Radar detectors? We use "instant on" units and laser. You cannot possibly react fast enough to beat them. It's really a hard system to beat.
laser is very tough. As was mentioned, the key is to pick up the coppers when they are targeting somebody up ahead of you.
I use a Passport 7500, it's a good unit. I've been hit with laser while using it. Luckily I was not going much over as it would have done NOTHING for me but told me I was about to get a ticket. I rely on it more when I'm in a flow with fast moving traffic. As mentioned, it'll have enough range to give you a clue that someone in front of you is being hit with radar and give you a chance to slow down. If I'm on a wide open road, I never go further over the limit than I would feel comfortable getting a ticket for. It will not save you from instant on radar. There's also VASCAR, nothing will detect that. The key is to use common sense. A radar detector is a tool that will help when used the right way, but is not some sort of Romulan cloaking device. I have also heard the Rocky Mountain Jammers were worthless. And if that fine posted above is real, yikes! Probably find a way to haul you in using the Patriot Act too! uzzled:
I think this will work for radar only. I believe there isn't enough laser beam bleed over to pick-up. It's my understanding that laser will only be detected when it's on you. I could be mistaken.
Oooops! I thought it was valentine. I'll ask again to verify the exact name, but it was a jammer that's commonly available.
I've heard about that from friends in florida. You can be doing 99mph over the first line and drop it down to 35 over the second one and since it's your average, you're only going 67mph. :Brow:
I have heard about the cops in Virginia and that not only will they give you a ticket of using your radar detector, they wil have you remove the device, they will place it in front of your tire, and you WILL run over it as you leave the scene! :spank: (at $400 for a valentine1, that would really hurt!)
I've never used a detector - I typically just keep up with traffic, and traffic around here is a bit above the speed limit anyway. I've found brake-lights are the best detectors. Someone going 5 under the limit will typically hit the brakes when seeing a cruiser - just a reaction. Radar radiates all over the place, so its easy to receive the signal even if its not pointed at you. The thing about lasers is that it is a narrow beam. Laser can be received (detected) but is much more difficult, if it is a true laser. The officer would have to shoot it through a target's window, or "miss" the target, and the detector would have to be in just the right place. Any transmission that can't be detected can't be used to measure anything. I've not heard of VASCAR, but if its a transmission-based measure, it can be detected. Whether detectors are on the market is a different issue. Now, if its a physical method, such as triggering sensors or being clocked between two white lines, there is nothing to "detect."
hehehe in the navy we supposdley spray all of our aircraft with radar absorbent paint no ide how much it costs but we always got a couple of rumors going around about guys that used it got stopped because cops radar went nuts and got busted by the nav for misuse and abuse just a rumor but supposdleyit is the paint we use on all a/c ... yes even my giant ugly slow and loud 60's p-3 :TU: "they'll never spot this flying dumpster " uzzled:
Driving Fast With Impunity. A high quality detector needs to be viewed only as a tool. It is a tool that can be used by fast drivers in the daily war of law vs. speeder. The use of a detector is not a guarantee from citations, but simply one tool of many that are required to keep us driving fast with impunity. Our senses of sight, hearing, our traffic instincts, a good layer and most of all "common sense" combined with the use and understanding of a detector can go a long way to keep us 'Driving Fast With Impunity' (Is this kind of like 'Driving Fast With Class'? Oh well, I guess not.) :3gears:
Quote: "Nor shall any person be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law" Source: The Constitution of the United States of America [14th ammendment] If a VA cop did that to me, I'd file a multi million $$ lawsuit, after placing him under citizens arrest for littering. Seriously tho, I'll bet this is only an "urban legend"
there was an article a while back in car and driver comparing the gun jamming devices. the only radar one that worked used a valintine radar detector connected to parts of a microwave. what it would do is fire up the microwave components when the radar detector went off. (if you left it on for any longer it would burn up the microwave components). This did work with the older radar units. what they say about laser ones is that the best thing is to not have any reflective material on the front of the car. ex licence plate, headlights, (pop up lights good here) and no chrome, dull paint, and no steel. they did say infrared transmitters will also jam lazer guns too. ever take your camcorder and press the buttons on a TV remote control infront of it? you'd see a blinking light from the remote that the human eye can't pick up but that will be nearly all of what the laser gun sees. -nate
