Path: utzoo!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!dgibbs
From: dgibbs@bnr-fos.UUCP (David Gibbs)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (was Highway Driving Rules)
Keywords: speed limits
Message-ID: <489@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 16:01:59 GMT
References: <852@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu> <9556@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <907@mks.UUCP> <3215@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: dgibbs@bnr-fos.UUCP (David Gibbs)
Distribution: ont
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In article <3215@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:

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>Seems to me it would make sense to put a sensor up under the hood, not on
>the dash.  They look around your passenger compartment, but I have never
>had a cop check under the hood.
>-- 
>Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

The problem with putting the radar detector under the hood, is that 
the radar detector is then sitting surrounded by metal, which radio
waves tend to bounce off.  (This is how the cop detects your car.)
  The reason the detectors are commonly put on the dash, is this
leaves the detector surrounded by glass, rather than metal, so the
radio waves can actually get to the detector in order to be detected.
  Also, it is kind of hard to hear the warning if the detector is
under the hood of the car, unless the warning is awful loud, in which
case someone might get suspiscious.  
 
(I guess pocket might work ok.)

-David
(dgibbs@bnr-fos.UUCP)