[Official] What's the Best Radar Detector?

XwChriswX · 11-27-2013, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by winnre

I got hit with laser once. From the side. There is no reaction time with laser, you are toast when it alarms.

True, but with some traffic cameras, depending on where they are actually measuring at, I'll get a hit well before I come into that range to give time to slow down. If it's a cop with a trigger gun, yeah you're toast, but that's the risk you take.

I don't consider it a Laser Detector anymore than it is a Laser Informer.

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Originally Posted by Haboob

Let's be honest, if you're hit with LASER it doesn't matter unless you've got a shifter. You don't have time to slow down.

Even with the shifter, it's tricky. You need to know if laser "jamming" is legal or not in your area. If it is, then you get lased, jam it the first time. That's your freebie, your azz better slow down before he tries again. And you need to have the shifters off so he thinks it was just a gun malfunction or errant reading.

If it's Not legal in your area, he could bust you for the jamming, and forego the speeding charge altogether.

Haboob · 11-27-2013, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by theDreamer

Other cars, not your own.
If yours was being set off while completely alone, there might have been problems with it or was it a cheap unit?

It was a Passport 8500, not top of the line, but not cheap either.

Quote:

Originally Posted by XwChriswX

True, but with some traffic cameras, depending on where they are actually measuring at, I'll get a hit well before I come into that range to give time to slow down. If it's a cop with a trigger gun, yeah you're toast, but that's the risk you take.

I don't consider it a Laser Detector anymore than it is a Laser Informer.

Even with the shifter, it's tricky. You need to know if laser "jamming" is legal or not in your area. If it is, then you get lased, jam it the first time. That's your freebie, your azz better slow down before he tries again. And you need to have the shifters off so he thinks it was just a gun malfunction or errant reading.

If it's Not legal in your area, he could bust you for the jamming, and forego the speeding charge altogether.

Shifting/jamming is legal in AZ I read (or more like, not illegal).

I just don't want to shell out the $$ for that.

I've only ever encountered LASER once in Arizona, and that was a couple of months ago up near Jerome when the M3 got hit with LASER.

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