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1206 messages, Last post on Dec 28, 2008 at 5:16 PM
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In Atlanta, before the 96 Olympics, they installed a traffic monitoring system to tell which roads were congested. The system uses radar to determine average traffic speed. It also has video cameras that they can switch to to look at the traffic flow. No, you can turn on your TV in the morning, and see how busy the traffic is before you depart for work. |
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| hey everyone. ok, i just got my first ticket yesterday and obviously i'm not too happy about it. luckily i can go to traffic school to get the points off my record so my insurance doesn't go up. well, anyway, i don't want this to happen again so i've decided to go ahead and get a radar detector. i know that the v1 is probably the best detector on the market, but to be honest i just don't have 400 bucks to spend. i was just curious as to what u guys would consider to be the #2 detector on the market and the price for it. thanks a lot | |
| I was wondering where and how much a radar jammer would cost or is it standard with some radar detectors? | |
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Don't bother. Radar jammers are either 1) useless, 2) illegal or 3) both. If you mean the VG-2 protection, that is pretty much standard with all modern detectors. That won't block radar, but it will keep them from picking up on the fact that you have a detector. |
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| Radar jammers are illegal, but they do work. I don't mean ANYTHING from "Rocky Mountain Radar" or ANYTHING advertised as a "passive jammer." These things DO NOT work, period, point blank, end of story. Do not buy a passive jammer under any circumstances. However, active jammers do work, but they aren't that available and none to my knowledge are tuned to the more modern radar frequencies. The illegality is pretty trivial... | |
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ther is this new bel 990 (299$) that claim to be programmable for different frequencies, so usable internationally... anyone know something more about it?! |
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check this site: http://www.sodi.com/et_autov.htm this sweet tool is the most common device used by law enforcement in europe....most of the time linked to a camera... do you know if there is anything against it, even if the producer claims it's undetectability? I suppose you would need some sort of bouncing back active-radar.... I'm moving soon to Italy and I'm afraid my lame uniden won't be much of an help against those sneaky laser beams.... |
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| We just had a local news story on laser jammers. Apparently, a store here is back-ordered on them even though they cost $500 CND. They reported: yes, they do work but are detectible by police. The police demonstrated the error signal they got on their guns that says some kind of jammer is present and they stop the car. Here is where the controversy is: laser jammers emit light, which is not illegal, but it sure pisses off the cops. In some cities they confiscate the devices but not in others, so it depends on where you are caught. The RCMP weren't sure they were allowed to take them. Regardless, the cops charge you with obstructing a police officer or something like that. | |
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