Jim Rogers
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I once sat on an interstate overpass in a Illinois State Police car with my friend who at that time had spent 20 years on the road. We blocked his view of the radar. He called out the speed of cars. He never missed by more than 1 MPH!
I asked him how he did it and he said after years and years of experience, he became a very good judge of speed. Made a believer out of me.
But when asked "Do you know how fast you were going?" I always answer "No, but fast enough that I got your attention." Don't admit guilt, don't lie.
I was a cop for 10 years. One of the requirements to get the certification to use radar was to successfully estimate the speed of 30 vehicles within +/- 1 mph of what the radar gun indicated. It is actually not that tough. While the radar unit was used to get the scientific measurement, the requirement for writing the ticket was that the officer first had to visually observe the violation followed up with the radar measurement. So, if she/he sees ya, most likely they got ya, at least in the Commonwealth.