Laser jammers

[smurfslayer]

I’ve had Geico for two years now and they have never once called when it’s time to renew.

@Ruger is correct, i can confirm that Geico at least has done this in the past. However, there are more and different reasons that you should not use Geico for your insurance, no matter how inexpensive it is, or how long you’ve been a happy customer or how many wrecks of yours they’ve made right.

A relative of mine, insured by geico, was rear ended by another driver; their whole family insured by geico. It was a 40MPH / no brakes impact, with a trip to the hospital, back and neck injury. cops came, other driver fled, but samaritans provided a description of driver, car, who fled home and was charged with the collision and convicted. Geico refused to pay the insurance claims. Through a lawyer, they were trying to wait out the victim; allowing medical bills to accumulate enough to damage their credit. after about 4 months, they offered something like $3000. that was less than a 1/3 the damage to the car, - mind you, my relative had a full coverage policy, no gaps. They got a court date and one day before trial, Geico offered to cover medical bills and lawyer bills in addition to covering the car. They were countered to cover more of the damage, plus some kind of letter indicating their obligation to have made these payments and that they didn’t do it in the required, timely manner. They didn’t go any further than that, but it did help with their credit.

Geico has a well earned reputation for being a “paper only” insurance carrier, I’ve known 2 more people who had them; 1st was cancelled after an at fault collision, 2nd cancelled after a speeding ticket - and not some major league, triple digit ticket, an interstate ticket 69 or 70 in a 55 IIRC.

just make sure that if you run some sort of jammer you don’t run afoul of some coverage exclusion.

 

[ChevTillNow]

And if I see it be prepared to pay the fine. There are some tthat we can detect.

This is America... If you can point something at me to obtain another stupid tax... I can do what I can legally do, to prevent you from seeing anything...

OP, ALP is the only one worth even thinking about if you're serious.

But I would suggest you instead take your truck out to the desert and drive it fast... and smile and wave at the sneaky motorcycle police who are hiding in the city as you cruise by them slower than the speed limit...

PS any attorney worth his salt can beat any reasonable ticket for about 200 bucks.

 

[tmd11111]

@Ruger is correct, i can confirm that Geico at least has done this in the past. However, there are more and different reasons that you should not use Geico for your insurance, no matter how inexpensive it is, or how long you’ve been a happy customer or how many wrecks of yours they’ve made right.

A relative of mine, insured by geico, was rear ended by another driver; their whole family insured by geico. It was a 40MPH / no brakes impact, with a trip to the hospital, back and neck injury. cops came, other driver fled, but samaritans provided a description of driver, car, who fled home and was charged with the collision and convicted. Geico refused to pay the insurance claims. Through a lawyer, they were trying to wait out the victim; allowing medical bills to accumulate enough to damage their credit. after about 4 months, they offered something like $3000. that was less than a 1/3 the damage to the car, - mind you, my relative had a full coverage policy, no gaps. They got a court date and one day before trial, Geico offered to cover medical bills and lawyer bills in addition to covering the car. They were countered to cover more of the damage, plus some kind of letter indicating their obligation to have made these payments and that they didn’t do it in the required, timely manner. They didn’t go any further than that, but it did help with their credit.

Geico has a well earned reputation for being a “paper only” insurance carrier, I’ve known 2 more people who had them; 1st was cancelled after an at fault collision, 2nd cancelled after a speeding ticket - and not some major league, triple digit ticket, an interstate ticket 69 or 70 in a 55 IIRC.

just make sure that if you run some sort of jammer you don’t run afoul of some coverage exclusion.

My experience with them has been completely opposite. About 2 years ago I switched over to them. Not 2 weeks later we had a hail storm and between my wife’s mustang and my Super Duty it was over $12k in damage. Had it settled in a few days. Rates never went up either. In fact when I bought my Raptor last year it was only $20 more to cover then the Super Duty.

 

[bo1966]

I've beaten them in 3 states.

But like I said before, I stopped doing road rallies. ( stopped early last year, so if detection has improved that much in the past 18 months, my experience is no longer how things can go.) not many people are tech savvy enough to understand what it would take to prove the infraction without a shadow of a doubt. I educated my lawyer on it based on my level of technical expertise. He found validity in the line of logic and leveraged it in having tickets dismissed.

oh, and I wanted to add that if you are driving in a state where they take laser from overpasses, none of this tech will do a damn thing. the same thing goes for laser being used from the air.

Hope to see you in my state

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This is America... If you can point something at me to obtain another stupid tax... I can do what I can legally do, to prevent you from seeing anything...

OP, ALP is the only one worth even thinking about if you're serious.

But I would suggest you instead take your truck out to the desert and drive it fast... and smile and wave at the sneaky motorcycle police who are hiding in the city as you cruise by them slower than the speed limit...

PS any attorney worth his salt can beat any reasonable ticket for about 200 bucks.

If what you're doing in your state is legal. God bless you. If what you're doing in my state is not legal, I'll do my job. You call it a " stupid tax". I guess you're right. Do the posted speed limit or at least close to it and I don't have to give stupid people an extra tax

 

[Ruger]

PS any attorney worth his salt can beat any reasonable ticket for about 200 bucks.

Ah, but the key is to actually find an attorney worth his salt. Good luck with that. Oh, and he won't commit to a fixed price for his services, so the cost of fighting the ticket may be more than the ticket itself and you won't know that until it's all said and done.

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My experience with them has been completely opposite. About 2 years ago I switched over to them. Not 2 weeks later we had a hail storm and between my wife’s mustang and my Super Duty it was over $12k in damage. Had it settled in a few days. Rates never went up either. In fact when I bought my Raptor last year it was only $20 more to cover then the Super Duty.

Your hail damage story probably involved a lot of other people in the same area who also suffered damage to their autos, the roofs of their homes, etc. Is so, then it involved a lot of claims to a lot of different insurance companies, and that makes it quite a bit different from an individual claim. It may in fact be newsworthy enough to be covered by the local press, and that possibility can make insurance companies behave all civic minded.

 

[lawdog]

@Ruger is correct, i can confirm that Geico at least has done this in the past. However, there are more and different reasons that you should not use Geico for your insurance, no matter how inexpensive it is, or how long you’ve been a happy customer or how many wrecks of yours they’ve made right.

A relative of mine, insured by geico, was rear ended by another driver; their whole family insured by geico. It was a 40MPH / no brakes impact, with a trip to the hospital, back and neck injury. cops came, other driver fled, but samaritans provided a description of driver, car, who fled home and was charged with the collision and convicted. Geico refused to pay the insurance claims. Through a lawyer, they were trying to wait out the victim; allowing medical bills to accumulate enough to damage their credit. after about 4 months, they offered something like $3000. that was less than a 1/3 the damage to the car, - mind you, my relative had a full coverage policy, no gaps. They got a court date and one day before trial, Geico offered to cover medical bills and lawyer bills in addition to covering the car. They were countered to cover more of the damage, plus some kind of letter indicating their obligation to have made these payments and that they didn’t do it in the required, timely manner. They didn’t go any further than that, but it did help with their credit.

Geico has a well earned reputation for being a “paper only” insurance carrier, I’ve known 2 more people who had them; 1st was cancelled after an at fault collision, 2nd cancelled after a speeding ticket - and not some major league, triple digit ticket, an interstate ticket 69 or 70 in a 55 IIRC.

just make sure that if you run some sort of jammer you don’t run afoul of some coverage exclusion.

I will tell you as an attorney that they are one of the worst to deal with regarding injury claims, at least in my state. They also actively used to "donate" lidar/radar guns to police departments, so they are even less your friend than most other insurance companies.

 

[smurfslayer]

they’re still donating directly? The last I’d heard of it they were donating to “industry and professional groups” who in turn would buy equipment for certain departments, or would assist in getting federal grant money.

 

[OPT PRIME]

Hope to see you in my state

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If what you're doing in your state is legal. God bless you. If what you're doing in my state is not legal, I'll do my job. You call it a " stupid tax". I guess you're right. Do the posted speed limit or at least close to it and I don't have to give stupid people an extra tax

Have you ever considered law enforcement for a career? It’s quite a bit more exciting than pulling cars over. To each their own.


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[lawdog]

they’re still donating directly? The last I’d heard of it they were donating to “industry and professional groups” who in turn would buy equipment for certain departments, or would assist in getting federal grant money.

I know they donated some directly in Maryland years ago, and most ins cos give to those other groups to fund indirectly. I'm pretty sure GEICO also helped fund the development of the first traffic LIDAR gun.

 

[TXRaptor]

Have you ever considered law enforcement for a career? It’s quite a bit more exciting than pulling cars over. To each their own.

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Not sure if you are joking, but he pretty much told us he IS in law enforcement in a previous post...