A Speeder's Guide to Avoiding Tickets

The author suggests a lot of very good ideas on how to deal not only with police officers and with the court but everything you need to know. Including things as important as being polite/considerate to the police officer. There are good suggestions and options in which you can take to limit the negative and focus on the positive.

This book is excrutiatingly poorly written, with painfully unfunny sarcasm as well as a misplaced or missing comma in every other sentence. While this distracts from the advice the author gives, the usefullness of it outweighs the obnoxious writing. Anyone who speeds, which is basically everyone, would do well to read this book.

Very poorly written book with very poor advice. Things like -- show some clevage, cry a lot, etc.

This book, somewhat wordy, was written in 1990. There have been advances in technology in the past 13 years. There's no mention in his book on LASER devices or Ka band radar. Easy reading, yet not current. Look for another book.

I don't speed. I drive on cruise control at 65mph over Bay Area interstates and lower my speed as necessary for slower zones. I stay out of fast lanes, but yet I read this book anyway.

Driving at speed limit is boring to death. And that is why people speed. Trust me, I am bored beyond belief while I am cruising along at whatever the speed limit is. To entertain myself, I look for cops! I then estimate which speeder might get pulled over first. I chose a relatively slow (0-60 in 11 sec) car just for that reason so I wouldn't be overly tempted to drive like I would at my favorite race track. Rest assured, however, that I take full advantage of the fact that there is no law limiting how fast I can hit the speed limit every time I get a chance to. Just ask my sorry passengers. :-)

My pet peeve is people slowing down to look at accidents and people not using their turn signals. Please, just don't do it and speed up at first available instance. But I digress from the subject at hand. I found this book both enlightening and entertaining. I happen to hang out with people who are not as compliant with the law. While they were getting pulled over, I told them a few tips from the book and there were no tickets issued in six out of eight cases. These tips saved my friends well over $1000 combined. That is not bad compared to the price of the book, isn't it?

In short, if you drive on freeways, get this book. It will teach you to be more attentive, safer driver, what to do if you are busted, how to avoid getting the officer pissed and preoccupied with taking notes about you, and ultimately how to be a safer driver. It is true that some of the technology described is no longer state of the art, but not too many police agencies are equipped with state of the art equipment. Unfortunately, CHP is equipped nicely, so supplement your knowledge from this book with very current information about their crown vics and the associated equipment. I truly very highly recommend the book.

P.S. I got a speeding ticket once. I was a teenager and did everything wrong. The attitude cost me $170. I learned my lesson and remember every word said by that officer. If you are a teen, you should read the book to avoid this trouble or to help out your friends. Members of opposite sex would be impressed :-). It would be amusing to behave like an off-duty cop, but it could save you or your friends a lot of cash in astronomical insurance rate increases and traffic court fines.