A new tool has become available for law enforcement to catch speeders (and who knows that other applications to come): laser guns. Although the guns have limitations (e.g., the requirement of a direct line of sight, making them less useful in bad weather), they make it far easier to target an individual automobile, making up for a big failing of radar guns. And, unlike radar, they can’t be used while driving.

When I think of the number of people who are arrested every year for aiming ground-based laser guns at commercial airlines in flight (temporarily blinding the pilots), I have to wonder when we’ll see the first incident of a motorist blinded by a laser-wielding police officer on a traffic beat.

Read the story here.

RP

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