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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: CHP can't use radar?(Was: What radar detector should I buy?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.075638.18492@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 07:56:38 GMT
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- chrisp@regenmeister.Sun.COM (Chris Prael) writes:
- :
- : How does one tell? Check the roadside the next few times you see signs
- : on a California road saying that aircraft are used to enforce the speed
- : limit. You will find that large white pointer like figures are painted
- : on the side of the road at remarkably regular intervals. I haven't
- : bothered to check the interval, but I'll bet that if someone search one
- : of those planes one would find speed-time tables somewhere.
-
- Nope, you would find a little calculator with about 4 pushbuttons on it.
- Reset, start, stop-1 and stop-2. The two intervals are used as a check
- against the officer jumping the gun on a stop button.
-
- Bill
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