Florida to become 2nd state to ban radar detectors?

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While browsing, stumbled upon this article:

Thanks to Florida State Senator Steve Oelrich, the Sunshine State could become the second state in the union to ban the use of radar detectors by motorists. Oelrich proposed the bill to the state legistature on Wednesday, which would make the use of radar detectors in the state a secondary traffic infaction punishable by a ticket if the offending motorist were pulled over for another offense.

The arguments against radar detectors are well documented, the most obvious being that users believe they can speed at will and not get caught. Those who actually use radar detectors know that they are anything but a free pass to speed on public roads. In my own great state of Ohio, radar detectors are used to navigate the mine field of speed traps that plague our roadways.

Currently, Virginia and Washington D.C. are the only areas of the U.S. where the use of a radar detector in any vehicle is illegal. New York and Illinois have laws against radar detectors being used in commercial vehicles, while Minnesota and California have laws against hanging anything from a vehicle's windshield, which includes radar detectors.

[Source: PR Newswire]

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/03/01/florida-to-become-2nd-state-to-ban-radar-detectors/


What are the chances of this actually being implemented and if so, within what type of a time-frame? Thoughts/opinions?

 

[Malibu Rapper]

Radar detectors are easy to detect with VG2 and Spectre. You should get one of these and hide it.

 

[Black 94 #400]

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Just to want thank you for the article. Hopefully it’s not late to, do something, to try and stop this from pass.

PS
love the picture of the girl giving the I-4 wave :biggrin:

 

[steveny]

Radar detectors are easy to detect with VG2 and Spectre. You should get one of these and hide it.

So how long will it be before there is a radar detector, detector, detector?:biggrin:

 

[heySkippy]

I don't see this happening in FL. Lots of things get proposed, not so many actually get passed.

 

[dcrandon]

While browsing, stumbled upon this article:


http://www.autoblog.com/2007/03/01/florida-to-become-2nd-state-to-ban-radar-detectors/


What are the chances of this actually being implemented and if so, within what type of a time-frame? Thoughts/opinions?

There is no law in CA against hanging something from your windshield. The law is you can't have anything blocking your view of the road. I've been stopped by many types of CA law enforcement a couple dozen times with my V1 hanging from my windshield and no cop has said a word about it.