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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: Laser Pulse Speed Enforcing
Message-ID: <861@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 11:08:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 11:08:59 1986
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Summary: You should "fear"...

In article <442@utastro.UUCP>, fbr@utastro.UUCP (Frank Ray) writes:
> Never fear.  If the fuzz are beaming electromagnetic energy at
> you, it can be detected.  Different wavelength, perhaps, different
> durations, but there will be a market, then, for IR speed trap
> detectors.  It's still line of sight, but with fewer ways to
> detect with echos.

	How is a detector going to sense a few millimeter diameter spot of IR
energy aimed at a random area on a car?  Like a bumper, door, grille, etc.?

> Probably the big question will be whether
> an IR detector for this purpose will be regulated (and presumably
> legal under federal interpretation) by the FCC.

	No way will there be FCC regulation.  OSHA, perhaps, just to certify
that the energy level is harmless.

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