why when Lamborghini's are going 90mph on parkways, they never get pulled over? (Oyster Bay: license plate, island)
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Right they're shooting 1 specific vehicle. If the vehicle in front of you is targeted, your detector won't pick it up. LIDAR is simply light aimed at a specific vehicle, and it needs to be pointed at something reflective - license plate, head light, taillight, etc. At 1000', the beam is only 3 feet , so there's virtually zero room for error.
And if not every situation is laser, which I know by experience they are not, and that's the only example you can provide, then radar detectors aren't useless as you said.
I see this all the time. It is a conspiracy with the cops. I thought I was the only one to detect this police misconduct. They also ignore those galloping unicorns.
Right they're shooting 1 specific vehicle. If the vehicle in front of you is targeted, your detector won't pick it up. LIDAR is simply light aimed at a specific vehicle, and it needs to be pointed at something reflective - license plate, head light, taillight, etc. At 1000', the beam is only 3 feet , so there's virtually zero room for error.
There may be zero room for error in picking out a specific car to target, but that doesn't mean there isn't still stray light that can be detected even if you're not the painted target. Remember that LIDAR units are hand-held, and it only takes a few tenths of a degree of wobble at the source to move that 3-foot beam a few feet off-center at distance long enough for good, sensitive LIDAR detector to pick up scatter if, for instance, the painted target is a car in front of you, particularly if you're in different lanes.
And the fact that LIDAR guns have to be hand-held and stationary is a prime reason why the vast, vast majority of speed monitoring is still done by radar.
Think about how often you actually see someone stopped. Maybe 3 times in a day if they're not doing directed enforcement? Now think about how rare it is to see a Lamborghini. The chances of seeing one pulled over are slim to none.
This is exactly right. I'm not sure why people don't understand this concept.
Think about how often you actually see someone stopped. Maybe 3 times in a day if they're not doing directed enforcement? Now think about how rare it is to see a Lamborghini. The chances of seeing one pulled over are slim to none.
Exactly . OP may be cleverly goofing on the LI citi data tradition of conjuring generalites out of slim sample sizes.
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