Speeding Teenagers

You’ve just gotten your driver’s license and your mother or father has given you the keys to their car. The first thing you do when you can finally be alone in the car is to speed. Teenagers account for a large number of speeding tickets given out each day.

To the new driver the thrill of having the vehicle completely under their own control is exhilarating. Pressing on the accelerator they feel the power of the car in their hands. The last thing on their minds is getting a speeding ticket. Unfortunately many teenagers do get speeding tickets within their first year of driving.

There are steps parents can take to help reduce the risk of their child getting a speeding ticket. The best solution for a teenager for beating a speeding ticket is to avoid it in the first place. If they take the issue of speed seriously they are much less likely to break the law by traveling faster than the posted limit.

Children learn by example and if they are in the back seat of the car while their parent is racing along the road well above the speed limit, they will mimic that behavior once they get the chance. Even children who have taken driver’s training will revert back to the behavior that they’ve seen behind the wheel all of their lives. They translate the actions of their parents on the road to being acceptable for them as well.

Therefore it’s important for parents to lead by example and show their children that speeding isn’t something they can do. To a young driver, the fine is what they will most feel when a police officer hands them a citation for speeding, but that ticket will impact their driving record and their car insurance premium rates as well.

When The Police Catch You Speeding

With the onslaught of undercover and police ghost cars, law enforcement officials are able to blend into any area without being noticed. These cars have no flashing lights to warn motorists to slow down when they see them approaching.

It’s completely reasonable for a speeding motorist to find themselves next to a police officer in an unmarked police car. Depending on how fast you were traveling this can be a terrifying situation to find yourself in.

Panicking or pretending not to notice the police officer are not good choices. If you panic and try and change lanes to distance yourself from the police officer, chances are that he or she will translate that action into your feeling guilty. The same can be said for you not acknowledging their presence as they drive right next to you. This is especially true if you can feel the police officer’s eyes glaring into your car. They want you to turn and look at them, it’s the reason they are concentrating on you.

You were speeding and both of you know it. Whether you find yourself beside or in front of an unmarked police car or a traditional police cruiser there is something you can do. First is to slow down. Speeding once you spot the police officer isn’t a wise decision; most likely it will result in you receiving a speeding ticket.

However looking in the direction of the police officer tells him or her that you acknowledge their presence. You’ve seen them and you recognize that you were speeding, and by slowing down you are also demonstrating that you understand the law. If you do this there’s a good chance that the police officer will take that acknowledgement as your understanding what you were doing wrong and leave it at that.

The Speed Camera Controversy

Many years ago new devices popped onto the market that claimed that they could detect when a police officer was near who was using radar equipment to track speeders. These mechanisms would give off a warning signal if they detected a speed trap ahead. The one major drawback to them was that in most places, they were illegal.

Seen as a means to save enormous costs in tickets and insurance premiums people have been purchasing radar detectors for years. Quality matters though and the price you are willing to pay for a radar detector is something that should strongly be considered.

Many radar detectors are designed just to pick up any radio frequency so often times these types of devices will give off a false alarm. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing because ultimately it does result in the motorist slowing down. However if it’s sensitive to all radio frequencies, the radar detector can give off a false alarm almost constantly which really negates its original purpose of trying to detect a radar gun. In this case the cost of the detector isn’t going to translate into savings on speeding tickets unless the consumer heeds its every warning and slows down completely.

Some of the more expensive radar detectors work on light waves. These are much quieter and much more sensitive, rarely resulting in a false reading. The speeder hears the warning and recognizes it to mean that there is most likely a police officer ahead with a radar gun and they are able to slow down to the posted speed limit saving them money.

The better quality radar detectors are expensive but it’s important to consider the associated costs of a speeding ticket and then weigh the two to determine if the investment in a radar detector is worth it.

How to Avoid Speed Cameras

It seems that in almost every city and town the police find locations that enable them to take cover from speeders. It might be behind a sign or a rather large growth of trees, but there are radar hot-spots in almost every community.

Knowing where these locations are can save the average motorist a lot of trouble and money because it affords them the knowledge they need to avoid getting caught speeding. One valuable resource towards figuring out where the police may be camped with their radar or laser guns is to listen to the radio. Virtually every radio station has traffic updates – several minutes every hour where they detail important points regarding traffic. One of these details is where the police may be tracking speeders.

Listening to this frequently might reveal a pattern, a pattern that the police are following in setting up their speeding stings. To the aware motorist this information is priceless; they can slow down well before the intersection in question and sail through the speed trap without a scratch. It also plays another important role and that is that often the police will return to the same site if they are successful in nabbing several speeders. It might be a stretch of road that people generally speed up on and therefore the police see it as valuable in their fight against speeders.

It’s also important for the motorist to keep their eyes on the road. Often people who are more familiar with a certain area will slow down if they know it’s a place where the police like to camp-out and catch speeders. If you pay attention to how others are driving, this can be a good indication of where the police might be waiting with their speed tracking equipment.

In the event that the police are already pulling another motorist over, that’s a warning sign to you for the next time you drive that road or street. You’ll know that they could be there which means you’ll slow down to below the limit to avoid being the next one they ticket.

How To Beat a Speeding Ticket

There is one sure-fire way to beat a speeding ticket and that’s to avoid getting it in the first place. There are important steps that a person can do everyday to make certain that they don’t see the flashing lights of a police cruiser in their rearview mirror.

Once you are pulled over the ticket is almost a certainty and that’s not something anyone wants to face. Having to pay out money because of a mistake that could have easily been avoided is frustrating. It’s time wasted and dollars spent on something that leaves you with nothing but a feeling of regret.

Taking some time to remember a few basic rules can result in fewer tickets or in many cases no speeding tickets at all. Imagine feeling confident that you won’t receive anymore speeding tickets. Driving along effortlessly without a nagging feeling that a police officer will jump out at you with a radar or laser gun, or come racing up behind you because he clocked your speed at well above the legal limit.

Your car or truck insurance premiums won’t jump dramatically because of your tickets and you’ll never have to worry about points being taken off your driver’s license again.

Of course the fool-proof way to beat a speeding ticket is to never speed, but it happens to almost everyone. Before you know it you can be above the speed limit. This can happen to even the most careful and conscientious of drivers. Keeping an eye on the speedometer and reading the speed limit signs will help you to stay on the right course. If you do find yourself speeding more often than not, give yourself some extra time between point A and B and glance at the speedometer regularly so that if you do find your foot becoming heavy on the accelerator, you can pull it back before it’s too late.

Albanian Souvenirs

I’ve just started a new site about Albanian souvenirs. It promotes everything to do with Albania and Albanians. You can buy Albanian t-shirts and other souvenirs such as caps, calendars, aprons, hoodies, and more.

Albania is a great country but they don’t have much in the way of souvenirs. I’ve travelled around the country a number of times and all I’ve managed to find are poor quality t-shirts, some unusual wooden gifts, and the infamous bunkers. I must admit I love the little bunker pen holders and ashtrays (even though I don’t smoke) although they are kinda tacky.

I’ve created a number of t-shirt designs which can be printed on quality cotton t-shirts and jumpers. The designs mention all of the major Albanian cities listed below:

Tirana
Berat
Saranda
Durres
Vlora
Gjirokastra
Kukes
Tropoja
Fier
Elbasan
Shkodra

It was a lot of fun creating these souvenir gifts and some are proving to be very popular, especially the t-shirts with the Albanian eagle.

Get more information on Albanian souvenirs.

Novelty Gifts

This brief post on novelty gifts is an experiement on how a page ranks depending on links on a page and the test surrounding those links. I’m curious to see if I will get any results with this. So if you are looking for novelty gifts then:

Novelty gifts – Bombshell
Novelty gifts – via Wikipedia
Novelty gifts – McPhee
Novelty gifts – Lastminute
Novelty gifts – Spilsbury
Novelty gifts – via Technorati
Novelty gifts – Reference
Novelty gifts – via Digg
Novelty gifts – via Reddit
Novelty gifts – Techcrunch
Novelty gifts – Buy Organic
Novelty gifts – PrezzyBox

Novelty Gifts For Men

I’m surprised that novelty gifts are so popular. I guess people just love gadgets; men and women. I’ve been checking out a lot of novelty gifts for him lately because I’m thinking of what to buy my man. He’s quite difficult to buy for. He’s very fussy. Although whenever we go out to the shops he always finds things he loves and wants to buy.

The budget doesn’t usually allow us to buy everything we want, whose budget does really, so sometimes I like to surprise him with a little gift. So I’ve been searching on the net to see what’s available. I found a UK site which I like so I’ll probably stick with that one. They deliver pretty much anywhere so that suits me. Now it’s just a matter of deciding what I like, or really, what he’ll like.

Sometimes I wonder if it’s a good idea to surprise him with a gift because he seems to love shopping so much. Maybe I’m denying him by buying something without him, even if it’s for him. Only time will tell I guess.

Not only is my man fussy but he also only ever wants unique or personalised gifts. The kind of thing that no one else has. That’s generally a bit difficult but I have found a few things he might be interested in:

• Swiss Army Knife type thingy.
• Space Pen which writes upside down.
• Telescope or spotter.
• Heart rate monitor (he loves the gym).
• Binary watch. He’d go crazy for that.
• Pen which scans text which you can transfer to the computer.

Ok, that last one is probably of more interest to me. So all these novelty gifts can be bought online which saves me pushing through the crowds.