CHP Have a new toy. Lidar units now used

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03-24-2007, 01:47 PM

jedwards

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CHP Have a new toy. Lidar units now used

Looked around for this news on the site and didn't see so I thought I'd give a heads up. As early as last Aug Lidar (laser speed detectors) were used by the CHP in Santa Cruz. Now it's in the BA.

I've seen it twice at the bottom of the Dublin Grade going westbound on the 580 at Castro Valley. V1 caught it but not on time... fortunately I wasn't going fast enough to get pulled.

At very least this may be a good spot to put sightings of cops with Lidar.

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03-24-2007, 02:53 PM

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Sactown had it a while back. Davis was pretty deadly especially when they had the bike cops and camaros posted behind the overpass.

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03-24-2007, 03:54 PM

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I saw them using it on 101 in Prundale the other day driving to work (speed trap of the month),... never even realized it was a new law

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03-24-2007, 05:22 PM

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I've seen some recently on 280 near the 92.

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03-24-2007, 10:32 PM

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Didn't cops always used speed detectors?

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03-24-2007, 10:53 PM

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Interestingly enough no the CHP did not. Only recently have they started to you Ka band radar (actually it's microwave). But last year in August they started using Lidar which is far tougher to detect as a motorist.

That's why I mentioned.

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03-24-2007, 10:53 PM

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I got tagged by one on highway 9 awhile back..

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03-25-2007, 10:03 AM

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Is this what the new "pop" revision is about regarding the Valentine V1's??? I have never even heard of Lidar... or maybe I have but just by another name.

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03-25-2007, 12:22 PM

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CHP bought five thousand LIDAR's back in the day. Who knows how many they have now

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03-25-2007, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by RWD_RCKT' date='Mar 25 2007, 10:03 AM

Is this what the new "pop" revision is about regarding the Valentine V1's??? I have never even heard of Lidar... or maybe I have but just by another name.

No POP is an instant on Ka microwave (could be K but I think Ka). Lidar is a laser gun that reflects off your car much like microwave but a far narrower beam. I don't know if there's any POP around here.

The problem to us with Lidar is that the beam is so narrow (Laser for crying out loud) that if your detector catches it, it's probably caught you.

There are laser shields but they're illegal in CA.

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