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Article #6221Laser speed gun detectors?
From: Stirling Hamersley
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 04:43
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 04:43
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The local police have taken to using speed guns that use a laser to determine car speed to catch those with the ye olde radar detectors. Must have been easier than outlawing radar detectors as they have done in NSW. Someone told me there are already laser detectors around. Is this true and how do they work? I imagine the would not be very effective as the laser beam used to detect the speed is very directional and should only need to be on for a fraction of a second, once the car has been sighted. Radar detectors depend on detecting when a car ahead of your car is being gunned. I can't see you detecting the laser until it is too late. "Speed limits are for Volvo drivers" - Hamersley.
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!mullet!stirling From: stirling@mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au (Stirling Hamersley) Subject: Laser speed gun detectors? Message-ID: <1992Aug14.044343.24045@mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au> Organization: University Computer Club --- Perth, Western Australia Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 04:43:43 GMT Lines: 15