Radar Operator Exam Questions and
Verified Answers
Proper Use - ✔✔Improves effectiveness of speed enforcement.
Basic goal of police work - ✔✔Protect lives and property.
Major contributor to MVCs - ✔✔Excessive speed.
High speed crash. - ✔✔More likely to cause death or serious injury than a low speed crash.
Very effective method of establishing the speed of a vehicle. - ✔✔Radar
Goal of radar training. - ✔✔Improve effectiveness of speed measurement through proper and
efficient use of radar speed measuring instruments.
To save fuel. - ✔✔The original motive for imposing the 55 mph national speed limit in 1974.
By reducing the speed limit to 55 mph, - ✔✔It was also found to have reduced injuries and
saved lives.
Human error. - ✔✔The target of almost all successful challenges in radar cases.
Only as good as the operator. - ✔✔Radar
Only a tool. - ✔✔Radar
, 3/4 of a second. - ✔✔The average reaction time, but could be longer.
Amount of time certificates are good for? - ✔✔Three years
One of the best know challenges to Radar. - ✔✔Dade County, Fl. Early 1979
Brazier vs city of Philadelphia (1906) - ✔✔Speeding over 7 mph and driving such vehicles
through the streets at that speed was considered to be driving in a reckless disregard of the
rights of others. A
Increased speeds affect the three elements of driving; - ✔✔1 The Operator
2 The Vehicle
3 The Road Surface
The braking distance at 40 mph is not twice the distance required at 20 mph, but? - ✔✔4 times.
The braking distance at 80 mph would not be 4 times the distance required at 20 mph but more
than? - ✔✔16 times.
1st traffic law. - ✔✔Passed on June 12, 1652, by New Amsterdam, (now New York) prohibits
the riding of a horse at a gallop, within city limits.
1st automobile speed regulation. - ✔✔Limited automobile speeds to 12 mph in the country and
8 mph within city limits. Enacted in Hartford, Connecticut in 1901.
Basic Speed Law - ✔✔No person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is
reasonable or prudent under the existing conditions.
Verified Answers
Proper Use - ✔✔Improves effectiveness of speed enforcement.
Basic goal of police work - ✔✔Protect lives and property.
Major contributor to MVCs - ✔✔Excessive speed.
High speed crash. - ✔✔More likely to cause death or serious injury than a low speed crash.
Very effective method of establishing the speed of a vehicle. - ✔✔Radar
Goal of radar training. - ✔✔Improve effectiveness of speed measurement through proper and
efficient use of radar speed measuring instruments.
To save fuel. - ✔✔The original motive for imposing the 55 mph national speed limit in 1974.
By reducing the speed limit to 55 mph, - ✔✔It was also found to have reduced injuries and
saved lives.
Human error. - ✔✔The target of almost all successful challenges in radar cases.
Only as good as the operator. - ✔✔Radar
Only a tool. - ✔✔Radar
, 3/4 of a second. - ✔✔The average reaction time, but could be longer.
Amount of time certificates are good for? - ✔✔Three years
One of the best know challenges to Radar. - ✔✔Dade County, Fl. Early 1979
Brazier vs city of Philadelphia (1906) - ✔✔Speeding over 7 mph and driving such vehicles
through the streets at that speed was considered to be driving in a reckless disregard of the
rights of others. A
Increased speeds affect the three elements of driving; - ✔✔1 The Operator
2 The Vehicle
3 The Road Surface
The braking distance at 40 mph is not twice the distance required at 20 mph, but? - ✔✔4 times.
The braking distance at 80 mph would not be 4 times the distance required at 20 mph but more
than? - ✔✔16 times.
1st traffic law. - ✔✔Passed on June 12, 1652, by New Amsterdam, (now New York) prohibits
the riding of a horse at a gallop, within city limits.
1st automobile speed regulation. - ✔✔Limited automobile speeds to 12 mph in the country and
8 mph within city limits. Enacted in Hartford, Connecticut in 1901.
Basic Speed Law - ✔✔No person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is
reasonable or prudent under the existing conditions.
