Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.auto,net.legal Subject: Re: Radar Surveillance Message-ID: <585@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 15:22:45 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.585 Posted: Fri Aug 9 15:22:45 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 04:42:58 EDT References: <1081@homxa.UUCP> <4891@allegra.UUCP> <269@ihlpl.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 10 Xref: linus net.auto:6546 net.legal:1649 > > I don't know what signs there are on "the parkway", but helicopters are > a perfectly good way to enforce speeding laws. Many areas of the > country have special markings on the pavement; officers in aircraft can > calculate a car's speed by seeing how long it takes to cross two > markings. An alternative to this is the old-fashioned way of following > a suspected speeder in a car, matching speeds. I can think of one good reason not to use helicopters, the suckers are expensive to operate for this kind of frivolous activity.