Here in a suburb of Buffalo, New York, USA ours do indeed show your speed 
when you are over the limit. The change to flashing orange too.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Winter" <HDRW@H2Org.demon.co.uk>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Police "LADAR"?


> Dave,
>
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:33:41 -0500, Dave VanHorn wrote:
>
>> At 04:40 AM 1/26/2005, Alan B. Pearce wrote:
>>
>>...<
>> >This would suggest to me that the processing of the information is being
>> >done in a simplified way to allow more time to get the "smiley face" or
>> >"frowning face" up on the board.
>>
>> ??? these boards read out your speed about once a second in large digits.
>
> None of the UK devices like this tell you your speed - I believe it's 
> thought that people will try to use it
> to calibrate their speedo's, or worse still lead to youths driving up and 
> down trying to get Fastest Time of
> the Day!
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Howard Winter
> St.Albans, England
>
>
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