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Originally Posted by B R
"...some think a night time limit is fine because they don't like to drive at night. are you equipped with a radar overlapping gps screen? i can see the difference between a buoy and where the gps thinks the buoy should be. i can see that canoe without lights because i have radar. when i didn't have radar, i spent $2,000 on military type night vision goggles to help me see at night. has anyone else gone through these efforts to be a safe driver at night? i have.
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I'll have to guess: Is your boat what they call an "Express Cruiser"?
I received three thoughts on this post.
One is, a case of
"Get Home-itis", the "syndrome" that kills so many pilots.
Two: The last reference I saw on the use of night vision goggles was in the "One Lap of America", so drivers could speed at their maximum velocity -- often in excess of 150MPH, (a speed
now seen in performance boats) -- on
our Interstates. I've checked night vision googles out, but any repeated motion tended to make one nauseous. Bad idea.
The third is a recollection of a fellow race car driver who told me "Cops can't use radar in the rain".
(It's
true: Radar returns very poor signals in the rain, and is a good defense in court. He's a lawyer -- or
was. During the two semesters we were college roommates, he must have received a dozen moving traffic violations -- citations -- and beat every one. He moved from a Psychology major to a law degree).
Now, he is also an excellent driver so as a passenger on the way to America's race courses, I could nap as we traveled at 90MPH -- in the rain.
At night,
I was handed the reins, because my night vision was demonstrably far better.
Even with the "unhindered sightline" of the Interstates, I never drove at 90MPH -- in the rain -- at night. It's just stupid.
BTW I: My buddy is presently in Federal lockup -- something about Ginnie Maes and defrauding the government of millions. While appealing the conviction, he lost his license to practice law but became a "law
clerk" -- still making 6-figures annually. Go figure.
BTW II: Put "GPS" and "crutch" into Google. Enlightening references there.
BTW III: My "iespell" spell-checker just suggested I change "90MPH" to "20MPH!"
ROFL!
Boy, is
it smart!