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Originally Posted by Superman
At night, you're probably only looking at a radar threat. Laser is a sharp beam that must be aimed directly at a reflecting area on your car. The license plate. There is some question as to whether they can really hit that rectangle at night, when they cannot see it. I'm guessing they don't try. Night time = radar.
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I've been tagged by laser/lidar at night. I was coming along an undulating but straight highway. There was a single car in front of me--probably by about 1/3 mile. As I rounded the corner leading onto this undulating section, I got a laser hit on my V1 just as I was cresting a bump. I slowed down to the speed limit. I continued along this undulating bit. At the end of the straightaway (I've since gone back and measured this to be a distance of about 0.9 miles), was a Statie parked in the median. Right before I got to him, he turned his headlights on. Right after I drove by, at the speed limit, he pulled out onto the highway, and passed me at full song. Again, except for the single car about 1/3 mile in front of me, there was no one else on the highway. So I'm guessing that he was using laser, deliberately, at night.