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- From: chuck@drutx.ATT.COM (LucianoC)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Laser speed gun detectors?
- Message-ID: <19398@drutx.ATT.COM>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 19:22:50 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.044343.24045@mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au> <1992Aug16.173120.10715@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Reply-To: chuck@drutx.ATT.COM (LucianoC)
- Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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- In article <1992Aug16.173120.10715@cis.ohio-state.edu> rubin@chocktaw.cis.ohio-state.edu (Daniel Rubin) writes:
- >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 interviewed with a company in Englewood, Colorado that makes these puppys
- and after the interview I asked the interviewer if we could take one outside
- and play with it. We did, and I can tell you that it has a deadly accurate
- sight on it and you could easily target an oncoming car at up to 1/2 mile.
- The readout is virtually instantaneous.
-
- I am skeptical about the usefulness of the detectors as they would only work
- if someone else was clocked while you and he were both in sight of the cop.
-
- Using the $99 rationale for assuming the laser detector may not be correct,
- it may simply be that both cost about the same to manufacture, but who'd pay
- $299 for a detector that will almost never save you.
-
- Chuck Luciano
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