> Sandy Sandfort[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote
>
> Peter Trei wrote,
>
> > One gizmo I dreamed up...resembles
> > a windspeed guage, but with cube-corner
> > reflectors instead of cups...
>
> I thought up a similar but stealthier version some time back. The corner
> cuts would be on bars that rotate about a horizontal axis. The whole
> assembly would be inside a visual opaque (but radar transparent) cylinder
> on
> the front bumper of the car. It could be made to look like a water
> container or heavy-duty bumper or whatever. Either the receding or
> advancing portion of the bar's rotation could be behind a radar opaque
> barrier (depending on whether you'd like to subtract or
> add--ridiculously--to your true speed).
>
Yeah, I figured out that one too - the main goals are making it less
obvious, and to increase the area which reflects back at the source.
A system for defeating laser speed guns could involve mounting a
high-wattage IR spotlight beside your plate, to dazzle the
receptor in the gun.
For automated photolasers, mount a slave flash beside your plate.
When the camera goes off, its flash will trigger yours, again dazzling
the camera.
[Note to snoops - I have never done any of these. Speculation (without
action) is still a Constitutional right, right?]
Peter
