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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: rec.autos,sci.electronics,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (Ka band) ...
Keywords: radar, cops, Ka, X, K
Message-ID: <343@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 89 21:07:38 GMT
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In article <4427@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger) writes:
> In article <7944@netnews.upenn.edu> depolo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Jeff DePolo) writes:
> :In article <603@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.UUCP writes:
> :>It's the Ka-band.  I've heard they've installed robot type radar units that
> :>will clock your car using the Ka Band radar, and then photograph the

> They have been in use in Pasadena for more than 6 months, and aside
> from some procedural problems which got most of the very first tickets
> thrown out, the courts have accepted them.  Pasadena has just
> installed photo units at an interesction that monitors red light
> runners and of course takes their picture.

seems like it would be easy to avoid paying a remote ticket such as this.
the driver is responsable for the speeding violation, not the owner of the
car, right?

how can they prove it was you who was driving? innocent unless PROVEN guilty.
I assume they just photograph the back of the car, just to get the license,
then mail the owner of the car the speeding ticket. Also, doesn't the 
officer who gave you the ticket, have to apear in court to validate the 
'crime'? since there was no officer.....

also I was under the impression that you had to sign the ticket when the 
cop pulled you over? 

I am sure a good lawyer could think of a dozen ways to get the case thrown
out.

I just think that getting an automated radar machine to give out tickets is
wrong. Although driving is a privelage, not a right, aren't we still allowed
our rights as a citizen? next thing you know they will have the cars themselves
record how fast they are going and either:

a> limit the speed to the current speed limits (thru bar codes on the road to
read in the speed limit, I saw this on tv. they have it in Australia as an
experiment)

b> the car will call the cops and turn you in. then you will get a ticket
in the mail.
 

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