Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cvl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!eli From: eli@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Re: Radar Surveillance Message-ID: <714@cvl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 11:08:14 EDT Article-I.D.: cvl.714 Posted: Mon Aug 12 11:08:14 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 02:09:00 EDT References: <4891@allegra.UUCP> <57500005@inmet.UUCP> Organization: Computer Vision Lab, U. of Maryland, College Park Lines: 24 > > [] > I object to simple "one spring" radar traps, where a police patrol car > sits hidden in the bushes, or parked illegally on a side street, and > catches the "first" car that zips by exceeding the speed limit. > > --Hal Stern > Intermetrics, Inc. > {harpo, ulysses, ima, ihnp4}!inmet!stern What happens if you have an accident with a police car illegally parked? To be more specific, once, I saw a speed trap on a 4 lane divided road (not highway) where the police car was parked illegally in an intersection near a divider WITH HIS LIGHTS OFF! By no stretch of the imagination, I could imagine some one turning left and colliding with him, after being slightly blinded by the glare of oncoming headlights. Oh well... -eli -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eli Liang --- University of Maryland Computer Vision Lab, (301) 454-4526 ARPA: liang@cvl, liang@lemuria, eli@mit-mc, eli@mit-prep CSNET: liang@cvl UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!cvl!liang