I rarely do it for speed traps, I reserve it for telling people their high beams are on.
Ian F wrote:On I-95 in PA flashing high beams for speed traps are common.
And yet they almost never slow down.
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Aug. 31, 2011 12:42 a.m. Grizz Reader
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Aug. 31, 2011 3:22 p.m. wbjones SuperDork
foxtrapper wrote:
I've always found cops opposition to flashing to be absurd. For it slows traffic down to the speed limit, which supposedly is the objective of the police.
Flash cars and they tend to slow down, looking for the trap. Only after they have found the trap do they speed back up. So you end up with a situation the police should be happy about, no one speeding.
The only reason they can actually be upset is if having people obey the law is not the objective. If the objective is actually to generate tickets, and thereby revenue.
Not that you'll ever get a cop to admit it of course.
I asked a state highway patrolman that very question once... is the radar used for safety ( to get those of us that use radar detectors to slow down ) or for revenue generation.... his reply was ... both.... pure and simply both
