re photo radar was re rec autos frequently in article viewlogic com brad buck viewlogic com bradford kellogg writes in article mar cabot balltown cma com welty cabot balltown cma com richard welty writes q what is ka band radar where is it used should a radar detector be able to handle it a ka band has recently been made available by the fcc for use in the us in so called photo radar installations in these installations a low powered beam is aimed across the road at a degree angle to the direction of traffic and a picture is taken of vehicles which the radar unit determines to have been in violation of the speed limit tickets are mailed to the owner of the vehicle because of the low power and the degree angle many people believe that a radar detector cannot give reasonable warning of a ka band radar unit although some manufacturers of radar detectors have added such capability anyway the number of locales where photo radar is in use is limited and some question the legality of such units best advice learn what photo radar units look like and keep track of where they are used or else don t speed photo radar and mailed tickets make no sense at all speeding is a moving violation committed by the operator not the owner the owner may be a rental agency a dealer a private party or a government agency as long as the owner has no reason to expect the operator will be driving illegally or unsafely the owner cannot be held responsible for what the operator does the car may even have been driven without the owner s knowledge or consent i can t believe a mailed ticket where the driver is not identified would stand up in court this is obviously a lazy cynical boneheaded fascist way to extort revenue and has nothing to do with public safety bk we had those f g photo radar things here in sweden a while ago there was a lot of fuzz about them and a lot of sabotage too a spray can with touch up paint can do a lot of good eventually they had to drop the idea as there were a lot of court cases where the owner of the car could prove he didn t drive it at the time of speeding i especially recall a case where it eventually proved to be a car thief that had stolen a car and made false plates he ofcourse chose a license number of a identical car so the photo seemed correct in conclosion photo radar sucks every way you look at it markus
