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From: braman@dataio.UUCP (Rick Braman)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: (A Sermon on) Radar Surveillance
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Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 06:44:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 06:44:49 1985
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> Two arguments FOR radar detectors:
> 
> 1. They alert you to radar traps ahead, where traffic will slow
>    down unexpectedly.  They alert you to situations where a
>    police car - and potentially a hazard - is ahead.  In short,
>    they encourage you to be prepared for potential hazards.
> 
> 2. The claimed purpose of radar detectors (claimed by the manufacturers,
>    that is) is to remind you to check your speed at times when it
>    is particularly important.  Unless you drive a burned out Datsun
>    B210, you might find that either (a) it is easy to creep past the
>    speed limit without necessarily intending to do so, or (b) you
>    have to spend a lot of driving time looking at your speedometer
>    (instead of the road) if you want to obey the law.

I think the issue of radar speed checking is a hard one to come to grips
with, but I don't agree with the above statements.  I would like to meet
just one person who **REALLY** bought a radar detector just for **SAFETY**
reasons.  I have never talked to anyone who owns one that didn't admit
that the real reason they purchased one was to avoid speeding tickets.
I don't own one myself, but I do keep a sharp eye out for radar traps. Out
of all the times that I could have gotten a ticket for speeding, the one
time that I actually did was really dumb.  It was on a four lane street where
the speed limit was reduced from 40mph to 30mph after a car/pedestrian 
accident.  I was used to going 40 and forgot one day, and of course that was
the day the radar unit was there waiting.  Oh well!  Anyway, I think that
people should be allowed to own them since all they are is a radio frequency
receiver.  How they choose to use them is up to them.
-- 

Rick Braman
Data I/O Corporation
Redmond, WA

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