All and all, I think Laser is fairer than Radar. There really isn't any dispute that it wasn't your car targeted unlike Radar.
As with Radar too, you can't have a detector and be the only car blasting down the road and expect to get away ticket free. You need the cover of other vehicles ahead of you so you can pick up the stray emissions. Dave. '90 GLi ----- Original Message ----- : That is true, but only applies for 'normal' license plates. : Many states have painted plates which, like most surfaces, relfect a : mix of diffusely and specularly reflected light. The CA plates are : retro-reflective, like street signs, bicycle reflectors. . . This : means that an incident light ray is reflected back on itself, not : obeying the law of reflection. Well, actually it does obey the law of : reflection, just on a smaller scale: the surface is coated with a : material which contains micro-corner-cube-reflectors. A corner cube : reflector is just a reflective material shaped like the inside corner : of a cube (you'll often see large (6"+) Aluminum reflectors hanging : from the masts of sailboats, so they show up better to radar, these : are just large corner-cubes) If you examine the geometry, and use the : law of reflection, you'll see that any light ray which strikes such a : structure will bounce three times and go back exactly where it came : from. So any license plated with a retro- relfective coating is a : GREAT target for laser. _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
