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From: todd@uop.edu (Dr. Nethack)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: radar countermeasures
Message-ID: <1159@uop.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 88 17:43:48 GMT
References: <4596@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Uop Ethernet Gateway
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Summary: been done

In article <4596@pucc.Princeton.EDU>, MJSCHMEL@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Michael J. Schmelzer) writes:
> Hi there everybody!
> Think about it: A little black box in your (innocuous looking) Oldsmobuick
> that would, upon receiving a threat signal from smokey, rather than just
> sit there and beep like an idiot telling you to slow down even though its
> already too late, would send back a signal to your friendly Highway
> Patrolman on his X or K or whatever that would register a perfectly
> legal double nickels on the Law's satanic little radar gun's readout.

This has already been done, the main problem is that the police guns
tend to read the highest speed (as they measure the crowd, or try to).

If you tell it you are travelling at 55, it will pick out the higher
speed.  The solution has been to inject a higher than obvious speed..

say 110-140, the machine defaults to that, and the fuzz can see you are
not going that fast, so he takes his gun in for repair.

There were some other comments about this earlier on, anyone remember the
rest?