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Originally Posted by twofifty
Interesting story about the red car.
Anyone know how long is the delay between the radar unit cyphering a vehicle's speed, and the moment that the camera shutter takes the picture?
Lots can happen in a tenth of a second at 60mph: like 8.79 feet !
That's approx. half a vehicle's length, or enough for the red car to exit the picture before the image is captured, or to hide behind yours.
How to use that in court is another matter.
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I can't remember what it was, but a while back Mythbusters had a show about photo radar. They said how fast the cameras take photos after the radar goes off. It was stupid fast. I was trying to find the information on the interweb earlier, and all I could find was
THIS LINK.