I'm in TX on a road trip too, but in the other direction...going to/from South Carolina. I was in San Antonio earlier this week but now in San Angelo. I saw a couple 370s going the other direction on the highway. No run ins with the law yet. What detector do you have? I have a Valentine 1 but don't think its really been put to the test yet.

Hey, I've got a 9500iX, which no offense I think is superior to the Valentine 1, now my mistake was that when the road is DEAD, like at 4AM the cops aren't going to leave their radar on, they'll blip it on and off as they see cars, and NO radar detector would stop that

On the other hand today I got Ka band from 5 miles in advance, but that's because there were a lot of cars on the road

I still think the V1 is superior, IMHO. However, the V1 (or any good radar), out on a highway, really requires the user to monitor it and come to understand what the outputs mean as well. No system can accurately tell the difference between various kinds of false alarms and various edgy situations where you picked up a blip reflection from a trooper hitting a car with instant-on 5 miles out ahead of you. For me, having the directional display on the V1 (and the bogey counter and big signal strength meter) is a big help in sorting out what signals really mean, and the sensitivity on the V1 is top-notch. It lacks the modern features of the 9500ix like the GPS database stuff, but honestly that sounds like the sort of thing that will eventually hurt you more than help you. Cops understand how those location systems work, all they have to do is move a little to trip you up.

There's a lot to be said for coming to understand how to manually evade speed traps and cops, too. Reading the traffic ahead of you for signs of other cars slowing down, knowing the deadly trap areas like hills and bridges and slowing a little (or at least covering the brake and being ready), scanning visually as far out ahead of the car as you can, etc...

Picked up the last BBQ in TX, $277 worth of food, lol

11 hours 30 min to go!

Did you pass Dwight Howard on the way?

Ryan Hopper. gogo!

Sorry, I know who he is and I saw a bunch of memes and updates on FB, but I don't follow sports at all, so... Yeahhhhh...

Too late, already passed through, unfortunately the ONLY guy I talked to was a really gay guy and the only other guy u saw for more than a minute was early 40's with a kid at the museum
Sorry...

This Altima guy passed me and he had his high beans on the WHOLE time, but once he was in front, good, leave them on

Then he stated at 75 when it turned 75 and I'm at 83, and once I started passing him they were still on . So I slowed down, but he slowed with me all the way to like 45, lol

Then I flashed my high beams at him then gunned it around his dumb àss

The person in the back of their car looked back and looked so scared, LOL


(I do not support super speeding, but 6 different cops said within 10 over is safe)

Oh... And like a MORON I flashed my high beams at oncoming traffic to warn them of a cop in their side of the road...
One of them was a cop... :facepalm:

I didn't know this was illegal in TX until recently.

I guess you wouldnt qualify for secret agent school. :icon17:

This is true.

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I believe it's illegal in most states under an umbrella law of "disrupting police duties"

As far as I am concerned, I was waving the guy behind the semi into my lane so he can overtake the semi too without having to slam on his brakes...

Or (only applicable in the redneck states), "these fùcking Jap cars, I'm trying to turn on the god damn fog lights and it flickers between the fog and high beam"

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