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From: consult@osiris.UUCP (Unix Consultation Mailbox )
Newsgroups: rec.autos,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Correct Terminology (was Re: Radar Detectors (Ka band) ...)
Keywords: radar, laser, lidar?
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Date: 21 Feb 89 16:35:00 GMT
References: <603@icus.islp.ny.us> <7944@netnews.upenn.edu> <1868@tank.uchicago.edu> <142@aucis.UUCP> <1895@tank.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1895@tank.uchicago.edu> kean@tank.uchicago.edu (Keane Arase) writes:
>The laser beam will spread 3.5 feet in 1000 ft...

That's wonderful news for all us motorcyclists.  All this fine new
technology and it'll be as fundamentally unreliable (assuming ignorance
of the principles involved, which seems a safe assumption) as existing
radar equipment.

>BTW, they aim the device with a telescopic scope.  The same type used
>on hunting rifles.

So now they not only have to calibrate the device, but scope it in too?
Sure.

(btw, motorcycles ain't got no front plates!  :-)

                                                                 Phil Kos
                                                      Information Systems
...!uunet!pyrdc!osiris!phil                    The Johns Hopkins Hospital
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