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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
Newsgroups: rec.autos,sci.electronics,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (Ka band) ...
Keywords: radar, cops, Ka, X, K
Message-ID: <4445@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 17 Feb 89 20:06:37 GMT
References: <603@icus.islp.ny.us> <7944@netnews.upenn.edu> <4427@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <4182da6e.16321@apollo.COM>
Reply-To: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <4182da6e.16321@apollo.COM> ron_b@apollo.COM (Ronald Buttiglieri) writes:
: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
:>:							--- 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

No, the reason the first tickets were thrown out is that the vehicle
the photo radar was mounted in was not painted in police colors as a
CA Vehicle Code law requires.

Lee

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