Holy #$# Radar Drones! Options

[Brando]

I'm usually on the freeway doing 80... keeping up with someone or following them.

It'd be nice if someone could get some paint on those solar panels...

[bd1308]

why have them solar powered if they are actually being used. Wouldn't it make more sense to just have them powered by the police? something like power over ethernet, only it would be power-over-dronewire

[Red-Beard]

I doubt they are legel if they are nothing more than a 10 or 24 ghz beacon. The FCC will most likely weigh in on this.

But with the way the courts, etc, Feds, etc are ruling these days, they can probably get away from it.

[Midtowner]

Found in today's San Jose Mercury News. They call it a traffic reporting system. Yeah right.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews...ow/12112101.htm
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[cnavarro]

I swear that the "deer warning system" i've seen in IL and IN with radar guns are nothing more than drones. Same with the "construction" signs in non-construction areas again with drones attached. :-)

[Midtowner]

Okay, so it's for traffic reporting only however with your radar detector going off every time you pass by one of these things, you have no idea if its a drone or a cop. Did I mention that I don't like (or trust) cops? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/finger.gif)

[Joe Bob]

Hmmm, very timely thread. My detector was having K band fits the last couple of days. I started looking up when it went off. I saw utility lines with delta shaped mesh objects with antennas sprouting out. Kinda like the model foil helmet Miles' wears....

I figured it was some kind of spoof.....most local yokel PDs use K band, but I was in an area exclusively patrolled by CHP which uses Ka band.

X is mostly used by the "how fast are you going" trailers (new ones use K) and door openers at K Mart.....

[redshift]

Soon, they will be tagging, and then releasing us back into the wild.


M

[Tom73]

QUOTE (bperry @ Jul 11 2005, 10:43 AM)

The FCC and the courts eventually declared that this was not a valid use of the radio frequency since the frequency was specificially reserved for "real" radar tracking devices and the dummy radar trasmitters were not actually being used for anything but emitting a radio signal and were declared to be illegal radio transmitters.

That is what I had always thought but apparently it changed in '91. Found this:

USDOT/NHTSA directive DOT HS 897 753, August 1991, page 5, “At NHTSA’s request, the FCC has recently reconsidered its policy and will permit the use of unattended, continuously radiating radar, i.e. radar drones. The Commission continues to require that any radar units used in drone operation must be type accepted and licensed, by the Commission.”

tom...

[Brando]

QUOTE (redshift @ Jul 12 2005, 02:33 PM)

Soon, they will be tagging, and then releasing us back into the wild. M

Isnt that what CA is trying to do with in-vehicle GPS units that call home [DMV]?

[scotty b]

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/dry.gif) How about we build some child molester drones, and let the honest guy enjoy his car? I know that's CRAZY and maybe I should be admonishd for thinking it, but my speeding has yet to kill, mame, disfigure, or even cause a nervous breakdown, much less RUIN some innocent childs life. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/flipa.gif) Pigs you'll never catch me alive (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/driving.gif) Andele, Andele, Arriba, Arriba Yehaha

[dgw]

the trouble with is that the real idiots are unaffected. I drive this road twice a week, used to be 5 times until I got lucky and can telecommute, and the racer wanna be's are still cutting back and forth across 4 lanes of traffic to get one or two cars down the road.

and of course the giant suv's will still tailgate you "because they can". If you ever had to do an emergency stop in a 914 you would be dead.

[mightyohm]

The whole idea of using radar drones to set off radar detectors is foolish. What percentage of motorists actually have radar detectors? 5%? Less? How long until everyone realizes that it's drones and not a CHP?

Traffic monitoring makes more sense. But I don't know what the real story is.

Thanks for the radio pollution, assholes.

[snflupigus]

This is retarded.... somebody made a few grand selling those things to somebody in the gov....

I try not to speed but do drive a little "fun."

btw, their need to control speed is somewhat legit.... 44k people died in car accidents last year. Now im sure there's a stat for people dying while making coffee or taking a crap too that would be suprising, probably more people died taking a crap last year than soldiers did in iraq, but you wont see that on the news.

The whole drones sending out K is just a big signal that people in general have all gotten fat stupid and lazy in this country... so much so that they dont even feel like hiring real cops to take care of something, just um, let the drones do it.... I hate photo radar and any other sort of passive "gotcha"

Next thing you know we'll get a ticket printing out of the f'n wall for swearing like on Judge Dred!

.22 - screw it, get out the ak or 45

[Joe Bob]

Yeah....makes sense.....guy/gal in a hotrod crams on the brakes instinctively when a detector goes off.....and some dork who's tail gaiting, sipping on a latte and/or geting a blow job in a heavy ass SUV with inadequate brakes piles into the rear....makes a lot of fucking sense.

To the asshole that thought this up.... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/flipa.gif)

I've driven past them...on diff occasions.....they seem to pulse....from nothing to full on beam.....a detector with SCREAM....it's like a kid in the back seat that dropped a hot chocolate in their lap.

[nebreitling]

just drove 280 tonight, they were off. i figured that they could store their solar power, guess not...


speed all you want at night!!!!!