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From: bwm@ccice1.UUCP (Bradford W. Miller)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.legal
Subject: Re: Re: Radar Surveillance
Message-ID: <364@ccice1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 11:21:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 11:21:16 1985
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In article <249@steinmetz.UUCP> connolly@steinmetz.UUCP (C. Ian Connolly) writes:
>If I remember correctly, police radars have a fair amount of error.  This
>is why, for example, NY State cops almost always set their radars for 65
>mph.  This is far enough above the speed limit to compensate for the radar
>error.  It would be interesting to compare the error obtained from timing
>via aircraft with radar error.  Does anybody have more info on this?

NY cops don't set their limit to 65 because of error (which is < 1% on most devices),
but because they don't want to have to stop everyone on the road! The AVERAGE speed
on interstates in NY is 60ish.

Brad Miller
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