Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site weitek.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!amd!amdcad!cae780!weitek!neal From: neal@weitek.UUCP (Neal Bedard) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Re: What is VASCAR? Message-ID: <316@weitek.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 22:36:39 EST Article-I.D.: weitek.316 Posted: Mon Nov 4 22:36:39 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:25:47 EST References: <7@druor.UUCP> <522@moncol.UUCP> <2423@sunybcs.UUCP> Organization: Weitek Corporation, Sunnyvale Lines: 31 In article <2423@sunybcs.UUCP>, ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin) writes: > > >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? > > > > 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. > > 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 Police malfeasance. There is a model of radar gun (Kustom KR-??) that has a VASCAR timer/calculator built in. A police buzzword for it is `detector-proof radar', which is falsehood, since VASCAR is nothing more than a glorified stopwatch. The PD in question should have its knuckles rapped for that sign. VASCAR's accuracy depends soley upon the officer visually measuring the time interval of a vehicle passing between two observable points a known distance apart. This introduces human factors at mamy points in the system, and the attendant potential for error and/or abuse not present in radar. VASCAR is the only method that your speed can be measured from an aircraft (look for the white marks on the shoulder sometime.) -Neal -- 55. It's a law we can do away with. UUCP: {turtlevax, resonex, cae780}!weitek!neal