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These are used in Australia and have speed cameras installed. The police use private companies to do this. This one was parked in a culvert. Great driver
 

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That's illegal here. The car has to be marked as a police vehicle. However, I passed a State Police trooper this afternoon and he was standing off the road with his radar gun. His vehicle was hidden behind the overpass. They also have been known to skirt the law by having a motorcycle cop hiding behind an ordinary pickup truck on the shoulder.
 
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Radars and lasers no longer concern me, I've invested in the best counter measures and they haven't let me down even once.
 
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Nope. I have Laser Interceptor Quad (two heads on the front and two heads on the rear) and I have an Escort Passport 9500ix mounted under my rearview mirror. Both those cost me a total of $1500.

You might think it's crazy to spend that much but it is some of the best counter measure gear on the market, it's also saved me from getting tickets more than 20 times (in one year) which would've cost me at least $2000 and a suspended license.
 
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Speed cameras also are used by some cities in Oregon but I don't believe that the State Police (highway patrol) uses them. No problem - I just stay within the speed limit, or on highways within their tolerance level for being slightly over the limit. In California the Highway Patrol even uses airplanes in some places, especially along major highways including Interstates.
 
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At least you didn't get any points. I got nailed a couple of times in south Florida, once in port st Lucie and once in west Palm. $600 plus down the drain!

If I had my current equipment back then I would've been saved for sure.

It's a hefty initial investment but it pays off pretty quick.
 
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What bothers me - at least in Chicago - is the red light cameras. When Chicago started putting those everywhere, they shortened the time of the yellow light to the shortest time allowed by law. Yet they still pretend it's about safety. If it was about safety, there are many more effective measures.

-d
 
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My Passport 9500ix warns me about speed cameras, red light cameras, and speed traps.
 
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I would love one of those Passport devices!, not sure if Customs would allow it into the country tho, they are banned (government does not like people evading their speeding tax).

you guys have it easy in the US, we have mobile units, which is what the OP posted a pic of, fixed gantry units over the highways (usually on the back side of the overpass, 1 per lane) and police manned units (highway patrol)

The mobile and fixed units are run by a private corporation and are a billion dollar industry!.

we also have red light speed cameras (they get you going through under any light condition, so don't plant that foot to beat the yellow) and its now 'legal' for Vic Police to put their units at the bottom of a hill, or hide them in the bushes.

so yeh, don't come to Aus if you want a relaxing driving holiday, its a minefield out there!.
 
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Customs has nothing to do with enforcing the traffic laws in my opinion (that's why they probably won't even know it's not legal). I don't think you would have a problem if you have it shipped to you.
 
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From experience, a country's customs has a list of items which are banned for various reasons including by law enforcement agencies, and can and will open packages which are posted for inspection and possible seizure. But I don't know whether that applies to items shipped via UPS or other courier services . . . .
 
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Yeh if its maked as consumer electronics it will just look like a modem or DTV box when it goes under the scanner.

but they do work in strange ways, I wanted a couple of Pic rails for a rifle, tried to import via China, No way, flagged by ebay saying I needed permission to import as weapons parts. Found an ebay store for fishing and hunting/outdoorsman supplies, bought them no problems since they were made locally!. go figure.

Is the Passport system updated via user data or is it just a radar/laser detector?. problem would be that if nobody uses them here, I would not get 'maps' of camera locations to update it with?
 
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Is the Passport system updated via user data or is it just a radar/laser detector?. problem would be that if nobody uses them here, I would not get 'maps' of camera locations to update it with?
As far as I know it uses user data and databases that escort collects (not sure where they get the info). You can also manually mark locations.
It will also mute false alarms (alarm systems, garage doors, etc) by remembering them via gps location once it detects them in the same spot more than once.

Apparently they are for sale in Australia and NZ, follow this link http://neltronics.com.au/products/escort-9500ixi-safety-radar-detector/
From what I read on their website, they are preloaded with a database for the Australian market, you'd have to ask them how you can get updates.
 
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Thanks for the link!, looks like they sell them under the notion that the buyer only uses them where legal to do so. I have been told that Police will literally rip it off your dash if they catch you with one in Victoria. making it a concealed embedded system would be my project. if it was not so expensive I would buy one and reverse engineer it, put a discrete LCD display and alarm along the bottom of the dash cluster.

It would be legal to own one as a "ornament" in Vic tho, just don't get caught using it. kinda like an old fighter jet radar unit I have,. legal to own as a display item, but don't dare operate it or publish its internal functionality!
 
#20 ·
Escort sells a model that can be stealth mounted.
 
#21 ·
NYC has had red light camers for a while now. They have also added speed cameras. I have been caught with a speed camera once because i didnt know the location of it. The location is right off the highway exit. So you have to go from 60 mph to 30mph.

What stumps me the most is that NYC hired another company that is based in a different state. The company who sends the ticket are also the ones who decide if a person broke the law.
 
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What stumps me the most is that NYC hired another company that is based in a different state.
It so screwed up.

Did you know that most of our ocean harbors and many of our toll-ways are owned or managed by foreign companies?

The company who sends the ticket are also the ones who decide if a person broke the law.
In court? Does a company official represent the court in person? Regardless, there's got to be a way to bust that regulation.
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In Arizona it was decided that the individual cities could not put up speed cameras on the freeways, that had to be done by the state (makes sense because the Freeways are all patrolled by the highway patrol), they claimed it was for safety. The ticket information was never forwarded to insurance companies and usually did not put points on your license, so it was not a serious deterrent to speeding, after a couple of years they announced that because it was not bringing in the revenues they wanted to see, they were terminating the contract with the speed camera company.

Red light and speed cams are somewhat common, they seem to have replaced the mobile photo radar vans, at least I have not seen one in a few years.

Rob in Az
 
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