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LIDAR: Lasers Nab Leadfoots

Video on May 01, 2007 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
Topics: Engineering, Physics, Television

A growing number of Bay Area police are putting away their old radar guns and embracing new laser beam guns, clocking cars with much more precision than before. QUEST TV finds out how they work.

Tags: kqed, laser, LIDAR, pbs, police, QUEST

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