Are any tests done for lidar?

Do you guys test on a regular basis?

Like have 2-3 officers drive by in marked cars and test various devices to see if they all get same speed and if that matches the car?

But then what ensures the speed in the police interceptor is also accurate?

Only 14 over though no demerit points.

Quite right nice officer indeed.

Although for insurance purposes all moving infractions do add up.

I would say its your choice to take it to court and depends on how your insurer will treat it.

Wow 8-10 minutes.

What do you do if your following the guys exit comes up?

Would you get off and follow him to his house if it was close?

Wondering cause usually OPP HSD does 400 series highways so if you follow for a few mins calling the plates in, etc. Then what do you do if the person gets off? Follow? Or just make the stop turn the lights on and wait in the car until the driver is cleared, then approach???

Would make sense though, call in, if he or she gets off highway first safe place close to road stop them, wait for the reply for a few mins, when checked approach to confront driver.

Just another thing i noticed today or another reason to hate on these lanes. people sit in them and then realize the line is solid so they are not allowed to get over for their exit. So the result if they often cut over going slower then the passing lane with a solid line to get off at their exit. The 403 for example, you can be in the HOV lane and the HOV just turns into the 401 express, there is no way to get over for the 410. There is no way of knowing when the paint will end. These lanes, even people with more than 2 people dont always use them. If they want to go fast anyways they just ge...

Wow 12 hour shifts! Patience must be thin. Let's say on a night shift would you actually be on the road the whole time since no court or nothing else to do? I think R.I will make his next trip in that way around a Tuesday around 9-5 possibly :roll: Very interesting but i wasnt sure if it was just me noticing. I do believe this though for a few reasons. Limit is 100, de facto is more like 115-130. It's hard to hand out tickets when the whole lane is cruising at 130.... Soooooo, ill take a wild guess but with the way people drive in the GTA region, you have to do something pretty bad to get the ...

Wow Squishy thats almost 175 km/hr. I have seen fast flows of traffic in Ontario but never anything like that, although i have heard stories of that happening in a few places like the QEW near the skyway, and the 401 out around Belleville, Kingston area, i am sure it happens on the 400 a bit to. Speaking of fast officers. I have never seen that but i have seen plenty of officer's going 130-140 in the left lane. I remember months ago on the 401 for some reason they're was 2 or 3 of them at an accident, the tahoe stayed then you had an UC and a marked car both going like 135 in the left lane tai...

Yep squishy new york state is funny. When you drive there you look around and wonder why they all drive the speed limit, then youll go in the left lane to pass them, look behind some guy flashing their lights and guess what!!! They're from Ontario to. But some southern states are very aggressive drivers. Miami i have experienced, i heard LA highways are nuts, in new york city is nuts aswell, Knoxville, and Memphis TN alot of very fast drivers aswell. From what i have heard Atlanta is pretty bad to. Although they do go really fast there alot going 80 mph they do tend to follow lane discipline, ...

Agree with you on that squishy. This happens alot. You get all the trucks in the right lane stuck at 100, or those who drive really slow. So then the capped trucks go into the middle lane trying to pass at like 3 km/hr faster. Or all the people who hate having to deal with all the people merging into the right lane, as a result people only use the 2 left most lanes. So then all the cars in the middle at 115-120 get into the left lane and all the people who were going 140-130 begin to go nuts because they are being slowed down. And then guess what happens? The people who were in the left lane w...

Sorry just looked at intersection on google unlikely,

Were you entering the highway when this happened and got into the right lane to early while it was still solid?

From the way I interpret it, she drove onto the paved shoulder before the start of the off-ramp, entered the off-ramp, noticed the officer, and merged back onto the highway for the "move over" law (which, by the way, does not apply unless emergency lights are flashing) - and then the officer waved her and another car over. I think the officer may even have thought she was trying to skip ahead of traffic by passing on the off-ramp. Yep squishy i would say the exact same thing as you. I have been at that exit aswell to. She was probably heading east bound (traffic is terrible there no...

PS was out tonight your right about the Spectre, saw 2 of them parked for a break. Both did not have the Spectre RDD. You were also telling me that not all the cars have a built in radar unit. I don't know how you guys would do it. But lets say in the GTA region you might have 15 officers on a shift? So would a commander or Boss assign roles to these guys? Like have lets say 5 of them on dispatch waiting for calls maybe during rush hour, then send out like another 5 to watch doing speed, traffic, enforcement looking for aggressive drivers etc, then the other 5 head off to court to fight ticket...

Makes alot of sense. Plus why order cars for highway patrol with alloys that would certainly cost alot more and would be hard to justify buying them with citizens tax dollars. Maybee wrong thread. On a cop car on the back you sometimes will see 2-3 of these dome like things. They are circular near the back of the roof and kinda flat, maybe stick out like 1 inch max. Then you usually got 2 Antenna's. 1 Very long one and a short one just above it. Curious about why they are these. Secondly most cop cars for example Peel do not have this! But most new halton, peel, and TPS cars have those circula...

I remember R.I tellin me that detachment at Chatam makes the Ohio Highway Patrol look like boy Scout's!

Man bear you guys must have so much fun at work

5 chase cars at one lidar trap crazy!

P.S i never asked you before. Whats your favorite vehicle to drive ?

I bet those Tahoe must be fun to drive with those massive 5 L + V8's.

Those new "ghost paint/marking" black undercover cars look cool as hell to. The back bumper looks nice as you approach and it gets some light looks really nice when it just sort of fades in.

Sorry just for those unaware of the term HOV.

HOV = High Occupancy Vehicle Lane

Basically they are lanes on the left side of the highway (even left of the passing lane) Usually a 4th lane added for vehicles carrying more than 1 passenger and have restricted access so you can only enter / exit the lanes at certain times or markings on the road.

(Reflections can you add this to the Slang and Terms sticky?)

Just wondering what you guys think of those HOV lanes. Sure these lanes are faster then usual but i think they present a ton of problems, now the first thing i want to clear up is often we say speed is dangerous. Okay i can believe that depending on the context and situation its used in. But i think most of us here can agree the real dangerous thing is the difference in the speed of vehicles. I feel this is the real problem with these people who go 50 over, or the dilemma the 100 km/hr speed limit causes with most doing 115-130 and very few going 100. I notice this to now with trucks limited. ...