If you’re driving down the road in the future and you see a
cop pointing what appears to be a radar gun your way, stepping on the
brake to slow down might not help you out, because speeding might not be
what he’s looking for.
A Virginia-based company is developing a detection gun that can tell if a person in the vehicle is texting.
According to the Virginian-Pilot, ComSonics is creating a device that picks up on radio frequencies that come from a cellphone being used inside the car. Malcolm McIntyre, the company’s calibration services manager, told the newspaper that text messages emit a different frequency than other cellphone activities. This would allow such a device to determine if a driver were possibly sending a text behind the wheel.
ComSonics already has a foot into the law enforcement industry in that it offers calibration and repair services for radar and lidar equipment.
Read more: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/17/coming-soon-when-a-cop-points-his-radar-gun-at-you-it-could-detect-more-than-just-speeding/
A Virginia-based company is developing a detection gun that can tell if a person in the vehicle is texting.
According to the Virginian-Pilot, ComSonics is creating a device that picks up on radio frequencies that come from a cellphone being used inside the car. Malcolm McIntyre, the company’s calibration services manager, told the newspaper that text messages emit a different frequency than other cellphone activities. This would allow such a device to determine if a driver were possibly sending a text behind the wheel.
ComSonics already has a foot into the law enforcement industry in that it offers calibration and repair services for radar and lidar equipment.
Read more: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/17/coming-soon-when-a-cop-points-his-radar-gun-at-you-it-could-detect-more-than-just-speeding/
