New Radar in Louisiana?

[Pas Tout La]

I saw this in an email this morning.......... Any LEO care to share any insight in this new system. Is it even legit? If so, I think it's pretty damn cool.

Heads Up:
New Radar installed along Highway in railing system, it is motion activated, radar detectors are useless, when system is turned on you are instantly busted, a photo of your car and speed is sent to a patrol car a few miles down the road with your ticket. It is now in use between Baton Rouge and Lafayette on the Atchafalaya Basin elevated highway...

 

[Pas Tout La]

This is a picture of the system.

 

[kibb]

I travel that route every week and haven't seen it yet.

 

[jmeng]

I see that on facebook once a week. I assume its BS

 

[drumz2129]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/speedtrap.asp

 

[tupperware9mm]

Talked to my state trooper buddy last night,... not true.

 

[Pas Tout La]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/speedtrap.asp

Cool. I think it's pretty bas ass. I know people get all uptight about the whole speeding camera thing, but don't speed and don't worry. Or do like I do...... Once I find out where all the cameras are, I just slow down right there!!

I also noticed the other day coming back from a client's office with my boss, a trooper on the side of I-49 with a radar gun that the radar detector never picked up. Is that a new kind gun or something?

 

[Ritten]

Is that a new kind gun or something?

Brand new!! They just developed it. It reads speed with light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation from a handheld device. Super high-tech stuff.

 

[pangris1]

Damn it. I have a Passport 9500ix.

 

[AustinBR]

Cool. I think it's pretty bas ass. I know people get all uptight about the whole speeding camera thing, but don't speed and don't worry. Or do like I do...... Once I find out where all the cameras are, I just slow down right there!!

I also noticed the other day coming back from a client's office with my boss, a trooper on the side of I-49 with a radar gun that the radar detector never picked up. Is that a new kind gun or something?

He would be using a lidar gun. If your detector doesn't pick up lasers then it wouldn't work. Also, it doesn't send out a constant signal. They must aim and shoot it like a gun. They likely didnt hit the button whilst you drove by.

Damn it. I have a Passport 9500ix.

I have the same one and it works quite well.

 

[themightytimmah]

Unlike radar, it is legal to jam LIDAR guns. Escort makes a shifter that will work with the Passport detectors, typically you just jam the gun until you get down to a reasonable speed then turn it off. On older guns, it just looks like the trooper isn't hitting the right spot to get a reading. Newer guns might pull a jam code. I wouldn't recommend jamming all the way to the gun, you may end up getting a royal chewing out on the side of the road and a ticket for something else (don't ask me how I know).

 

[AustinBR]

Unlike radar, it is legal to jam LIDAR guns. Escort makes a shifter that will work with the Passport detectors, typically you just jam the gun until you get down to a reasonable speed then turn it off. On older guns, it just looks like the trooper isn't hitting the right spot to get a reading. Newer guns might pull a jam code. I wouldn't recommend jamming all the way to the gun, you may end up getting a royal chewing out on the side of the road and a ticket for something else (don't ask me how I know).

I don't think radar jammers are illegal in Louisiana. I did some research on lidar and jammers and there was a lot of evidence pointing out that they are often multi thousand dollar pieces of junk. Driving smart with a detector is the way to go. Smart and safe.

 

[Barry J]

I don't think radar jammers are illegal in Louisiana. I did some research on lidar and jammers and there was a lot of evidence pointing out that they are often multi thousand dollar pieces of junk. Driving smart with a detector is the way to go. Smart and safe.

If a unit sends out a radar signal to jam a radar, it is illegal. You need a license from the FCC to emit radar waves. And before anyone asks, when I was a trooper, I carried a copy of the states license from the FCC.

 

[Leadfoot]

Why not just drive the limit and not worry?

MOST officers will give you 10-15 over anyway.

 

[whitjct]

Radar jammers are illegal..it's a federal law

Laser jammers are legal

 

[TomTerrific]

Brand new!! They just developed it. It reads speed with light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation from a handheld device. Super high-tech stuff.

Do you have a url where I could get more info on it, particularly how it works?

 

[Ritten]

Do you have a url where I could get more info on it, particularly how it works?

Sure...

http://www.hamarlaser.com/more-info/howitworks

 

[TomTerrific]

Sure...

http://www.hamarlaser.com/more-info/howitworks

Thanks, but it didn't address speed detectors.

I understand how lasers work and how radar/laser guns work. I was curious how this need breed works.

 

[Ritten]

Thanks, but it didn't address speed detectors.

I understand how lasers work and how radar/laser guns work. I was curious how this need breed works.

I think you completely missed the sarcasm in my post that the "brand new" technology of L.A.S.E.R. is not actually brand new. It won't show up on a radar detector though so the OP was asking if the "radar gun" was some new kind of device. It was a laser speed detector. There is no new breed.

 

[jmcrawf1]