Help Please!!

[Oyusan]

Let me add to the above that, a RD is no longer enough. With at least half the cops now using laser instead of radar, you need a laser jammer too, or else you may as well have nothing. That's another thousand bucks, plus installation and testing. Unless you're ready to pony up nearly two grand to get equipped, you may as well just slow down, whether your parents approve or not.

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"Their car, their house, their rules."

The day before I turned 16, I went down to Best Buy and bought a $40 Cobra. Yeah I know, I was young and foolish. Then the day I turned 16, I got a note for school and went and got my license. Passed the test with no errors. =D So my dad gave me one of our farm trucks as a starter. A ford F-150 with nearly 300k miles. So just after I got my license, and just before I left to school... I hooked up my $40 radar detector. High School was only about 10 miles highway drive. I got pulled over for 95+ on my first day of being a licensed driver. (no radar alert) I didn't even have a license card to give the CHP... just a print out. The CHP lady was P1$$3D!!!!! She chewed me out for like 10 minutes, before she let me go. My dad never found out. If he would have, I wouldn't have been driving for the next two years. The point is: As a young kid with no sense, I could have gotten into a lot of trouble.

I later came to realize, that there is one very very important factor to speeding.

-------> Being a good/safe driver.

Anyone can speed and swerve through cars, but I am a firm believer that it requires experience and concentration. If I were you, I would take the above advice (few posts up) and ask for performance driving school. Sell it to your parents on how much it will improve your driving and knowledge of the road.

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BTW, when I started working for my company, my dad was never too happy that I was using a radar detector driving a company car. You can imagine the picture it painted.

Want to know how I solved that problem? I gave him a radar detector - kinda for a father's day present. An Escort 8500 Blue. When he got it, he had 3 points on his record. He has not gotten one single ticket since I gave it to him, and its been long enough that all 3 points are gone. Plus, hes changed his view on radar detectors.

-Oyu

P.S. Welcome to the forums.