RE: Radar alert

["Mike Miller" <JoMi@msn.com>]

Why wouldn't the highly reflective surface of the rear view mirror do the same 
thing as a CD hanging there?

mike miller

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From: 	owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net on behalf of Alexei M Voloshin
Sent: 	Friday, October 18, 1996 10:19 AM
To: 	Lyndon Camidge M&L-KB
Cc: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net; prl
Subject: 	Re: Radar alert 

A friend of mine living in Germany tells me that down there speed cameras 
are with flashes. So people hand CDs on their rear-view mirrors and the 
highly reflective surface of a CD blinds the cameras using their own flash.

Alex

On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Lyndon Camidge M&L-KB wrote:

> All US,
> 	Now You no how We in the UK have to suffer, over Here they are called 
> "GATSO" Speed Cameras (Gatso is the Manufacturer) and at the moment they 
> are everywhere and more and more are cropping up by the day, if I visit a 
> friend who only lives 2.5 miles away I go Past four of the nasty things, 
> all I can say is thank God for RADAR detectors.
> 
> 
> Lyndon Camidge
> 
> P.S. They also Use a similar system on Traffic Lights to stop You 
> shooting through on RED !
>