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Radar Detector?
Anyone use a radar detector while driving in Europe, do they work there and are these illegal?
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Quote: | My experience is no longer true??? What?? | Yup, I was as surprized as you are. Imagine, until early 2004, every time I would go back to france (home for me), I would see everyone driving like (what everyone outside of France and Italy would call) maniacs. And I would do the same thing, hey, been raised and taught to drive that way!
A year ago, I go back for a quick vacation, and I find:
- people actualy driving the speed limit (130km/h) on every highway, including around Paris.
- At the first toll, cops were pulling people over massively, including foreigners.
- Driving along a nice 2 lane twisty road along the Loire river, I encounter a cop with a laser gun
And it goes on and on. To the point now people are driving so slow that they do not even pay attention to anything (a little bit like around here).
Now, sure you stand by your story, but a short drive from the Italian border to Nice is not very representative. This area of france is one of the worse for its driving manners and probably one of the regions that will resist the pressure from the government to crack down on speeding. But for everyone going in france right now, be careful, french highways are no longer uncontrolled the way they have been for years. And that is probably unfortunate for us.
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Quote: Yup, I was as surprized as you are. Imagine, until early 2004, every time I would go back to france (home for me), I would see everyone driving like (what everyone outside of France and Italy would call) maniacs. And I would do the same thing, hey, been raised and taught to drive that way!
A year ago, I go back for a quick vacation, and I find:
- people actualy driving the speed limit (130km/h) on every highway, including around Paris.
- At the first toll, cops were pulling people over massively, including foreigners. | In Summer 2004 holidaying Brits were warned not to speed in France, as the French police were cracking down on British motorists having fun on their vast, empty toll motorways - and even impounding cars. This became sufficiently vindictive that the French tourist agency, realising that these days the only people with lots of money in France are visiting Brits (who will just head straight home if their holiday is ruined thus), told the police to widen their net to include speeding locals so as not to be seen to be targeting holidaymakers with lots of cash (as opposed to local whose worldly goods extend to a never-been-serviced Peugeot 106 1.1 and a half-smoked package of Goalies). We expected nothing less in the centenary year of the Entente Cordiale  .
As it is, days of cruising at 160km/h+ in France are now over, at least for a while, and visitors are soberly advised to stick to the limit more than ever.
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