Lawman85
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KENS03SVT said:speaking as a law enforcement officer, the problem with radar detectors is that they make the driver feel as if they wont get cought speeding. It does not matter what radar detector you buy, the simple fact is if a police officer uses his radar the right way you can't beat it. Example: every radar has a setting for stand by, what this means is a radar detector is set up to recieve a certain radio frequency just like a car radio. but if the officer puts the radar on stand by and waits for you to get within his range and switch from stand by to xmit or transmit, by the time your detector starts going nuts your already locked in. when an officer decides to be lasy and leave the detector on all the time then you will have ample warning with just about any detector. So its been my expierence that not having on at all will give you better judgement while exceending the limit. and if your from jersey, in most cases an exceptable excess of the limit is 11 over anything more and you are taking a big chance in getting stopped.
I love sitting in a 35 or 40mph zone, all blacked out. You see that car coming at you around 60mph. You tap the button and the speed reads 62, then immediately goes 58, 50, 43, 35, 30.... in about 1 second. Hhmmm.... detector?
You have to remember if you get stopped for speeding, and you have a detector mounted on your windshield, the chances of getting a warning has just dropped to about 0.