COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ What percentile are speed limits established? Answer: '85th
percentile.
◉ What is "Voluntary Compliance?" Answer: "The willful or deliberate
obedience to any law without direct police intervention"
◉ Police Officers and the Speed Limits? (41-6a-212) Answer: An
operator of an authorized emergency vehicle may exceed the maximum
speed limit when engaged in normal patrolling activities with the
purpose of identifying and apprehending violators.
◉ What is "Pacing?" Answer: Following the violators to determine their
speed.
◉ What is a potential "Pacing" problem? Answer: The target vehicle
may see the officer and slow down before an appropriate tracking
history is established.
, ◉ What are some problems with time/distance? Answer: -Accuracy of
measured distance.
-Accuracy of stopwatch or measured time.
-Human error.
◉ What dose "R.A.D.A.R." stand for? Answer: RAdio Detection And
Ranging.
◉ What does Continuous Wave Radar (Police Radar) detect? Answer:
Detects speed and relative motion.
◉ Who was one of the main pioneers of Radar? Answer: Christian
Johann Doppler
◉ Traffic Radar utilizes Doppler Principal or Doppler Shift to measure
what? Answer: Speed.
◉ Traffic Radar utilizes Doppler Principal or Doppler Shift to measure
speed and is defined as: Answer: The difference between the transmitted
and received frequency.
◉ A vehicle moving away from the transmitter will be stretched
resulting in what kind of a return? Answer: A vehicle moving away from
the transmitter will be stretched resulting in a return frequency lower
than the transmitted frequency.