Strange Encounter

[jas0ndotc0m]

Ah, so now I just have to figure out why the cars with laser cc are spewing laser scatter everywhere, and why I'm picking it up at full strength through rain

[ersin]

If I'm not mistaken, the laser on the Infinities is continuous. The rain on your windshield acts like a lens to focus the laser into the lens of the V1. But, since the rain is random so too is the light that gets focused up into the V1 lens. This is my guess as to why it was going off randomly. I believe it is the same effect as when I use my windshield washers in the sun and having the V1 alert to laser.

As to the full strength alerts, a V1 laser alert is always full strength. Just think of it as an on-off thing. It is either alerting (full strength) or not.

[Cips]

The Infinity laser guided cruise control is not continuous, per se. It's always on, but the actual beam does more of a: transmit for a few seconds, off for a few, transmit for a few, off for a few...

[ersin]

The Infinity laser guided cruise control is not continuous, per se. It's always on, but the actual beam does more of a: transmit for a few seconds, off for a few, transmit for a few, off for a few...

Well, that would explain the "randomness" that the OP sees.

[jas0ndotc0m]

yeah, how gay lol would a tune up or update on firmware help this case? or it's probably something VR is working on..

[ersin]

yeah, how gay lol would a tune up or update on firmware help this case? or it's probably something VR is working on..

I don't think it would help at all. That's just the way it is. When the Infinity is not transmitting you'll get no alert. Of course it doesn't hurt to send your V1 in for a tune-up anyway.

[kpatz]

The Infinity laser guided cruise control is not continuous, per se. It's always on, but the actual beam does more of a: transmit for a few seconds, off for a few, transmit for a few, off for a few...

It's a narrow beam aimed forward and low, to sense how far the Infiniti is from the car ahead of it. The randomness of the alerts is due to that beam not always hitting the V1's rear sensor, depending on the following distance, location of V1, any vehicles between you and the Infiniti, anything in your car that might partially block the beam such as the seats, your head, etc. Due to the low aim of the beam, it's basically scatter the V1 is picking up (which is why most other windshield mount detectors don't false on the LCC, they aren't as sensitive to beam scatter).

I think the Infiniti system transmits continuously as long as it's moving. When stopped it doesn't transmit. At least that's what I've observed, as I've never had an Infiniti stopped at a light set off my V1.

[Solidjake]

The Infinity laser guided cruise control is not continuous, per se. It's always on, but the actual beam does more of a: transmit for a few seconds, off for a few, transmit for a few, off for a few...

+1

[Z06Boricua]

[QUOTE=kpatz;833135]

I think the Infiniti system transmits continuously as long as it's moving. When stopped it doesn't transmit. At least that's what I've observed, as I've never had an Infiniti stopped at a light set off my V1.

Interestingly enough, this happened to me today on the way home from work in heavy traffic with an Infiniti. It actually does not transmit below a certain speed. This is what I observed today with one directly behind me. In stop-n-go traffic, my V1 was silent. As soon as we'd hit some speed over 30-40mph, it would start alerting every few seconds. Another funny thing that happened is when he first showed up, my LI alerted with an unknown gun warning. Even though I was doing like 5-10mph in heavy traffic at the time, like 2-3 drops of pee still came out. :P

Jose

[jas0ndotc0m]

Interestingly enough, this happened to me today on the way home from work in heavy traffic with an Infiniti.

so you're saying that its not only when they turn on cruise control, but it goes off once they past a certain speed?