more and more tolerant: we often get passed while driving at 120-125 km/h ( around 72-75 mph ) on highways of 100 km/h maximum
( around 60 mph ) .

It is not rare to see cars running over 140 km/h ( around 84 mph ).

 

[POWERED by HONDA]

Powered by Honda: Do cops tolerate a 10 mph speed excess in your area?

From my experience, they usually have a "personal speed limit."

I've been told 80mph twice when I was pulled over. Once in Oregon where their limit is 55mph.

But it just all depends. The streets are different. If it's a school/residential/business district, I'm sure they are much more strict.

 

[Jonathan]

I've been told 80mph twice when I was pulled over. Once in Oregon where their limit is 55mph.

You got lucky there. I lived in oregon for the first 27 years of my life, and the police there don't mess around when it comes to speeding. I am amazed how the CHP let people speed here in Califonia, the more common experience in Oregon is to get nabbed going 61 in a 55 for a minimum $109, then they start nit picking your ride to get the ticket up.

If you are going to press your luck in Oregon with speed, you shouldn't do it on the freeways there but the wide open roads in the high desert or inbetween valleys.

On a related note to the topic though, I have lured a few people into speed traps that I knew of (in Oregon actually) that would tailgate me like crazy. I would move over into the next lane, they would typically pull even with me, then I would blip the throttle and watch them take off... right into the speed trap Occasionally I would wave as I drove by and the cop had them pulled over

 

[POWERED by HONDA]

Actually, I wasn't so lucky. The Oregon trooper gave me a ticket for going 82mph. I was mad but I wasn't too mad. At least he didn't catch me when I was going faster while passing cars on their two lane highway. This happened in the middle of nowhere (to me) about 10-20 miles from Bend. He was shooting cars with his radar gun.

When I reached Spokane Washington, I immediately called and ordered myself a Valentine One. I haven't had a speed ticket since. That was my second and last speeding ticket. (This was in 1997.)

... then again, I don't speed as much anymore. I'm too much of a wuss.