Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!hp-kirk!mark From: mark@hp-kirk.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: radar detectors - (nf) Message-ID: <1140@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jun-83 03:24:22 EDT Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.1140 Posted: Sat Jun 11 03:24:22 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jun-83 03:24:46 EDT Lines: 16 #R:vortex:-5500:hp-kirk:7200004:000:755 hp-kirk!mark Jun 9 14:50:00 1983 It turns out that the use of radar on freeways in California and the use of radar on a street that has not had an engineering and traffic survey done within the previous five years constitutes a "speed trap".(Also included in the speed trap definition is the timing of a vehicle between two fixed points). Speed traps as just defined are not legal in California. Presumably the purpose of this law was to require police to actually observe a vehicle for some time rather than simply relying on a single instantaneous reading of speed for the purposes of determining unsafe driving. "Death" Rowe hp-pcd!hp-cvd!mark Corvallis, Oregon