Ford just made cop-spotting a whole lot harder (Red and Blue Lights, now behind the windshield)

CNet/com ^

[cba123]

Car enthusiasts occasionally pride themselves on being able to pick out police cars from far away. I don't condone speeding, but if you ignore my wishes, it's a good idea to at least be smart about it. That's about to get a whole lot harder with Ford's new low-profile LED light bar.

Even sneakier than the roof-mounted light bar is the visor-mounted light bar, which attaches up near the sun visors inside the cabin, basically disappearing behind the windshield. Ford's new low-profile light bar is fully integrated outside of the driver's field of vision, for both reduced obstruction and a lower chance of scofflaws realizing five-o is in hot pursuit.

http://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/continental-to-augment-reality-on-your-windshield/

[cba123]

Aw ... (won't say it)

Thank goodness for cruise control.

[cba123]

http://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/continental-to-augment-reality-on-your-windshield/

[Vendome]

What is the point of marked vehicles then?

[Paladin2]

I’ll observe that strict attention to staying below 5 over the limit eliminates the need to be always searching for the freedom restrictors and revenuers..

[jurroppi1]

Wouldn’t this be a more proper link to the article?
http://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/ford-police-interceptor-utility-low-profile-led-light-bar/

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

I need a better radar detector ! which justifies their existence , ..as far as I am concerned !!

[Iscool]

Not fair...

[freepersup]

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

I need a better radar detector for rod trips !
but interior lights make it 'safer' for police to protect themselves from B L M gangstas'
which justifies their existence , ..as far as I am concerned !!

[cba123]

Um, thanks.

Not sure what happened there. Much obliged.

[jessduntno]

The real sad part of this is the obvious use of moving violations to increase revenue. They used to make cop cars stand out intentionally to suppress illegal actions. Now they re officially putting the cars on the road in stealth mode for purposes of generating income and no other reason. No more Interceptors - now they are Lurkers.

[ChuteTheMall]

Are these on Mexican Fords or American Fords?

Do the have horns that play La Cucaracha?

[Innovative]

It doesn’t appear to help the driver at all, so why did they do this? Did they say or any wild guesses out there?

[Undecided 2012]

it’s not always that way, sometimes cops are cool.
I usually go 10mph over, one day north of Houston I was going 75 in a 65 and a black car passes me so I figured I’d follow at about 85, well when I passed him he put his lights on and I started to pull over and he just wizzed past me. what a relief that was.

[taildragger]

My guess why they did this?

Gas Mileage. Rumor from my airplane buds here in MI is the cross-member bars on the roof racks of the old Chrysler Mini-Vans and SUV's was costing them 2 MPG... Obama's mileage numbers and meeting them are everything right now..

[jurroppi1]

No worries, the other article was neat too :)

[golux]

http://www.wnd.com/2009/12/120497/

[varyouga]

The only time I ever called a cop is when I saw someone getting attacked in the street and flagged down a cruiser that happened to be driving by.

But I guess hiding and collecting revenue is more important than helping people...

[Fungi]

"Car enthusiasts occasionally pride themselves on being able to pick out police cars from far away. I don't condone speeding, but if you ignore my wishes, it's a good idea to at least be smart about it. That's about to get a whole lot harder with Ford's new low-profile LED light bar."

Can someone please explain what these three sentenses mean?

[dragnet2]

So much for the safety angle of keeping a high profile in traffic. They should just use unmarked vehicles and just slap on a magnetic rooftop light. Paint the stars or badges on the side doors the size of a quarters.