Is using of radar detector in Florida legal? What states forbid using it?
916216
Radar detectors are banned in Virginia.\nRadar detectors and radar jammers are illegal in the District of Columbia.\nRadar jammers are illegal in Oklahoma, but radar detectors are legal.\nIn New York, radar detectors are illegal for commercial vehicles over 18,000lbs.\nIn IIlinois, radar detectors are only regulated in commercial vehicles.
460941
From what I understand and have been told by people who have been charged with it the state to avoid would be Nevada.They have a zero tolerance law and they can convict you for that.That is the only place that I have heard of.
681738
Not unless you have radar absorbing paint which the government would love to have too.  I was picked up on a 10 speed bike trailing all kinds of foil to mask me but I was still picked up and clocked by police radar gun.  If you find a way post it.  I want to know that trick.  You can overload them with powerful transmitters, the radar reads false speed like 200mph which is not reliable for court,especially when I drive a 1972 VW bug, but they are illegal.  Plans on Internet and part from Radio Shack
649390
If you have a device that is sensitive to the frequencies used by cellular phones, then, yes, you can detect them with some degree of accuracy, as long as the phone is on.\n\nTry a device like http://www.globalgadgetuk.com/detector.htm, or do a search for cell phone detector (I'm not sure how legal these are in the US). They'll also give you some cell phone jammers, although jammers are illegal in the USA
211329
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1025417
Funny you mention that. The police chief of Chiago already wants cameras in the homes of felons. Yes we are entering a total police state here in the USA. There are also directional mics in the public areas with those cameras to listen in on your conversations. The justification for these mics is classic disinfo. I have heard that the mics are to triangulate gun shots, yeah they can do that, but mostly they are here to spy on us. But don't just worry about the cameras. State governments are implementing RFID technology into your cars registration stickers. And there are even plans on making a system like Onstar mandatory so basically you will have to "check in" with your state government in some way before you can even drive your car! It is really beyond 1984 what is being set up here in the US, and the national news will NOT tell you its happening.
855420
I don't know of any drawbacks of having a radar. I am the Skywarn Coordinator in my City and I have a radar on my computer to give a more early warning for severe weather.\n\nI see what the NWS is seeing. When they spot something severe, it goes through a chain. Like from them to the broadcast media and so on, till it gets to you or your city to turn on their warning system.\n\nWhen I see it on radar, it comes straight from me to the city and they turn on the warning system. Its a good 2-4 min earily warning for us.
427354
Go to court and plead guilty.  I have been to court many times and have seen people try to prove that the radar gun is not calibrated properly...All I have to say is good luck.  Again, plead guilty and ask for leniency.  Especially if it is your first offense.  In MD, the have what is called probation before justice where the fine is reduced by half and no points are given towards your driving record.  Again, I have never been screwed by going to court and pleading guilty, always had the fine reduced and points reduced or eliminated.  Never just pay the fine.  I hope that is what you were asking.  To get out of a speeding ticket, just apologize and ask if there is any way they can cut you a break.  I've gotten out of a handful of tickets with just a warning by being respectful to the officer.
455230
There is not software.  There is hardware in development that utilizes a form of radar that allows airport screeners to "see" under a person's clothing.\n\nThe system is so detailed that they currently have not yet deployed the system due to the ability to see "everything" and there is a fear of reprisial from the public with screeners viewing the "privates".
694223
I had a Colorado license, and when I moved to Florida i didn't have to take a test. It wont still be effective.. they deactivate one when they activate another. You just need to go in and apply for a new license. It's that simple.
850031
I can give you a starting point and you can decide how much research you want to do. Minneapolis Minnesota installed the same system. It ran for about a year before someone appealed the ticket high enough that the cameras had to be turned off. So there is "case law" out there somewhere.
602570
I read this question, chuckled a little, and kept on reading other questions.  \n\nThen I just had to come back.\n\nThe Patriot Act, for the fanatics out there, has absolutely nothing to do with this question or situation.  If the cop in this question legally searched the car, he did so based on law much, MUCH older than the Patriot Act.  The Patriot Act does not give law enforcement "free reign in the search and seizure of private citizens' personal property at any time" though I know it's a lot more fun to believe that garbage and spread it around.\n\nAs for the actual question you're asking, it's not possible to give you an answer without knowing more details.  If the cop had probable cause to believe it was there (generally by smelling it, or maybe seeing a roach in the ashtray), or received consent from your friend (people give consent all the time when it's not in their best interest to do so), then the search is perfectly legal.\n\nA broken tail light, at least in California, might very well still work...but if white light is emitted, it's just as illegal as if it didn't work at all.  Evidently, it's the same in Texas.\n\nAnd if the search is determined by the court to be unlawful, then of course your friend can have the charge thrown out.\n\nCops can't search a vehicle just because they "think something is wrong"...we almost always have to have probable cause, and just "thinking" something isn't the same as having probable cause.\n\nFederal law (to my knowledge) does not require a search warrant to search a car, but the US Constitution provides that searches conducted without a warrant are presumptively unlawful.  However, Courts (to include the Supreme Court) routinely permit certain types of searches to be conducted without search warrants and have for dozens of years.\n\nYour friend certainly should seek the advice of an attorney, but I haven't ever heard the information about public defenders being top of their class....strikes me as a little hard to believe in some cases.
51986
Are you referring to millimeter wave radar? I'm not familiar with any system that includes lasers.\n\nMillimeter wave radar is just radar of a particular band (somewhere between 30 GHz and 300 GHz). Some applications include cloud radar to detect the tops and bottoms of clouds; using doppler techniques to detect vertical movement within a cloud; and adaptive cruise control in cars to maintain a pre-set distance.
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its called a police scanner... you can access any police, fire, EMS, or private channels with it. you need an antenna which has to be secured to the exterior of your vehicle (assuming you want it for a car). police scanners allow a person to only listen... you aren't allowed to speak on these channels, or access them in any way unless you have fire department/ police department credentials. you can access your local fire/ police websites and it will tell you what channel they are broadcasting at. although a heads up... if you dont understand police and fire radio code then it is pointless to get a radio. you can get a small scanner at radio shack, or other electronic stores for about 150 dollars. there are only a few that are commercially available to the general public, and are usually in the range from 100 to 400 dollars. your most basic scanner will be able to do anything you can need though, because it provides access to hundreds of channels, and will give you a chance to select your favorite channels.
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There are two kinds of doppler radar. One is the radar cops use to tell if you are speeding. The waves come out of the radar gun and bounce off your car. Depending on whether your car is moving toward the radar or away, it either adds a little energy to the waves or takes a little away. This changes the frequency (how many waves per second.) The radar gun detects the reflected waves coming back (like an echo) and calculates the speed based on the difference between the original frequency and the frequency when it returns changed. The radar gun displays a number, and that's how fast you are going. They are very accurate.\n\nDoppler weather radar works in a similar way, but it is measuring the speed of the clouds. The faster the clouds move, it generally means the heavier the rain is (also for violent thunderstorms and tornados.) The radar picks up the movement of the clouds, because just like the metal in your car, they reflect some of the microwaves that the radar set puts out. Same as the speed radar, they can tell whether the storm is moving toward the radar or away from it, and how fast. A computer assigns each speed value a different color and that is the radar map you see on the news channel. It shows the clouds all moving at slightly different speeds, with the fastest ones being the most dangerous (dump the most rain, generate the most lightning, cause the most wind damage.)\n\nProblems with it. If you are not moving toward the cop car or away from it, they can't tell how fast you are moving. The radar can't tell anything about something moving at a right angle to the radar beam. The waves come out in a fairly tight beam, like a searchlight, only invisible. The object has to stay in the beam for the radar system to recognize the waves that are coming back. In the case of an object moving across the beam, the waves return with their frequency unchanged, meaning that it is not moving closer toward or further away from the radar, then it moves out of the beam and the radar doesn't know it is there any more. It does not 'see' it.  That's why it can't tell how fast that item is moving. \n\nI think that weather radar usually has several stations throughout an area, or the radar beam sweeps across the area like a searchlight, so it can show several overlapping pictures of the same storm. Also, if it is just an air mass (no clouds) the radar can't 'see' it, because the radar waves go through the air. Air is transparent to radar, just like it is to light.\n\nI haven't said anything about how the radar set generates microwaves, or about how military stealth jets are less visible to radar, that would be another whole long topic. I think you wanted to know how the radar works in relation to the outside world, not how it works inside. I hope this helps.
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In public, without using electronics? No.\n\nIf you are wiretapping or using other electronic devices, probably.  If you provide more details, you might get more specific help.\n\n(The laws in question will probably be Tennessee, but federal law may or may not be implicated.)
401911
first off at that speed you were not caught by a radar gun, seems to me you were caught with vascar. I would fight it