Why use Highway Radar on a lake?
Woodsy,
I'm curious to know why you chose to use a "highway radar" system for your example, and not one of the readily available "marine radar" systems, which are engineered for marine use to overcome all of these drawbacks and which are only marginally more expensive than highway systems? Such are the systems being used so successfully in so many locations and by so many marine law enforcement agencies around the country and in Canada. Why are these being ignored in all these arguments when they have been proven to be so effective?
Also, didn't we have speed limits before radar was invented? Didn't the courts recognize the expert testimony of an experienced officer when he said "I would estimate his speed to be over 70MPH in a 45MPH zone". Other marine police officers are telling me that conviction rates with just such testimony are "the norm".
Frank
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