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From: erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Radar Theory
Message-ID: <1049@khijol.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 05:58:42 GMT
References: <All> <this> <Radar> <stuff> <1990Jan12.042446.8799@waikato.ac.nz> <1990Jan15.164544.29488@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp)
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In article <1990Jan15.164544.29488@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1990Jan12.042446.8799@waikato.ac.nz> spt@waikato.ac.nz (Simon Travaglia) writes:
>>What's to stop you syncing in with the Speed Detector and sending 
>>back info to say that you are doing 500mph?
>>... And when you get stopped in your 1963 1.3l ford for pulling
>>540mph, you need simply say "Yeah sure..."
>
>And he'll say "That sure is an interesting-looking gadget on your dashboard
>there..."
>
>	"...You're under arrest.  You have the right to remain silent..."

Having been a police officer, I can testify with some authority that the
cop'll probably look at his radar gun, swear under his breath, and call in to
his dispatcher and complain about his radar.  The dispatcher will probably
tell him (or his sgt.) to go back to the shop to get another one.  You'd
probably not even get stopped, because it'll look like the radar's gone
nutso.

Most cops don't have the technical sophistication to realize that the dumb
thing's *not* a CB or radar detector.
-- 
Ed Carp                 N7EKG/5 (28.3-28.5)     uunet!cs.utexas.edu!khijol!erc
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