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Just simply have a fake radar inside your vehicle with aerials pointed both front and back directions, a device which sends same frequency as police radar. This would slow down the speeders with radar detectors close to you.
Drone Radar in Work Zones – Kansas
http://www.its.dot....609_files/8_3_2.htm
Radar system deployed to trigger radar detectors of speeders, in order to slow them down near work zones. Measured speeds before and after, didn't really make any difference. [jutta, Sep 17 2007]
here's one
http://www.informat...peed-sign-FAQ.shtml
[xandram, Sep 17 2007]
Use a real one, that way you can call the cops on 'em and be a REAL narc!
http://www.opticsal...ity-speed-guns.html
[21 Quest, Sep 17 2007]
Here's an even cheaper one, 30 bucks at Wal-Mart
http://www.makezine...eels_radar_gun.html
[21 Quest, Sep 17 2007]
Customer reviews of that device on Amazon
http://www.amazon.c...011#customerReviews
"It does not set off my radar detector in the car, which makes me happy, too." Might be directionality, though. [jutta, Sep 18 2007]
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Then for a little extra cost you could attach a device for capturing an image of the person that was speeding and then you could impose some kind of monetary punishment for the offence, which could be used to offset the cost of the device. |
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But seriously, I can see how this negates the effect of radar detectors while not affecting normal drivers (as long as the fake does not resemble the real ones) and as doppler radars (used in speed cameras) are a lot more expensive than normal radars (as used in automatic doors) this would be significantly cheaper than a speed camera. |
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the joy of turning it on just as a speed demon is coming up behind you. hehehe. + |
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Illegal in the U.S. under Federal Communications Commission rules ... |
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//Illegal in the U.S. under Federal Communications Commission rules ...// |
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Which would not necessairly keep the authorities from using them. |
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Also, has zero effect on the many people who speed and don't have radar detectors. Speeding is so prevalent and unenforced that 10 to 15 over is considered *normal* highway speed. |
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I don't like it. That's what cops are for. This just smacks of vigilanteism, which I do not agree with at all. If you really want to be a dick and try to stop people from going faster than you like, you're more than welcome to get their plates and call the cops. Most of the trouble in this world is people sticking their nose in other people's business. Sorry, but I have to bone this. |
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Besides, why not use a real radar gun? You can buy simple ones for dirt cheap. A simple Google search brought up lots of hits. I found a nice Bushnell radar gun for 83 bucks. See link. |
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And xandram, I've seen plenty of those things all across the country, but I, too, live in the US. Had 'em in Japan, too, but that was a long time ago. |
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//10 to 15 over is considered *normal* highway speed.// |
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Not in Spokane it isn't! I got a 134.00 ticket for going 9 over (the pig wrote me up for going 15 over, but I never got more than 9 over, I've been pulled over so many times I know exactly how accurate my speedometer is, too!). Daytona, however... I had to get up to 24 over before getting pulled over. And that was on Super Bowl Sunday. Funny, that was only a 118.00 ticket. Twice as much over the limit, less fine. Florida rocked, I'm so moving back there next year! Anyone want to join me? I'm in the market for a roommate... and it's a fun drive. Road trip, anyone!?! |
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Just set up a fake accident, then EVERYONE will slow down (admittedly you couldn't have fun from the confines of your car). |
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Trouble is, this would cause more accidents...and the same could be said for any idea that suddenly tries to get drivers to slow down. |
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I also have another device which slows down most of the vehicles on highways before they get too close! |
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I have a van with tinted windows, looks very much like the vans Police are using here in New Zealand as speed camera vans. |
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I added a small data CD to the back window and from the distance it may look a bit like a speed camera lens? |
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Often I see cars following me about 200 metres behind and very few are tailgating anymore :) |
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Something that works well but doesn't interfere with other people's equipment (face it, you have no business doing that. It's what the police are paid by my damned tax dollars to enforce, not you!) is a couple extra antennae on your vehicle. Don't even have to be functional. That's the trademark of ALMOST every "undercover" police car here. |
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I actually don't want people speeding near me so having some passive devices to improve traffic safety must be a good thing.
Having a radio transmitter on the radar frequency might be illegal in some countries but so is speeding. |
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The problem is that "speeding" is also relative to the situation. For instance, come about 5 in the evening here when everybody's getting off work, everybody exceeds the speed limit by about 10-15 mph. It's called "rush hour" and the police know about it, and expect it, and don't pull you over *during that window* unless you're being stupid. It's actually legal, though almost never enforced, to get a ticket for impeding the flow of traffic by going the speed limit during such times, if you're holding people up. Despite this, there is always some asshole in the far-left lane going 5 mph below the limit, and raging and cursing at every car that passes him/her. Tell me, are you that asshole? Because you can usually spot a police car here pretty easily, they don't hide like in other places, and if my (and everybody else's) radar's going off and there aren't any cops around, you're going to be the prime suspect and the subject of a LOT of road rage. I hope you're prepared to make that sacrifice. |
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The beauty of this is that if enough people in your area are driving with radar detectors, ostensibly so they can determine for themselves what their speed limit is, then your radar drone negates the lawbreaking capacity of their detectors. With enough vehicles adhering to the letter of the limit, traffic around them has no choice but to do the same - at least the cars behind the detector cars - and the net result is that all the traffic in the vicinity of the drone adheres to the limit, detector or not. |
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If I choose, I can hit 75 on my ride to work and just be keeping up with the fast lane, or I can ride in the righthander and stick to the limit, and have people slowly creeping up on me. I actually prefer the slower speed: the car is happier, I arrive at work unstressed, etc. |
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I had a similar idea cobbled together out of a couple of old cameras. You'd point it in the direction of someone who'd just cut you up badly and pull the trigger and it would emit a couple of flashes, the characteristic half a second apart. The offending driver wouldn't know that they had come from your car but he (it is invariably a he isn't it?) would still have that "heart-sink moment" when he thinks he's been caught on speed-trap camera and, suitably chastened, he would drive a little bit more carefully (for a few miles at least).
Revenge is sweet. |
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//it is invariably a he isn't it?// No, it isn't. |
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//someone who'd just cut you up badly// |
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The term is cut off. Not cut up. Cut up is what happens when a knife is involved. |
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21 Quest: "Cut up" is a phrase used in England, but I have just learnt that "Cut off" is used elsewhere. |
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Ah... sorry, never heard it used that way before. I wasn't thinking about dialect differences. My apologies! |
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Ironically I got my speeding fine just few days after posting this.
I was talking to a passenger and did not notice the roadworks with the 50 Km/h sign, so I thought it was 100 Km/h and following car on front of me. Then I heard the siren and police car stopped me doing 72 Km/h! Sucks to get fined! |
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