Word: detector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flaming red Alfa Romeo, and to the highway patrol it seems I am begging for a speeding ticket. Without my Fuzzbuster, I would be at their mercy. When police radar is no longer accepted as automatic proof of guilt in traffic court, I will gladly put my radar detector away...
...good buddies" are sure learnin' fast how to outfox Smokey the Bear. The sophisticated way to beat speeding tickets is to use a miniaturized radar-emission detector. Mounted on a dashboard, it flashes a light and then sounds a high-pitched beep when the vehicle approaches a radar trap. "This is the fastest-growing area of consumer electronics," says Cy Robinson of a Richardson, Texas, firm called Autotronics that sells "Snoopers" ($89.95) and "Super Snoopers" ($149.95). Super Snooper claims to be able to sniff out "over-the-hill and around-the-corner detection...
...field is Electrolert of Troy, Ohio, which currently makes some 2,000 of its $90 "Fuzzbusters" a day. Electrolert was founded in 1973 by Dale Smith, a former Air Force research scientist. After being caught in a speed trap, he went home and built himself a radar detector. It was comparatively simple for him, since he was also making radar devices for the police...
...imprisonment. Last week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court disagreed with Nash, arguing that "his certainty is not shared by all commentators and scientists in the field." Unlike fingerprints, the court noted, spectrograms may vary according to such things as the speaker's health or age. And like a lie detector test there is a risk that the jury will give too much weight to such testimony. Though top courts in two states admit voiceprints as evidence, the court decided that Pennsylvania would not join them until there was "general acceptance" of the precision of voiceprints among experts. The court then...
...federally sponsored study of the "chance of escape after alarm" in several deliberately ignited homes showed that one heat sensor in every room provided only an 11% escape potential, while one smoke detector at each level of the house gave an 89% chance of escape. Many states and cities now require smoke detectors in all houses and apartments before they are sold or resold. The Federal Government will not approve a VA or FHA new housing loan unless the structure has detectors; Montgomery County, Md., will require all homes to be equipped with the sensors by July 1, 1978. Most...