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Mine has gone off a few times from parked cars with no one in them. Doesn't need to be anything super schnazzy or new fangled radar system... just a cop who wants to mess with us commonfolk. :icon17: Quote:
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^^ yes why yes I did lmao, also the automatic doors at let's just say a grocery store will or can set off the detectors BC it uses a form or band of radar
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My way of mitigating this is by using the GPS to block out signals I know are false, and if there are new ones, after about 10 seconds of driving, if the signal isn't getting stronger, then it's a false reading. No biggie, that's why it has a nice big mute button. :tup: Quote:
Originally, it was X band, then they started using K band, and now Ka band for LEO. Typically, the smaller the agency, the less money they have, so the less high end detectors they will have. Your big city cops will have the newer stuff, Laser/POP/Instant On/etc, but most Rural/county agencies will just use Ka/K radar. So once AGAIN, it is on you the driver to know who/what you're up against. The detector is a tool, but it's not a magic wand. |
Thanks! I appreciate the information. It makes sense with from the data that I was "collecting" (that's a real loose term ha-ha).
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Speaking of the Collision Avoidance Systems I seem to remember Audi caused a lot of people to freak out and think they were getting hit when it was the person chugging along with cruise control/collision voidance system active while driving lol
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I'll be driving along, coming up on some minivan in the right lane, and my detector will go off with one of the lesser bands (K/X). It will be a light signal, maybe 1 bar, up until I get next to the car, then it goes to 2. After I pass them it goes away, so I just mute it while I'm passing them. The 2 good things about the 9500ci I have, (and I believe the 9500ix has the same features), is that it has 3 modes, AUTO, AUTO NO X, HIGHWAY. The AUTO NO X mode turns off the X band part of detection so you won't get these "false" signals. The other good thing is that even if one of these is going off, and it detects a Ka band, it will show the more police oriented Ka band. Not the "first detected, first shown" idea of some detectors I've seen. |
This thread has made me start getting back into this stuff lol. I think I need to send in my old STI unit to be "brought up to date". When I had my Laser Interceptor's installed on my 350, I remember seeing an LEO in Wisconsin shaking his laser gun...It was so hard not to laugh when I switched it off and passed him and let him seeing I was doing the speed limit.
I was hit so many times traveling from WI to MI. I would always slow down to the limit or 5 over and then switch it off and let em see I was doing the limit +5 lol. * I never used the system while driving through Illinois where these things are frowned upon and illegal :hello: |
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Still know whenever I'm being lased though. :tup: Of course the other down side is the damn false laser detection you sometimes get when the Sun is at just the right inclination and angle to the sensor. :shakes head: Or some headlights nowadays when it's raining will refract just enough light to set them off... So annoying hahaha |
Oh man, I remember the sun readings and thinking is there a freaking ninja out here shooting me haha
It was always early morning or early evening when it happened. The sun hit the "parking Sensors" just right lol |
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Then one night I was driving home and this ahole was following me with his highbeams on, and it was raining (tooootally safe right??) and it kept triggering my rear sensor. I was starting to think the sensor had gone bad, but as soon as the douche left, it stopped. :shakes head: |
Hmmm for the sake of science I will have to buy another Laser Interceptor system to see what sets it off :rofl2:
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