Laser gun speed reading
03-16-2008, 03:30 AM
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Thanks for sharing. Kinda makes radar/laser detectors worthless doesn't it? 
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Originally Posted by KnIgHtCoM' post='545585' date='Mar 16 2008, 07:30 AM
Kinda makes radar/laser detectors worthless doesn't it?
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it is useless if you are the first to be targetted. I think, you can definately receive early warning alarms with your current detectors however some manual interpretation of the alarm needs to be done by driver since the laser is only a few micro or milliseconds in cycletime. Lets just pray our currect detectors can be upgraded to support this new feature.... 
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Mr. Blinder, say hello to Mr. Laser Gun. Laser Gun, say hello to Mr Blinder. What's that? You can't see Mr. Blinder??? Well isn't that just the damn point! 
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Originally Posted by TexaZ3' post='546053' date='Mar 16 2008, 08:02 PM
Take your front license plate off, and problem solved.
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Originally Posted by ro11dice' post='546118' date='Mar 16 2008, 11:44 PM
huh? A laser could still take a reading off of your car unless you are driving a B2 stealth bomber.
03-17-2008, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by TexaZ3' post='546053' date='Mar 17 2008, 05:02 AM
Take your front license plate off, and problem solved.
It happened to me twice (I have a vinyl adhesive number plate) Looks like normal licence plate but it's a sticker.
The cops were trying to target on me with laser gun, from 500m distance, until the time I passed them. There were no traffic on the road, so it was clear that they were pointing on me, but they had no luck...
I was driving with about 2X the speed limit. I managed to slow down a little, but it was too late... so, I thought that they'll sign on me to stop, but they didn't, they were just keep trying, until I passed them ...with the correct speed of course.
They need to point on a flat metal surface to get a result.
Does anyone here with no licence plate on the front bumber, has ever been ticketed by a laser gun pointing from the front?