Braking Specifications

[fenutah]

i received a traffic ticket about 2 months ago and have decided to contest. i was radared by a policeman 420' from the entrance of a school zone while he was looking in his rear view mirror (he was directly in front of me parked 10' from the crosswalk). Making maters even more suspicious- he's claiming he radared me exactly as i entered. since he was directly in front of me it would have been very difficult to know exactly when i crossed the line. If i can get the policeman to admit that i could have been 30-50 feet outside of the school zone line when he radared i shouldn't have a problem prooving my car can't slow down that fast. In order to prove this I'm trying to determine, from a reliable source, how many feet it takes my car to go from 40 mph to 20 mph. i also have michelen pilot sport cups on my car which should also improve the spec's.

[tomnash]

If you can establish "a reasonable doubt" that you were not in the school speed zone when radar-measured, you should not be found guilty of violating the school zone limit. How fast you might have slowed down before actually entering the zone should not be the issue.

However, I would not count on a traffic court applying the law appropriately.

Edited November 18, 2008 by tomnash

[wvicary]

It depends if your car has the optional anchor braking device.....

[function12]

Go here and post your question. These guys love a good fight.

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/how-beat-your-ticket/