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From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell)
Subject: Re: Laser tactics question (was Re: BEL XKR-VII Still Any Good?)
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:52:45 GMT

smsriv@melkor.lerc.nasa.gov (Rakesh Srivastava) writes:

>One of the favourite ways of the cops with laser thatI have seen
>here in Cleveland is to be up on the  overhead passes, such as road
>bridges etc. and clock you as you go underneath it and come out
>on the other side. They zap your behind. By the time you are able to

    Wow, that should give you quite a bit of leeway from the cosine
error at that high of an angle, shouldn't it?  How much less would that
make one's speed read at, say, 65mph?

--
   Tim Russell                 Omaha, NE              trussell@unomaha.edu
      "Hate is not a family value.  Boycott Colorado." - Melinda Shore
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: bodie@plains (Justin M. Bodie)
Subject: Re: Driving w/ dome light on?
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 05:30:50 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network
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DEVILBISS@OCTAVE.LARC.NASA.GOV (Spooner) writes:
: Question:  Is it illegal to drive with your dome light on?  

Nah.  Why would you want to drive with your dome light on, anyways?  I
guess I switch it on while changing tapes, but never did it occur to me
that it would be illegal.

Well, don't be paranoid about it.  It can't be illegal, and I would sure
like someone to pull me over for having my dome light on!

Bye,
Justin :)


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From: DEVILBISS@OCTAVE.LARC.NASA.GOV (Spooner)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Driving w/ dome light on?
Date: 20 Nov 1992 14:52:57 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Reply-To: DEVILBISS@OCTAVE.LARC.NASA.GOV
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Question:  Is it illegal to drive with your dome light on?  

Answer:  ??

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From: milo@dorm.rutgers.edu (james mielo)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: BEL XKR-VII Still Any Good?
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:42:37 GMT
Followup-To: rec.autos.driving,rec.autos
Organization: rutgers university

In article <1992Nov17.190537.2647@cas.org>, cro69@cas.org wrote:
> 
> As the title states, I have a fully functional BEL XKR-VII radar detector
> that I bought a few years back.  Since I started reading this rec.autos.
> driving, I've noticed discussions of many newer models which make me think
> my old trusty may not be as able to detect newer radar bands the cops are
> using (forget LIDAR even!).

        I assume it only has K and X bands. The new problems come from the
stalker and photoradar. Both opperate on Ka. Only problem is Ka is alot
wider than the ranges of X and K. The original  Ka detectors just detected
a small range of Ka ( they just covered photoradar) but the stalker can
operate all over the range. Hence, the new wide band Ka detectors were
created. It seems the stalker is on a roll along with the new Lidar. NJ
picked up a few of the Lidar units and are still trying them out. It seems
the photoradar in NJ has been junked. There were liability problems (who do
you bill the owner or the driver?)
     I would recommend getting a new wideband detector. I was going to get
a Valentine 1 but they are backodered until next march or so. I finally
decided on the passport. Ordered it in Sept, got it yesterday. I like the
added insurance. I also got a lidar detactor ( a recent report in Car&
Driver suggests thay may not be worth it but I figure I'd like to at least
know they got me and weren't making up numbers)
     K& X are still the largest majority of radar units so you should be
safe with what you got for now


James Mielo
Rutgers College of Pharmacy '94
milo@dorm.rutgers.edu

 owner of a broken 1990 GTi 8v
From: achar@ecn.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Driving with parking lights only
Date: 23 Nov 92 06:00:41 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <24042@galaxy.ucr.edu>, judson@watserv.ucr.edu (Mike Judson) writes:
|> Why do people insist on driving only with parking lights on when it is dusk?
|> Why don't they just turn on their headlights?  Beside the fact that it is
|> illegal in many states, it doesn't make it that much easier to see the car.
|> Do people think that they are saving their headlights by only turning on
|> their parking lights when it is dusk?  Furthermore, they are called parking
|> lights and as such should be used for that purpose, not for driving.  Just
|> turn those damn headlights on!!!

Some of the cars have the headlights and the parking light switch next to each 
other. Sometimes it is the same switch, push it on the right, you have parking
lights, push it on the left and you have headlights. It is very easy to flip 
on the wrong lights in such a case.

Some people claim it is cool to drive with the parking lights on. Cool? When
you are in danger yourself and are a hazard and menace to the others? 

Achar.
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Driving and old age (was Re: Night vision)
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:12:00 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.198
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

It takes all kinds.

Some old folks discreetly figure out on their own that their skills
ain't what they used to be.  My father, an outstanding and much-traveled
driver who used to race a little back before it was a big deal, quietly 
gave up voluntary night driving towards the end.  My father-in-law, a 
multi-million-mile man from his sales days, abandoned most of his own 
mechanicking after his wife bought a new car and forbade him to open 
the hood.  (Her exasperation, however, was due in large part to his case 
of BRES -- Bored Retired Engineer Syndrome -- an incurable ailment that 
makes it hard for idle tools and properly functioning machinery to live
together in peace. :)  He seems to have also decided that the sides of 
his Eldorado were losing too much paint, and drives it much less these days.

Interestingly, she's about his age and her driving skills are 
undiminshed.  In fact, I doubt many of the young bucks around the
county can keep up with her, at least on the roads she knows well.

MY mother doesn't have anything physically wrong with her that
would cause bad driving, but she's hardly less dangerous now than
she was in her 50s when she started driving.  Like a lot of people
of any age, she is kinesthetically impaired and machinery-deficient,
viewing the car mostly as a conversation pit.  Not long ago she
hit the 3' x 3' fieldstone cornerpiece at the end of the driveway
so hard that it knocked apart most of the mortar joints, doing a
few hundred dollars' worth of damage to the car in the process. 
Later that day she came out of the store, noticed that the bumper
and fender were ruined, and thought the car had been the victim of 
a hit-and-run driver in the parking lot.  She is at best an acceptable
driver and at worst a ballistic object.  And she needs wheels.  And
there's not one thing wrong with her that an eye test (probably even
a typical American road test) would screen out.

One day I was standing in line at a DMV office in New Mexico.  Ahead
of me was an old woman taking the eye test.  She failed, badly, when
her grandson was instructed to stand at the other side of the room so
he couldn't coach her through it.

So there you are: five different people, five problems, five solutions.

Incidentally, various organizations (motor clubs and, I think, AARP)
have started offering "mature driver" safety programs designed to
brush up skills, refresh memories about the rules of the road, and,
in general, diplomatically convey the idea that the older parties 
ought to periodically take the measure of their remaining skills and
adjust their driving accordingly.  Mom took such a course and was
talking about it for weeks.  Worth looking into.

Good luck,
--Joe
"Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
From: hovnania@iftccu.boeing.com (Paul Hovnanian)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Looking for LIDAR info.
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:59:09 GMT
Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group

I am searching for technical data on LIDAR. This includes the different brands,
their operating parameters, such as wavelength, pulse rise time, duration, etc.
If anyone has this info. or knows where I might get an in-depth description
of them, please e-mail me. Thanx.




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Newsgroups: rec.autos
From: dbr2@cec2.wustl.edu (Dhruva Bollam Reddy)
Subject: Re: Stick VS Auto.
Keywords: HOW STUPID CAN A MAN BE
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:31:33 GMT

Hell no!
From: tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill)
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: CONSUMER REPORTS
Date: 19 Nov 1992 01:09:08 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: cairo

I'm not a CR basher.  We subscribe to CR and find their auto reports
helpful, if somewhat parochial and middle-of-the-road.  Some examples:

1.  The Mazda Navajo is "more reliable than average" while the Ford
Explorer has "average reliability", despite the fact that they are the
same vehicle, made at the same factory.  How could this be?

2.  CR always complains about spare tires underneath the rear of a car,
because "your hands get dirty".  As someone who has unloaded a trunk
full of camping gear in the poring rain to get out a spare, I'd say
under the car is the best place for a spare tire.  Besides, who ever
had clean hands after changing a tire?

3.  This month's report on sport utility vehicles misses an important
point about off-road driving: low range.  As someone who spends lots of
time on dirt roads, I can say that low range is more important than 4WD
under most conditions.  CR didn't say anything, and from what I could
see in the pictures, the Montero didn't even have low range, and it was
missing in Jeep Quadratrack.  Anyway, the SUV report was obviously done
by somebody who never goes off-road.

4.  I hate automatic and CR hardly ever tests manual transmissions.

Newsgroups: rec.autos
From: greg@cherokee.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz)
Subject: Re: Hot rods & clunkers
Reply-To: greg@cherokee.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz)
Organization: Dazix, An Intergraph Company
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:16:50 GMT

> > > ... *not* equating smoke-belchers with hod-rods.

> > That is fine and dandy if you see a distinction.  The thing that 
> > scares me is that _most_ environmentalists don't!

> The govt. does not distinguish between the belchers and the 
> rods/restored cars.

It has been my observation that Hot Rodders / Restorers don't seem to
be able to see teh distinction either.

When a Hot Rodder hears 'Smoke Belcher' or 'Clunker' they seem to
see a sparkling Candy Apple Red 1973 SD Trans Am (or car of your 
choice - I just happen to like those) rather than some old rusted heap.  

True eco-nazis see *all* cars as Smoke Belchers, et al.  
Evil.  Bad.  [blah] [blah]  [blah] 

When they see voluntary buying program, they think mandatory confiscation.
Therefore the program is Evil.  Bad.  [blah] [blah]  [blah]
From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor)
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: How to remove tinted window film
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:24:47 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson.
              Any opinions expressed are strictly those of the
              user and not necessarily those of Ericsson.

In article <7031@dove.nist.gov> keys@starchild.ncsl.nist.gov (Lawrence B. Keys) writes:
>From: keys@starchild.ncsl.nist.gov (Lawrence B. Keys)
>Subject: Re: How to remove tinted window film
>Date: 20 Nov 92 14:07:45 GMT

>In article <1992Nov19.225433.2742@medtron.medtronic.com> barham@medtronic.COM writes:
>>Does anyone out there have any tips for easily removing tinted window film
>>from glass windows?  I have used a razor blade to scrape it off, but it is
>>a very slow process this way.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Bill Barham      Medtronic Micro-Rel, CAE/CAD Support  602-921-6439
>>                 email  barham@urel.medtronic.com

>I had my windows tinted recently.  Before they began applying the tint
>i asked the installer if the tint could be removed later and how.  I was
>told that the tint could in fact be easily removed on all except the rear
>window (because of the defroster) using a razor blade and a high temperature
>heat gun.

I suppose a hair dryer would work nicely?
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Newsgroups: rec.autos
From: stxtnt@rs733.GSFC.NASA.Gov (Nigel Tzeng)
Subject: Re: Whining about buying American cars
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md, USA
	<1992Nov18.182548.15901@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:47:37 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.182548.15901@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> vjd11@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (virgil.j.duncan) writes:

[lots o stuff deleted]

>80% true. Do not forget you are part of this American economy; if some of it
>shrinks or folds YOU will pay more taxes for the people who get unemployed.
>For comparable products I prefer my money to go and put food on some
>kid from Detroit table rather than be used somewhere else, even if this
>money buys US government debt, or it is re-invested here.

Ahhh...but buying a car that goes thorugh the Port of Balitmore puts
food on the table of a Marylander not somebody in Detroit...so is it
okay for me to buy a foreign car that stimulates local economy at the
detriment to some other state?  I'm simply applying patriotism to a
much more tighter scale...

>Jeff!
>You work for Motorola - Try to think a minute what will happen to your
>life if guys like me will not consider first buying from you
>cellular systems, computer systems and components.
>Even in the service sector your job won't last too long!!

Poor choice in analogy.  Motorola sells things because it makes some
of the arguably best products around...not because someone decides to
pry open their computer to figure out what percentage of chips were
made in the US.  

>If you single and no responsibilities, obviously no big deal - you move from
>coast to coast, but if you are not try to think of it.
>A reliable car is good to have but you also have to think on people
>beyond your immediate family and friends.

Um...gee...how about if the big three shifts some engineers from their
military divisions to their auto divisions and design some better
cars.  We're getting killed not on the production line but on the CAD
machines...and the board room.  And for heaven sakes can't GM hire decent
human factor engineers?

I can't quite justify buying a car for $15,000+ and not getting
exactly what I want.  They want that much of my money they bloody well
better earn it...

>virgil duncan

Nigel

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Newsgroups: rec.autos
From: harling@miki.pictel.com (Dan Harling)
Subject: Re: How To Drive the RIGHT way!
Organization: PictureTel Corporation
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:32:46 GMT

In article <32974@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> jcao@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Jingbin Cao ~{2\>01r~}) writes:
>When you are approaching a car which is waiting for you at a stop
>sign, bark.

       /
Woof.  8=b
       \
____________________________________________________________________________
Daniel A. Harling                        (harling@pictel.com)
PictureTel Corp.             Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of
Peabody, MA  01960                 PictureTel, but they ought to be!
Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
Date: Tuesday, 17 Nov 1992 09:12:58 CET
From: <SROWELL@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: FLAME! Only a Manual!
 <1992Nov5.063944.1@dac.mdcbbs.com> <1dck4tINNqj3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
 <1992Nov8.211005.10020@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> <5891@balrog.ctron.com>
 <1683@rwja.umdnj.edu>

Who cares?

Quite frankly I don't give a rat's diddly what kind of car the guy next
to me drives as long as he is in control. It is totally irrelevant to me
what sort of transmission he has in his car (and should be to everyone else).

(and I'm not going to say what I have in my car!.... :-}

Simon

DISCLAIMER: My opinions are not those of the European Space Agency, but I
            expect they'd agree with me!
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: Street Sleepere
Date: 20 Nov 1992 13:46 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.198
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

> 1992 300 hp LT-1 350 in a Caprice Wagon?

Yeah, but then some wiseacres from states that don't have smog 
checks would attempt to trump you with a 427 side-oiler in a 
Crown Vic and a 426 Hemi in a Plymouth Sundance.  :)

Joe "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'TORQUE'? I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO MAKE
OUT A WORD YOU SAID SINCE THE WINDSHIELD BLEW OUT" Chew
From: paul@howtek.UUCP (Paul Rothenberg)
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: FOR SALE
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 10:47:30 EST
Organization: Howtek, Inc.
Reply-To: paul@howtek.UUCP (Paul Rothenberg)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1

Nashua, NH Area:

1991 Chevrolet Beretta GT
	
	* Black ext./black int.
	* Automatic transmission
	* Air conditioning
	* Power windows/door locks
	* Power brakes
	* Cruise control
	* Tilt steering
	* Cassette
	* Under 45K highway miles.

	>>> $11,500

I am posting this for a friend. I've driven in the car and can attest
that it is in top notch condition. It's a looker.  

He wants to sell it so he can by a Jeep Wrangler.

If you are interested, contact George at (603) 886-1233 after 6pm.

===============================================
Paul M. Rothenberg

REPLY TO: paul@howtek.uucp
Newsgroups: rec.autos
From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast)
Subject: Re: Fast Japanese Sports Cars
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:09:54 GMT

In article <1992Nov21.220007.25756@csi.uottawa.ca> kiisaka@csi.uottawa.ca (Ken Iisaka (the mad pianist)) writes:
>Oh, shut up and get a Honda NSX.  End of discussion.
                       ^^^^^^^^^

	If you're gonna spend that much, wait a while and get a Viper.


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Newsgroups: rec.autos
From: thos@suite.sw.oz.au (Thomas Cohen)
Subject: Re: shoud there be two different licences
Organization: Softway Pty Ltd
Date: 15 Nov 92 21:24:44 GMT

In <15458@auspex-gw.auspex.com> tpickett@auspex.com (Tom Pickett) writes:

>While we're at it, maybe we should also license bike riders, skateboarders,
>and every one else whatever they are doing.  There are all kinds of 
>things the government has neglected to regulate and license.  And
>remember, if you're licensed, what you're doing is no longer a right,
>it is a privilege granted by our benevolent government.

Damn right.

>My question is:

>Why should they license a person for a manual transmission?

Why should they license people to drive at all? Or fly, or whatever?
Because, whether or not you like it, driving a car is a privilege,
granted by the government. It allows you to drive a vehicle, that
can cause enormous damage if used improperly. Driving a manual
is not a difficult trick to learn, and the sooner people learn it
in their driving experiences, the less difficult it is.

Don't you have different grades of licences over there? Here, I 
can drive any truck as long as it is not articulated (or not towing
a pole trailer longer than 6 metres) - would you prefer that anyone
could do such a thing? I would just see it as a different grade of
license, with all the reasons behind it for the other grades of
license - you can be a menace to others if you're not used to driving
a manual.

Personally speaking, all my learning was on a manual, and I was
lucky enough to do my initial driving up and down the driveway
until I didn't really have to think about shifting. 
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Newsgroups: rec.autos
From: clee@praha.jpl.nasa.gov (Chang Lee)
Subject: Saturn with bad transmission: story continues
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:26:06 GMT

About a week ago, I posted about my brand new SL2 needing a new transmission.
Well, the car finally came out of the shop last Thursday.  It ran fine, and
I was again relatively happy.  The feeling lasted till Sunday morning.  
That's when I found the big puddle of automatic transmission fluid on the 
garage floor.

The dealer has agreed to a car exchange; I'm driving home another SL2
tonight.

Robert
clee@praha.jpl.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: rec.autos
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik)
Subject: Re: Leather Seats
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 19:22:49 GMT

In article 15522@auspex-gw.auspex.com, tpickett@auspex.com (Tom Pickett) writes:
>In article <1992Nov13.224757.10765@viewlogic.com>, brad@buck.viewlogic.com 
>(Bradford Kellogg) writes:
>> A porch with a full leather interior? Gee, the house I grew up in had
>> two porches, but neither of them had any leather at all, just pine
>> boards with old paint peeling off....... :-)
>
>Obviously, you didn't have a Porch Carrera...
>
Is tat the PORCH with the removable roof?

Torque Monger