Beware in Palmdale and Lancaster: Radar

[Kyras]

Going to Willow Springs Raceway or Mammoth?

Last Thursday, Feb. 22, there was a cover story in the Antelope Valley Press about the CHP nailing 45 motorists at 85 mph and faster, in two hours, "using a new device that sends out a laser beam rather than radar waves to measure speed." The newpaper photo shows a CHP standing on the Avenue N overpass, aiming the "lidar" at motorists below him on the 14 freeway.

It says, "From the Avenue N overpass between 9 and 11 a.m., Officer Jason Peavy aimed the gunlike lidar device--the name is an acronym for "light detections and ranging"--at vehicles heading north, while five officers in CHP cruisers chased after suspected speeders to pull them over and write them tickets."

Beware in Palmdale and Lancaster on the 14 freeway.

 

[akira3d]

Another disconcerting thing, the speed measuring towers in Olancha (on the way to Mammoth) no longer trigger my radar detector, but are clearly indicating my speed.

 

[octechgeek]

They are also using that "lidar" along the 405 fwy. Kind of a good thing..i'm gettin really sick of those raised trucks speeding as if they have control...one sudden move and they flip over like dominos.

 

[Hal_396]

http://www.speedtrap.org would be a good place to post that info also.

 

[vespabob]

in case you didn't know , the Ave N is used by the CHP as a training area for all sorts of stuff like thaat. it's one of the place they teach "pacing" as they shoot down the ramp on you...DANGER WILL ROBINSON!