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Old 12-22-2008, 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by twofifty View Post
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.
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.