Can you tell the speed of a car while you are standing in your house?also apply this to trailer parks please
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ANSWERS: 6
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from the answer page you said you cannot tell the speed and this was in a mobile home park that had an association where someone got a ticket from an individual who was not a policeman
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Yes if you can mark a start and end point on the road for the travel distance of the vehicle and have a stopwatch. Sixty mph is 88 feet per second. So if you can mark 88 feet on the road way and time a vehicle at 2 seconds it is traveling 30 mph, 3 seconds is 20 mph, etc. If you must mark a shorter distance try 44 feet. 1 second over that distance is therefore 120 mph. 2 seconds is 60 mph. If this is not feasible, get a radar gun from the next police surplus auction.
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It takes experience to be able to judge the speed of a possible speeding automobile. In law enforcement for 41 years. in that time, i have mastered the speed of a moving vehicle by the sound the tires make on the pavement. Yes, it can be accomplished after years of experience. without the experience, i would not rely on my hearing to judge a vehicle's speed, without some other form of verification, like radar.
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I wasn't aware trailer parks had speed.
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I agree with the top answer, to a degree. A judge and jury would have a hard time understanding your method to evaluate the speed of an automobile. A question of personal qualifications would also play a major part in proving your method of speed calculations.
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I tried to figure the speed. the mph is 10 mph, try it if you leave your foot off the pedal the speed of a running vehicle is 10 mph on the dot, but cannot be figured outside the vehicle of anyone standing of hearing the tires, inflation of tires and road conditions give off different sounds. in the event someone thinks they can really say you are going 11 or 12 or even 15 mph I'd say hurrah that person is good really good or just does not have anything better to do.
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