HI I think I can answer this one for you I worked for Cincinnati Microwave for 6 years and developed parts of the Solo radar detector and worked on the first laser detector. First of all was the detection device laser or radar (big difference here) Radar will pick up the fastest object in its field. It works off the Doppler effect and there are many conditions where you get a false signal. We clocked a turtle going 18 miles an hour once. Cincinnati Microwave was located at the entrance to I 71. We set up a radar device on the main road in front and got many people speeding. Problem was the speeds were incorrect. Including the local sheriff going 45 in a 25. An officer well trained will make few errors as he can sort out the inaccuracies. Radar is innacurate and there are documents stating that it is wrong over 40% of the time. Mainly due to other not related motion. Its a judgement call by the officer if he thinks your speed is what the radar gun got. It was funny once at the tennis tournament a bird flew into the stadium at the time of the serve. Since the gun measures a split second and has a minimum speed to fix on as so as not to record a person moving or a racket the bird was in the view at the time it started and after a great serve the radar showed 40 something MPH for a serve that was closer to 85 MPH. Errors can be made. That got a chuckle out of the audience. As far as the car being stainless. You make a good taget. You need to have something with a low loss tangent factor to be stealth and stainless is not it. People in Corvettes thought they would be less of a target because of the fiberglass but remember the nice big engine in front. There are ways to distort or absorb the signals but most fall short of being effective. We have tried the blankets and other devices. The best are the ones that broadcast and send random false signals. Illegal but more effective. As far as laser, mistakes can be made but it is a lot more accurate and less likely to be in error but they can be out of calibration or the officer can miss and hit somethig behind you like in a line of traffic. As far as your speed from experience you were probably going faster than you thought but the guy next to you may have been in the slow lane but going faster and the officer got his speed and was looking at you. Radar is half technology and half judgement. Laser is more 80'% technology 20% judgement. Speeding ticket errors are common but not easily defended against because most people do not understand the way they work, the harmonics and the way the signal returns or is calibrated to the source ( radar gun or laser). Judges don't undersatnd either and as long as the gun is in calibration and they have the records (as they will have) then you are usually gonna pay. Best unit I had was a hot gold plated Passport. Still to this day it picks up signals from great distances. I carry it in my DeLorean (Gigawatt) More for show now but it is cool. ( I don't speed anymore) :-) I have a picture somewhere where it shows me driving down 71 in Tennessee with 150 Solo radar detectors on the dash, seat etc, We were testing them and this made quite a picture not to mention the stares we got and when radar hit it was a bit noisy. At any rate i would guess there was something in the field of detection moving at 60MPH and that is what got picked up. Due to the cosine angle the actual speed recorded on the radar is usually one or two miles slower than the real speed. Also ask to see the speed. This is not gonna help your ticket but it makes for a good story. I enjoyed the 6 years at Microwave it was a lot of fun Ken [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/