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From: ron_b@apollo.COM (Ronald Buttiglieri)
Newsgroups: rec.autos,sci.electronics,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (Ka band) ...
Keywords: radar, cops, Ka, X, K
Message-ID: <4182da6e.16321@apollo.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 89 17:38:00 GMT
References: <603@icus.islp.ny.us> <7944@netnews.upenn.edu> <4427@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: ron_b@apollo.COM (Ronald Buttiglieri)
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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:
>:>Well .. I've been checking around for a radar detector, and one saleswoman
>:>mentioned to me something they are supposibly testing in NY State and Texas.
>:>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
>:							--- Jeff
>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

The major issue throwing these tickets out of court is that unless
the photos are clear enough to prove the driver of the vehicle (at that
time) was in fact the owner of said vehicle, effectively, the owner
is being held responsible for the driving habits of anyone using his/her
car.                                                     

Ron