This article was published in the Philadelphia Daily News on March 21, 2005. In short, it details Motorola’s findings on the Pennsylvania State Police’s problems with their in-car computer systems repeatedly crashing.
State police at one time believed the radar guns were prone to malfunction only when plugged into the cigarette lighter of 2003 or 2004 Ford police cars. The Motorola report, though, says any Crown Victoria police car’s electrical system can be trouble, especially in cars with older batteries.
The report concludes that the array of police lights, radios, computers and other power equipment overloads the cars’ electrical system and introduces electrical noise, which interferes with the computers and radar guns.
So, as you can see, Motorola basically states that the Ford Crown Victoria’s used by the Pennsylvania State Police are just overloaded with electrical equipment that causes numerous problems, including introducing electrical noise which can cause interference and make the GHS radar guns produce false readings, but wait, the PSP continue to state that all of these studies prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that the guns are accurate. Why are these reports stating and showing the complete opposite?
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