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>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.
>

Actually, yes there is a laser detector available and the device is
simpler and cheeper than a radar detector!  Cincinnati Microwave sells
one for only $99 and it works very well ( from what I have heard I do
not own one ).  I believe the laser beam is used as more of a scanning
beam than a single beam so it is fairly detectable.  It would be very 
hard for a police officer to point a single laser beam at a car moving at
a high rate of speed.  I would expect that also since the light within a
laser beam is coherent it would be very easy to determine it is present
even when it has bounced off of things like the automosphere...

							- Dan

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