CHP is now using Lidar
story
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/10416896/detail.html

video
http://video.nbc4.tv/player.html?dlid=47698

Speaks for itself. They just spent $1.1M to catch us.

 

Laser jammer are the way to go

 

Heres your linkhttp://www.radarbusters.com/products...er/default.asp

but in the video the lidar cop is on a bridge and can get you coming or going and the units are parked on the shoulder.
If he gets a jammed signal they will stop you anyway as jamming a signal is illegal.

 

I did not know they were illegal. I need to look it up , and if it's trure, I better take mine off

 

Anybody wanna buy a lidar???
http://cgi.ebay.com/LTI-ULTRALYTE-10...QQcmdZViewItem

 

When I was in the Porsche tuning business I used to sell and install 5-6 K40 radar jammers a week. Ah…the good old days…

 

I wonder if/when I ask what items the thing measured distances to if they will tell me...

 

I saw that on the news today. I was afraid they were going to start mailing speeding tickets like they do for red lights...

 

In the mail speeding tickets are still aways off. You need 3 things:
Speed of vehicle
Location
Speed limit.
Eventually they will get approval for computer recorders with enough memory that during your annual vehicle checkup(yes it will go to yearly) your driving habits and location will be downloaded and sent to a State data base.
This will be interlaced with a GIS street map that includes speed limits.
With your computer speed record, GPS location record, and the street map, Bingo here's your ticket.

 

This is from another board.

When you see the CHP on the bridge with the lidar gun, call the local cops and report a sniper.
The locals dont know where the CHP is working.

 

Except that LAPD or Sheriffs would probably respond with an air unit first to examine the scene before commiting any patrol units.

And CHP has jurisdiction anywhere in the state.

 

Now we know what Mike does at 3:00 AM before he logs on to the message board.

 

I concur.
Exc Mikey tends to not see them until too late.

 

as far as i know radar jammers are illegal, but laser jammers aren't. thats old info though, it could have changed in the last year or two.

edit: illegal in Nebraska, Minnesota, Utah, California, Oklahoma, Virginia, Colorado, Illinois and Washington DC.

 

I hope your refering to much newer cars than most of us currently own

 

There are some people already doing this to reduce their insurance rates.
One hold up is the privacy issue. Cheating husbands/wives, etc.
And they dont have the GIS maps or the software to interface them, but it will come.
As it is, all 2008 vehicles will have Federal mandated traction control. And with that I see the removal of the traction on/off button.
I think its the new Mustang that refuses to do a burnout.
And some rental companies were fining people speeding (over 65), after the fact. No notice just additonal charges to your CC. And quite large charges.

 

That sounds like the infamous "black box" some new cars are supposed to have. From what I've heard, they were installed at the factory for insurance purposes in the event of an accident.

They are supposed to record only a few seconds or so, so that an insurance company can have the data just prior to the impact.

 

The ones that the "volunteers" have record a lot of data so over a years time the insurace company can download it and review the insureds driving habits.

The rental car one just recorded when the vehicle expeeded the States highest speed limit. After returning the car the data would be downoloaded and if you exceeded the speed limit they would tack a charge on your credit card.

 

Thebox you are refering to is in my 2000 SS. Supposidly if the airbag goes off the data at the time is saved. However I was told by someone that it also recorded engine overspeed as in the rev limiter and other paramaters,I'm not sure what they were.I think this must have started with the totally computer controled engine.Pretty much the last "New" car I will ever be buying. Just my

 

Almost all new vehicles are "drive by wire". The only mechanical drive items are the steering wheel and brakes.
And as soon as the Govt requires traction control and stability control (Ford turnovers) all driving will be computer controlled.
All drive by wire info is computer recorded. How much is still a secret, the Govt only allows the last ~10 sec before a crash. \
The computers are like survaliance cameras, just holds so much data then starts recording over old data.

 

my 98 was the last year for fbod's without the lil black box. This is getting to be ridiculous.