Half the time they are driving around with the shit on, not clocking anybody but you get a heads up that they are on the road in front or behind you. That is why people have them. Get a clue and educate yourself before you speak, your information is either just stupid and wrong or increadibly outdated.

Dumb ass, I get alerts that I am approaching a cop with Ka band from 2 miles away. It works great. You’ve either purcheased a weak, cheap detector, or you don’t know how to use it. Probably both. If you need a demonstration of how to use it, I’m happy to show you. Either way your ignorance is evident and the reason…

I like the V1 because it is directional.

No worries :)

again, you responded to YOURSELF. Let me know if you need a tutorial on how to use this site.

Haha. Good point! It’s one of my pet peeves, hearing people blab on about shit they don’t know about.

Lidar jammers only allow them to work from 1 to 200 feet, if ever. Sorry if I wasn’t clear. They work, of course, from very high distances...(a radar working only if 200ft from the car would be pretty damn useless... at 120mph, 200ft are done in less than a second... you would have hard time doing your job lol).

It is perfectly legal where I live (Japan). I already have one. And yes it s illegal in some states: (acording to wiki): California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, South Carolina, Tennessee,Texas, Utah, and Virginia.

I dont do enough long road trips for it to matter much. I just use waze. It blows for cops, always false reports, saved me once or twice, its good for other shit though to be safe. Like stopped cars accidents or traffic camera locations. Also i drive fast enough for cops to not catch me from behind unless they are…

Good to know. I have not seen that in years, but I guess that could be a new way of fooling folks with radar! Go back to a technology we all assume they don’t use anymore.

Bottom line is my radar detector is infinitely more useful than waze for avoiding speeding tickets. Infinitely more useful to alerting me of the presence of LE. Cops nicer now? Don’t know where I even addresed that. Need to speed? Yes, I’m sorry but I am not going to go 70 on CA 5. You should definitely go 70, as you…

With a modern detector that is installed properly (high enough to see) you will almost always get alerts from the laser tagging cars way up the road from you before you are the target. If you get a laser alert its almost always legit and you slow down to the limit. If you are the only car for miles you could be…

I have a passport 9500ix and it’s saved my ass more times than I can count. I’ve never gotten a ticket with it in my car.

Better to just get a radar detector and learn how to use it properly.

you have no clue what you are talking about. you are a classic example of someone who had zero first hand knowledge of current sitaution but is trying to sound like an expert.

They can’t run K band in an area that is flooded with K band signals. And that’s why they dont. It’s Ka in nearly every area except way out in the sticks. And if you get popped by K band in a city that’s and easy case to win. Can’t get accurate readings while working in and area flooded by K band. Some departments…

Yep. I get nearly zero false positives with my detector because it’s setup to deal with the area I live in. If I get Ka or Laser hits I know it’s very likely legit. But you get what you pay for with a detector. Sort of. IMO it’s V1 or don’t bother but I know a few others are pretty good these days. Still...I prefer…

I have had a Beltronics RX65 for years now and it has saved me many times on our many long desolate highways like US-59. In Texas the cops and highway patrol use KA-Band like 90% of the time and it warns me 3 miles in advance of any cop. As long as you spend the money on a Beltronics, Escort, V1 or other high end…

I don’t know what it was like ‘back in the day’. But today, I need one way more than I need waze and it works very well on the 5, 405, 395 and just about everywhere else. I love how people without recent first hand knowledge are commenting up a storm.

You are out of date, and are talking about K band. Signs and supermarkets use K band. Cops use KA band. Different things. You need to get educated. Or perhaps you just don’t have any use for a radar detector? Either way, I can assure you that what you said is complete nonsense.