GPS Article

[Super Dave]

Check this out - interesting...

http://autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar...73295854642511

[rose1]

Check this out - interesting...

http://autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar...73295854642511

X2 Very interesting. I dont the pro78 is invisible to spectre though. I also don't think it performed the worst. The pro78 rev c that I have does an excellent job.

[Esoterica]

Sounds like its time to paint the top of your vehicle to camouflage in and match the look of the road surface, next generation VASCAR...

But that doesn’t mean the end of the shark-and-bait game of highway speed enforcement. Now, imagine a traffic cop sitting in the comfort of his Crown Vic and watching your bright yellow Z06 zooming eastbound on his laptop’s real-time Google Earth image. He’s 20 miles in front of you on I-70 in Hays, Kansas. He clocks your speed while watching the satellite-provided live motion picture and distantly, silently and undetectably waits until you’re soon the catch of the day (if the courts agree that live images are the same as being there; thousands of tickets are automatically sent daily from the approximately 2000 red-light enforcement cameras in the United States without benefit of a live witness).

I don't see this being a realistic scenario till they start sending dedicated satellites into space built and designed for this specific purpose. As a tax payer the expense associated behind them doing this would never be justifiable. They already seem to have a hard enough time justifying the expense of normal VASCAR. One LEO is going to have their own fixed position dedicated billion dollar satellite just to write someone a $95 speeding ticket. Maybe when the cost of building a satellite and sending it in to space becomes closer to the cost of a disposable Bic Lighter.

[Loiosh]

LoL, no kidding. They have trouble just affording their airplane's operation.

[Super Dave]

Yep - just adds to the fact that there are always enough speeders to go around - why they spend so much money and resources to catch the 1%of drivers that are RD users when we typically are safer than the ones driving 100+, drunk, no license, no insurance, not paying attention, cant figure out what keep right means, etc...

[<<JAZZY>>]

My favorite quote was from Mike Valentine:

Valentine explains: Because he does not sell his detectors through retail stores, he can control returns from customers who complain of too many false signals by teaching them how to read a Valentine One unit’s plentiful signals. His engineering priority, therefore, is to keep his detectors the most sensitive on the market. “We’ll manage the annoyance of false signals,” Valentine says. “But we are not going to reduce awareness of the signals.”

[Esoterica]

Yep - just adds to the fact that there are always enough speeders to go around - why they spend so much money and resources to catch the 1%of drivers that are RD users when we typically are safer than the ones driving 100+, drunk, no license, no insurance, not paying attention, cant figure out what keep right means, etc...

There's a lot of truth to that, certainly your going to have idiots in anything that spoil it for the majority, but in just reading from all of the die hard detector users here you have to admit, for the most part we are all very aware drivers.

This was clearly one of those many "predictions" magazines and media often attempt to make in the hopes of some day being able to go back and say we told you so, yet as more often than not when it never happens they only hope people we'll forget its ever been mentioned. I'm still waiting for the Jetsons style flying vehicles that fold up into a briefcase predicted we'd all have back in the early 1950's, it's 2008 now, we should have had these already years ago.

My favorite quote was from Mike Valentine:

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And that paid advertisement was relevant to this thread in what way? That goes beyond just being a troll, that's blatant spam. Since when are spammers tolerated on any message board?