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In article <1992Apr9.151659.10028@aosg.gsf.dec.com> hrt@aosg.gsf.dec.com says:
>       WHERE HAVE ALL THE MA STATE POLICE BEEN FOR THE LAST 2 MONTHS ?

(out using Laser "radar").

LIDAR is a gun-like unit, more like a rifle than the pistol-type radar guns.
This doesn't sound anything like the unit you reference.

Is this anything like the (false) rumor that the CT cops had photo radar a
couple of years back?

Those LIDAR guns are $4K each. I'm surprised a state so low on cash like ours
can spend money like that, when the old units do just fine. Something like
this would allegedly have garnered some sort of press coverage, even though
the state is far more interested in collecting bucks than public safety.

See "Car and Driver", April '92 issue, on why not only are these units
not unbeatable, but highly unreliable as well. They list a lot of places 
where they are to be delivered to, and no places in NE are on the list.
They also tell you how to avoid these units.

Tickets made by these units have been tossed out of court in one area (I
forget exactly where, but I believe somewhere in MI) at a high rate.

Cinncinatti Microwave is coming out with an after the fact detetor soon
that will aid motorists in mid- to high- traffic areas.

I wish you could (would) identify your source.

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