Vascar?

[weaselnoze]

what is it?  maybe TPR5699 you would know?  im talking about a means of clocking someones speed.  i think u know where im going with it..

[cobalt135]

http://www.vascarplus.com/Pages/How_it_works.htm Explains a little bit.

[Kerry]

I thought this thread was going to be about a new racing organization formed by Vassar students....   :dunno:

[Blueknyt]

problem is. it still relies on Human operation for messurement, the Officer must flip the switches for messurements to be calulated. its really easy to fill up ticket books by preproraming a distance and short timing it a tad.

same thing with stop watches, they are accurate messuring devices without a doubt, but they still only do that by Human control.

now, the best one ive heard of would be SUNpass. the transponder that folks use to prepay tolls here in Florida.  ive heard of folks getting tickets for speeding by getting timed from toll A to toll B,  following the posted speed, there is a limit to how much time it takes to get A-B in best conditions, IE day time, no traffic and instant acelleration and decelleration at speed changes. if you arrive a B sooner, its simple math to figure out the speed and its not Human controled messurement.

[Michael]

Before the advent of speed cameras here in Oz, some states used to use a thing called an amphometer, which measured the time you took to run over two pneumatic tubes on the road, spaced about 50 metres apart.  No guess work there, but it did mean the cops had to be another couple of hundred metres down the road to get the reading and pull you over in time.

[Stephen072774]

There is a big sign when you enter into Virginia from TN on I81 that says "Speed Checked by Vascar" and someone spray painted the V into an N to look like "Speed Checked by Nascar"

Virginia is the only state in the south (that I know of) that uses it.  Atleast there the only ones who advertise using it.

[raylarrabee]

Virginia also has "speed checked by detection devices" signs.  I always found those hilarious.  How else would one check speed (or anything else, for that matter)?

Vascar is essentially a stopwatch built in to a patrol car.  Considering that a caop can simply pace you (without vascar or anything else) to give you a ticket, Vascar is more accurate.  Still lots of potential for human error.

[Michael]

The human error part is not always accidental.
I once got done with just enough over the limit to make a compulsory court appearance.  The charge was 136 in a 100 zone (km/hr remember).  I KNOW the cop was lying- I was actually doing closer to 160.  The guy claimed he followed me for 10 km and my average speed over that time was blah, blah, blah....  I explained to the beak that if the cop was following me as he said, he was doing it with his lights off at 23:00 in fog.  It didn't get me off the charge ($90 and a month suspension- in a state I didn't live in  :lol: ) but it sure made the cop squirm and go red.  Best $90 I ever spent.

[weaselnoze]

thanks guys. with the link and replies i understand what it means