[W126 Coupe] My 560SEL
Axel Wulff
mbcoupes@mbcoupes.com
Tue Jan 18 16:27:05 EST 2005
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<P>The way Virginia and DC has gotten around the FCC verdict is that every radar detector emits a reference beam that the device uses to compare the incoming signals with. The signal is minute in strength and very hard to detect (which explains why the police's radar detector "detectors" are so useless), but it provided enough cover for those states to pretend that radar detectors violate the ban on "emitters".</P>
<P>When I lived in Virginia I was told by a police officer that they caught most radar detector users by simply observing their driving; if they saw someone suddenly hit the brakes near a building with an alarm/a street light/or other false positive signal generator, they knew the driver was using a radar detector and would stop him if they felt like it.<BR><BR><BR>Regards, </P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Axel J. Wulff
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<DIV></DIV>>From: "Michael S Cosby" <michael.cosby@state.co.us>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: mbcoupes@mbcoupes.com
<DIV></DIV>>To: <mbcoupes@mbcoupes.com>, <spell.yy@verizon.net>
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] My 560SEL
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:15:16 -0700
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<DIV></DIV>>I just bought my first SUV, a '96 Blazer with 187000 on it. Because I
<DIV></DIV>>live at 9000 feet, I felt that if anyone had one, I should. So after
<DIV></DIV>>living there 8 years I did it. It still boils down to tires. My wife's
<DIV></DIV>>minivan (fwd) with 4 studded snows get around better than all seasons on
<DIV></DIV>>an SUV. I still gave a 70 Chevy 1/2 ton 4X4 that I would not part with!
<DIV></DIV>> (It just needs posi differentials and disk brakes)
<DIV></DIV>>"In Massachusetts, no trucks are allowed in the left hand high speed
<DIV></DIV>>lane." Does that include pickups? If so, I am glad to live out west.
<DIV></DIV>>Between that and the illegal radar detectors... What I can't understand
<DIV></DIV>>is that years ago the Supreme Court, in a case brought by the FCC, ruled
<DIV></DIV>>that any transmissions passing through your airspace belonged to you.
<DIV></DIV>>So how can they outlaw detectors? Jammers I can understand, but
<DIV></DIV>>detectors? The SOBs.
<DIV></DIV>>I wonder what they would think of a home-made jammer I built as a kid
<DIV></DIV>>consisting of welding rod, a spark plug and wire. They probably
<DIV></DIV>>wouldn't even understand where the transmission was coming from. And if
<DIV></DIV>>you buried a jammer in your car, what could they do? Dismantle it along
<DIV></DIV>>side the road?
<DIV></DIV>>Sorry for the rant!
<DIV></DIV>>Mtnmike
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<DIV></DIV>> >>> spell.yy@verizon.net 01/17/05 07:13PM >>>
<DIV></DIV>>Jonathan:
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<DIV></DIV>>Looks like a high rider went clear over your bumper and directly in
<DIV></DIV>>the
<DIV></DIV>>front. So, either you hit the lady in the rear with your nose down or
<DIV></DIV>>when
<DIV></DIV>>she hit you on the nose she was driving one of those sickly SUV's that
<DIV></DIV>>I
<DIV></DIV>>refer to as 'walls of plywood'. They suck huge amounts of gas,
<DIV></DIV>>endanger
<DIV></DIV>>everyone else on the road in a passenger car and throw off a tax break
<DIV></DIV>>if
<DIV></DIV>>commercially registered. All to what benefit you might ask. My
<DIV></DIV>>answer,
<DIV></DIV>>none that is of any value whatsoever. They burn way too much fuel,
<DIV></DIV>>give the
<DIV></DIV>>majority of owners the false sense of security that somehow they are
<DIV></DIV>>impervious to damage as they blow by in a 1/2 foot of snow only to
<DIV></DIV>>roll-over
<DIV></DIV>>somewhere up ahead.
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<DIV></DIV>>In Massachusetts, no trucks are allowed in the left hand high speed
<DIV></DIV>>lane.
<DIV></DIV>>I've asked the legislature to outlaw SUV's from this lane as well.
<DIV></DIV>>They
<DIV></DIV>>leave you vulnerable to a nasty accident if you drive behind there
<DIV></DIV>>'wall of
<DIV></DIV>>plywood' and they throw up every piece of road debris imaginable
<DIV></DIV>>because of
<DIV></DIV>>the lift on the chassis exposing huge amounts of tire tread similar to
<DIV></DIV>>trucks which are required to operate with wheel flaps but, not the
<DIV></DIV>>SUV.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>I have my own personal use of the English language that morphs the
<DIV></DIV>>meaning
<DIV></DIV>>of S U V.
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<DIV></DIV>>Too bad, that's a beautiful MB. Good luck.
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<DIV></DIV>>Dick
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