Radar-detector detector for safety applications

Jonathan L. Geisheimer; Eugene F. Greneker III

doi:10.1117/12.391850

19 July 2000 Radar-detector detector for safety applications

Jonathan L. Geisheimer, Eugene F. Greneker III

Proceedings Volume 4033, Radar Sensor Technology V; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.391850
Event: AeroSense 2000, 2000, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The Georgia Tech Research Institute has designed a radar detector detector (RDD) capable of sensing the presence of a radar detector in a moving vehicle at a distance of up to several miles, depending on the terrain. The RDD was designed for use in a radar detector density survey as part an ongoing United States Department of Transportation project to measure the potential impact of the Safety Warning System^TM on motorists in a work zone. In Canada and the two U.S. states where radar detectors are outlawed, law enforcement uses VG-2 detectors able to sense the leakage of the radar detector's local oscillator (LO). Due to the radar detector industry's stance that a radar detector is simply a radio receiver, the industry responded by adding countermeasure features. One type of countermeasure turns off the radar detector LO when the leakage from the VG-2 LO is detected. Another method reduces the radar detector LO leakage to levels nearly impossible to detect using the VG-2.

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Jonathan L. Geisheimer and Eugene F. Greneker III "Radar-detector detector for safety applications", Proc. SPIE 4033, Radar Sensor Technology V, (19 July 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.391850

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