Path: utzoo!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-rsc!mark
From: mark@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark MacLean)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (was Highway Driving Rules)
Keywords: speed limits
Message-ID: <858@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 20:10:31 GMT
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Reply-To: mark@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark MacLean)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <296@moegate.UUCP> soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) writes:
>I've said it before but I'll say it again, with the current level of technology
>used by the OPP and most municipal forces these boxes are virtually useless and
>real easy to for the police to detect. In addition to the moral implications 
>you'd be pretty stupid to shell out good money on one.

The OPP I see around Ottawa just have the radar that they hang out of the window
of the car, and it does not look like they have the "speed-guns" here.

Given that a small percentage of drivers in Ontario have detectors, I expect that
the OPP does not perceive a need to upgrade their equipment.

I have also talked to police who are using radar to look for speeders and they had
the equipment set to trigger only if the car was going >20 or >30 km/h over the speed
limit.  This is an admission by them that the posted speed limit is unreasonable.
If they truely beleived in it, then they would enforce it exactly.