Gizmo to set off radar detectors
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Sounds like a great idea, if you can get a good enough range.
https://www.phonejammer.com/product.p...0&bestseller=Y
Found this... but at only 20meters range, seems it would interrupt a cell phone call just in time for the driver to run you over while fumbling around trying to redial.
https://www.phonejammer.com/product.p...0&bestseller=Y
Found this... but at only 20meters range, seems it would interrupt a cell phone call just in time for the driver to run you over while fumbling around trying to redial.
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I have a white light and a red light as taillights. Both of them are flashing at night. It looks like a police car that just pulled someone over from far away, so people will slow down when they see anything that even remotely looks like a cop car if they're speeding. I've never been hassled by the cops about it.
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Second, nobody's converting energy into matter. We're just talking about different frequencies of electromagnetic energy. When the frequency is low, it might be a radio station. Get up higher, microwaves. Get up higher, it might be blue light. Get up higher, gamma "rays". It's all the same stuff.
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I see a future where this will be standard bicycle safety option. Eventually, they will develop a transmitter small enough to be mounted to the bike and send a constant "cyclist alert" signal.
The FCC has set aside a portion of the 5.9 GHz band for automotive wireless safety-based communications and has become forceful about defending this spectrum. So startup ideas like this one have been motivated to implement in that band. The communications channel has been designed, the so-called Digital Short-Range Communications (DSRC) system aka "Wireless Access in the Vehicle Environment" or WAVE. A recently-ended large-scale test was called Vehicle/Infrastructure Integration (VII), and has shown some level of feasibility. Basically each car would carry a small transciever like a WiFi card with antennae strategically placed around the vehicle, with a digital gateway to interface this comm link to the vehicle and driver. Functionally it's basically for safety based on vehicle to roadside and vehicle to vehicle (to a lesser extent) communications.
Currently the project has morphed into "Intellidrive," led by the Department of Transportation. It will expand to more extensive vehicle vehicle, vehicle to cyclist where feasible, and vehicle to pedestrian where feasible. It will also open the physical scope to comm links way beyond 5.9 GHz with WiFi-like signal encoding. Lest we all get too excited, these are investigations leading to large scale (hopefully dozens of installations) tests with a wide range of normal drivers recruited from the general population. For the time being they'll lead to government research papers, not yet products. But the OEMs, electronics companies, auto suppliers, and state governments are involved providing parts of the test systems, so the necessary research is being done. Look for more papers in about 3 years.
Being a big Fed program, it's existence is fragile and turns in direction are possible. But the underlying issues that have prevented things like the safety message system first mentioned from starting are national interoperability (works the same all over the country) and chicken/egg. This latter one is huge. Big investments are needed from governments and industry for this system, which involves vehicles and infrasturctures, to come into being. Both have been looking at each other across the table and wondering who's going to write a big check first. Hence the Department of Transportation has assumed the role to coordinate and facilitate progress, because across industry it was stymied.
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Instead of something to set off radar detectors, how about some sort of an electromagnetic pulse generator to shut down cars at will. I know it would be violate several laws, but think of the possibilities. One of my coworkers came up with this idea a couple of weeks ago when I was complaining about being passed too closely on the way into work. I'm sure someone electronically minded could come up with this fairly easily. Go ahead and pass me with inches to spare buddy, I'm shutting you down. And it would have the added benefit of shutting off the cell phone at the same time.
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I mean if used under the wrong circumstances it could cause a MAJOR accident with injuries and/or deaths.
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The ones I've seen are not EMP generators, they're basically remote-controlled cars with a wire sticking up and another sticking down to touch the ground. Cops can drive them under cars they are chasing, and when the wire brushes the underside of the car, they dump a few thousand volts into the chassis, simulating a small lighting hit. It's possible it uses some frequencies other than just a DC current dump, I don't know.
Certainly not EMP though. Even if directed, you'd burn out every cell phone, stop light controller, and other electronics in that direction for a few hundred feet. Not to mention the fact that in order to generate enough power in the EMP, it would probably have to be pumped with explosives.
Certainly not EMP though. Even if directed, you'd burn out every cell phone, stop light controller, and other electronics in that direction for a few hundred feet. Not to mention the fact that in order to generate enough power in the EMP, it would probably have to be pumped with explosives.
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Trade your present car for a white Ford Crown Vic with big blackwall tires and an oversized whip radio antenna--make your ride look as much like a police car as you can without violating the law.
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At least in my neighborhood: A car's detector would BLAT! and the car would slow down, the car behind him with no detector, would swing around and try to pass him on the right while flipping off the slowing speeder - and then kill me in the right-hand lane.
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The ones I've seen are not EMP generators, they're basically remote-controlled cars with a wire sticking up and another sticking down to touch the ground. Cops can drive them under cars they are chasing, and when the wire brushes the underside of the car, they dump a few thousand volts into the chassis, simulating a small lighting hit. It's possible it uses some frequencies other than just a DC current dump, I don't know.
Certainly not EMP though. Even if directed, you'd burn out every cell phone, stop light controller, and other electronics in that direction for a few hundred feet. Not to mention the fact that in order to generate enough power in the EMP, it would probably have to be pumped with explosives.
Certainly not EMP though. Even if directed, you'd burn out every cell phone, stop light controller, and other electronics in that direction for a few hundred feet. Not to mention the fact that in order to generate enough power in the EMP, it would probably have to be pumped with explosives.
These issues could be why it seems to have never come to teh surface. I saw it back in 1992.
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A device like that would be large and unwieldy to generate an EMP strong enough to penetrate the faraday cage comprised of a steel auto body and stop a car.
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I want a helmet camera with built-in radar which shows the speed of each vehicle in the video.
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It may be that radar systems require an amount of power that would make the batteries inconvenient.
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Also, the camera needs to record YOUR speed in addition to the car's speed. The car's actual speed is the difference (or sum) of its speed and yours (the radar gun measures the difference between its speed and whatever it's clocking).
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Hotwheels makes a real radar gun that runs for an hour or so on four AAA cells. It works pretty well but I don't know how aimable it is.
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I wonder if these devices would confuse my pacemaker, or the many other implant devices that people walking around have. I also wonder that if it was found out that someone died because of a jammer, if that person would have the guts to come forward and admit it, or would they keep silent like a hit and run driver?
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I wonder if these devices would confuse my pacemaker, or the many other implant devices that people walking around have. I also wonder that if it was found out that someone died because of a jammer, if that person would have the guts to come forward and admit it, or would they keep silent like a hit and run driver?