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From: iles@hplabs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: CHP Radar, True Confessions
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 23:14:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 23:14:00 1985
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Nf-From: hplabs!iles    Mar 22 20:14:00 1985

The pulsing radar sounds interesting.  The only way I know to look for
clocking cars in California is that every government-agency owned
car has a distincive license with a diamond enclosing an "E" on the
left side of the plate (E for exempt?).  If a car seems to be
clocking you, you can pull off or slow down and look for the "E".

In California, it is illegal to time a car between two predetermined
points.  These "speed traps" are too unsportsmanlike, I guess.  

In Germany, it's all automated.  You drive across two sensors, and if
you are going too fast, they take a picture of your license and your
ticket comes in the mail a week or two later.  I don't think I'd
survive too long there.