Just add some thermal sensor, say an IR thermometer, and give it a range of say +- 3 degrees F off 98.6 degrees.

Then unless you’re around someone who’s real sick and probably going to die without medical treatment…

“to under stand the concepts of the law”

I’m sure most of us under stand[sic] the concepts of the law.

And in the United States, we have a long, glorious history of rebelling against the laws when they’re unjust. Take a read at “A Letter from a Birmingham Jail”.

In other news, this is still a pretty cool hack.

The logic is that the devices (dispised as they are) are simply a safety device and are mounted in locations which have previously had fatal accidents.

So looking at this way, any GPS device which warns on speed cameras is a safety device.

I general don’t speed that much, and believe that you should be in control of your car at all times, and be able to cope with the mistakes of other road users.
Simon.

On the topic of ‘obeying the law’ — there was a study done a few years back in Boston (by MIT I think?). A crackdown on jaywalking caused some researchers to estimate what would happen if EVERYONE obeyed the rules and crossed at a crosswalk (and pressed the crosswalk button). The conclusion was that the city would actually come to a gridlock, and that jaywalking was the only way to prevent this from happening.

;) Generally here in the US the rules are; that you are permitted to monitor radio transmissions if don’t divulge the content or use the content to break other laws. Who knows if the patriotact nullified such sensable rules? Nuff said on that.
S.

Second: Speeding never killed anyone. Ever. Too fast for conditions isn’t speeding. Driving irresponsibly isn’t speeding. Doing either while speeding is dangerous. I can’t hurt anyone except myself when i speed on an empty road.

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Third: It would be easy to develop something like this. Carputer, wireless card, gps dongle, radar detector with a data out port. (I know the valentine 1 does it, i’m sure others do) code a database to put locations on a map based on the radar band and signal strength. There are already people working on it.

Your idea is brilliant. It is no more illegal than getting on the phone and telling your buddies where the speed trap is that you just saw, or after passing said speed trap, flashing your lights at oncoming motorists as a warning to slow down.

As far as the police are concerned (publicly, anyway), all of these things accomplish the very same objective: getting drivers to slow down.

And I’m sorry, but it takes about 5 minutes and full attention to change the speed warning in my car. I can’t set the speed warning for every street onto which I turn.

A *useful* device that would alleviate the concerns that radar detectors are used to speed would be a proximity-type device that “read” a transponder on each street and updated the speed alarm within the car with the appropriate speed. Thus, whatever street you’re on, the speed alarm would be automatically, and correctly, calibrated.

It would still be the driver’s choice, however, to turn it on…

On a separate note, since when are hackers concerned with with what is, and isn’t lawful? isn’t the whole hacker philosophy to do whats right, despite their government.