Driver's Guide to Police Radar

Ever get stopped for speeding? Most of us have. In almost every case the officer will use radar, a laser or time/distance computer to check your speed. Yet not one driver in 100,000 has the first clue about how that technology is actually used against them.

If you drive, you owe it to yourself to learn the basics about how radar, lasers and time/distance computers are used for traffic enforcement.

Read this book and you ll know exactly how police speed-measuring technology works. (At least you ll know how it is supposed to work.) It's good, but not every ticket is justified. Mistakes do happen, more often than you would think.

World-renowned radar expert Craig Peterson reveals:

• How Police Use Radar and Lasers To Clock Your Speed


• Where Radar and Lasers Are Used


• How radar outwits radar detectors sometimes


• Where to expect radar and laser speed traps


• How to outwit hand-held radar, the common type used by city police


• Lasers: How laser works and how it s used for enforcement


• Time/Distance Computers: Accurate and undetectable


• Radar and laser jammers: Fact vs. fiction


• Aerial speed enforcement: How the Bear in the Air nabs speeders


• Radar Detectors and Electronic Countermeasures


• How to Pick the Right Radar Detector


• Top 10 Secrets to Getting the Most From Your RadarDetector

Craig Peterson is an internationally known expert on speed-measuring technology and the world s most widely-published author on the subject since 1987. He's a certified police radar instructor, a consultant to the police radar / laser industry and an expert on radar detectors as well. Peterson also is president of Radartest.com, called by Automobile magazine The world's leading authority on speed-measuring technology, tactics and countermeasures.

He has worked as a photographer onboard a Windjammer Cruises four-masted schooner, raced cars professionally, served as a reserve police officer, is a respected automotive journalist and holds the second-fastest time ever recorded in a coast-to-coast Cannonball race. He lives in Mesa, Arizona.