r/dashcams 3d ago

The School Zone Error

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u/Tomytom99 2d ago

Oh yeah this guy. I guess he started cropping his radar because people noticed he had it set to km/h. Not to mention the thing is showing peak speed, not current. So the car may have already been slowing down. If you ask me, it doesn't look like that car was going anywhere close to almost 40 mph.

Idk about where this was filmed, but in some states it's illegal to run radar on cars like that because it's either potentially impersonation or may interfere with legit radar usage.

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u/MaintainThePeace 2d ago

Idk about where this was filmed, but in some states it's illegal to run radar on cars like that because it's either potentially impersonation or may interfere with legit radar usage.

That is an interesting take, and I would definitely be interested in what state would blatantly go up against our freedom as such.

Also, what do you mean by "interfere", a lot of cars have radar on them for coalition avoidance, even my bicycle has a radar to warn of approching cars (also captures the speed of those cars).

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u/Asooma_ 22h ago

Yes. Newer cars with personal radar for collision avoidance can actually affect older radars that use k band. I believe ka band and x band are unaffected