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Direction: When Geico decided in the negative automobile insurance for drivers of vehicles, “she said in possession of radar detectors, he expects no controversy. It has the meaning”,” said August p. Alegi, Deputy Vice President and General Counsel for the company. Own”detectors people for one reason only: to avoid speed limits. This makes unacceptable risks.

If Geico decided in the negative automobile insurance for drivers of vehicles, “she said in possession of radar detectors, he expects no controversy. It has the meaning”,” said August p. Alegi, Deputy Vice President and General Counsel for the company. Own”detectors people for one reason only: to avoid speed limits. This makes unacceptable risks.”

Geico, government staff Insurance Company, underestimated, as many opposition, the decision would wake up. The plan at the beginning of last year, a new debate about a product, which has touched the emotions of the driver, police officers, legislators and producers and for 20 years.

At the heart of the dispute, in Maryland, one of the many countries that are radar detectors legal. In December, a hearing was held in Baltimore by the state and settlement of licensing department to decide if Geico could deny, insurance, pilots are used. A decision is expected by early next month. Relying on honesty

Mr. Alegi acknowledged that the new requirement is very difficult to implement because insurers must relate to her honesty. Geico applications ask if the driver uses a detector, but do not say that insurance is denied to achieve. They are, by phone, are invited to the same question, but do not say that you answer yes, a disqualified. ”If it does not like it can go somewhere,’’said Alegi.

The real question is whether the detectors should be declared illegal. This is the first time that an insurance company has a booth, which on this issue.

This support, Geico argued that the detectors be used only as an opportunity for drivers to circumvent the acceleration cards, and it is a disadvantage for safety on roads. Those who take what they call die””Menschenverstand Display, point to Display dass”Detektoren say can help the Beat-Rap.”Some manufacturers promise to himself to pay speeding tickets . A need for a defence

Opponents of insurance claims that four million people in the USA, its own radar detectors are on the whole more secure, warning the pilot, and that the detectors are a means to fight against the maximum speed authorized, the only increase in revenue. They argue that the detectors schützen”das fundamental right to know when you are under surveillance.”

”It is a mistake that everyone has a warning radar is out there, around acceleration,’’said Janice Lee, president of the radio association rights Airwave Inc (radar), the group Trading as a representative of the radar detector industry, the vast approximately $ 350 million per year. Many tickets”there is a mistake, she said”,” and people need a defense.”

Ms. Lee and other pressure groups have been winners on the side of the argument. Over the past ten years, over 130 bills, outlaw radar detectors have been in many state legislators. But only, Connecticut, Virginia and the District of Columbia have declared illegal.

Assemblyman Robert A. D’Andrea, Saratoga Republican, was a bill, a few months ago to outlaw detectors in New York, but it was defeated in a committee vote because Mr. D’Andrea said que”cette question is on time, do not always come easy.”

Geico is the 11th largest issuer of automobile insurance the USA, with 1.5 million policyholders, and 5 more in New York. The pro-detector pressure groups fear that the position of the company could be made ripples in the insurance sector.

No other insurance companies have announced plans to deny, but Allstate, the second insurer vehicles in the country and the largest in New York, recently adopted a statement opposing radar detectors. NHTSA examines the effects of radar detectors on road safety.