Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!ugzannin From: ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Re: What is VASCAR? Message-ID: <2423@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 20:13:33 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.2423 Posted: Thu Oct 31 20:13:33 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 08:10:49 EST References: <7@druor.UUCP> <522@moncol.UUCP> Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 28 > >I'd like information on VASCAR (used by the police > >to record car speed). How is it different > >from radar? Is it suppose to be less error-prone? > >How error-free would it be on a four-lane highway > >(one-way traffic) when all lanes are busy? > > VASCAR stands for Visual Average Speed Computer And Recorder. It is > not radar; in fact it doesn't use microwave radiation, so radar > detectors are useless against it. The way VASCAR works is: > 1) Police measure distance between two points on highway. > 2) They enter this distance into the unit. > 3) As the potential speeder passes the first point, police start unit. > 4) As the car passes the second point, officer stops unit. > 5) Unit does simple arithmetic on time and distance, then displays > speed. . . . etc If that is so, how come there is a sign around the campus here warning motorists that VASCAR *radar* patrol is being used? -- Adrian Zannin ..{bbncca,decvax,dual,rocksvax,watmath,sbcs}!sunybcs!ugzannin CSNET: ugzannin@Buffalo.CSNET ARPANET: ugzannin%Buffalo@csnet-relay.ARPA BITNET: ugzannin@sunybcs.BITNET