Important Radar Gun

[Zxenk]

Please allow the radar gun to be used in the passenger seat or while stopped. This allows for a more fun style of camping for speeders then pulling them over. When you are standing and using it, the car disappears by the time you get moving in your patrol unit.

[Jumbled Hokum]

you don't need to stop the speeder when using the radar gun. You just get the speed and left click to get a picture while the gun is up and it will give you an option to submit the picture or discard it. speed limit and the cars speed is shown on the picture.

[Zxenk]

Yes, I'm saying it would be more fun to be able to camp and radar detect in your car and having a interaction on them speeding instead of only photoing or pacing.

[Alpha Depty]

i agree, it whould put more realize in the game, and btw they call it several things, speed trap, or they whoud say theyre running radar

[J. Sherpard]

i agree with you. Be able to use the radar gun inside the vehicle.

[Futuristic Hexagon]

It is interesting too, I don't see speed traps like the one in game too often in the states. They're more common in Europe.

In the US I usually see them checking the speed in their car with the gun out the window (and then pulling folks over) or usually standing on an overpass and then radioing in speeders to a bunch of motor cops hidden on the embankment on the other side of the overpass.

[Lion Heart]

Originally posted by Zxenk:

Please allow the radar gun to be used in the passenger seat or while stopped. This allows for a more fun style of camping for speeders then pulling them over. When you are standing and using it, the car disappears by the time you get moving in your patrol unit.

This is exactly what I want, that’s how police operate irl
They sit in a convenient spot using their radar and then pull over speeders.
The radar gun taking pictures. We have that in Australia they are mobile speed cameras not operated by the police, and people despise them way more than the highway patrol

[Sid1701d]

Actually, there is not really the need for radar guns in police cars because the cop should be focused on the road and not the street, which all you have to do is drive around your get a yellow bar sometimes, if cars move faster than you its most likely they are breaking the speed limit. Edit its called pacing, if you are driving the speed limit you can pull them over and give them a speeding ticket.

[Futuristic Hexagon]

Originally posted by Sid1701d:

Actually, there is not really the need for radar guns in police cars because the cop should be focused on the road and not the street, which all you have to do is drive around your get a yellow bar sometimes, if cars move faster than you its most likely they are breaking the speed limit. Edit its called pacing, if you are driving the speed limit you can pull them over and give them a speeding ticket.

IRL speed traps are very much a thing. Here in Central FL, they commonly set up on Underpasses, in the median where they have U turn areas (sometimes there will be 2 or 3 just chilling) and a less common one here, but usually a more organized effort will be them sitting on the top of an overpass and clocking traffic from it, then calling in the speed to a group of (usually Motorcycle) officers waiting out of sight (usually on the embankment on the other side.) They can either speed and catch up with a speeder, or flag them down.

There Sheriffs office tends to often set up a speed trap every so often near where I live too where they'll have an officer with a radar gun wearing some crazy costume, but it a leprechaun or an elf, or even have a big beefy guy dress up like a hooker and radio to a bunch waiting in a church parking lot nearby.

[wladi | astragon]

It's actually already on our Trello as a community wish - so feel free to vote for it, we're definitely considering it :)

https://trello.com/c/GnuUVNHL/381-being-able-to-use-the-radar-gun-inside-a-patrol-car

[Moebius]

I would be happy with a script allowing us to use the radar gun, then pursue and pullover the speeding offender and be able to fine them for speeding.

[Trellek]

Okay, this is irrelevant to the OP's point, which is a good one, and I definitely agree with it. Also, if we could get bicycles and motorcycles, which are both great ways to put radar guns in places patrol cars don't fit.

However, there's a common misunderstanding of terminology that kinda annoys me every time I see it, and it's relevant to police identifying and citing speeders, so...

Originally posted by superdestroyer39:

[...]btw they call it several things, speed trap[...]

In quite a lot of the United States, a speed-trap is (legally) a very specific thing that relies on how speed limits work. Speed limits apply to the area between each sign. For example, this would mean: that you don't accelerate to enter a 55 until you pass the 55 sign. Meanwhile, in the other direction, you decelerate before entering a lower-posted limit from a higher, such that you're compliant with the lower limit before passing the sign.

Speed-traps exploit this by posting a high speed limit and then having a hard-to-see or unusually positioned low speed limit sign a very short distance away; too short to realistically both reach the higher posted limit and then decelerate to the lower. Officers or speed cameras are then placed, usually in a concealed manner, a very short distance past this second—lower—sign to infract anyone who fails to spot the second sign. This is the 'trap'; drivers accelerate to the higher limit and are unable to reach the lower limit before passing the second sign, leaving them in violation of the new speed zone.

An example of this in the area I live in would be on the local college campus. Along one of the main roads entering the campus, there's a large sign indicating a 30 MPH speed zone. Less than fifty feet away, there's a second sign, much smaller, like those that indicate parking zones, that marks the area as being a 20 MPH speed zone. Because it's a college campus, and due to the city's laws, getting stopped on the other side of the lower limit sign is automatically 'reckless driving in a pedestrian priority zone', plus a flat cite for at least five over, plus a further flat cite for each mile per hour over past the first five.

In conclusion, planting a patrol car immediately on the other side of speed zone change is not a speed trap. Drivers are expected to identify and respond appropriately to changing speed zones, and officers are within their rights to infract people who fail to do so in a safe and legal manner. A speed trap is when a jurisdiction goes out of its way to limit or eliminate the ability of an attentive driver to identify changing speed zones, then punishes drivers for that failure. In most jurisdictions, deliberately building speed traps is unlawful (report to your state) due to the fact that they create unsafe driving conditions in their vicinity.

EDIT: Spelling and grammar corrections.