Radar Detectors????

I use an Escort 8500 and it's a superb unit. However, I was given a PNI Sensoro Silver bullet to play with a Month or so ago and for a $100 Radar unit it detects radar as well as the Escort. It lacks the bells and whistles and only detects Laser, K and Ka and does it as impressively as the big guns.

It also filters false 'alarms' as well as the 8500, when it goes off it means RADAR!!

I am gonna buy a couple...............
 
Saunterer said:
The V1 will display the number of radar sources, and the arrows will blink according to which source is the strongest and/or on what band. Example: if you are driving near a grocery store and receive 4 X-band alerts and another source on Ka-band comes into range, the V1 will rank the Ka source as priority and indicate it's direction.




I beg to differ. Once I was driving through Kentucky around 3 a.m. My V1 beeped just once and indicated a Ka source ahead. I was the only vehicle on the road, no other lights to be seen. For the next 5 minutes or so still saw nothing. Then all the sudden, instant-on and he was sitting under a bridge in the median. Without knowing that the source was ahead of me, I probably would have never known to be aware.

There's a difference in a radar detector and a radar locator. :D
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i too say the directional indicators are farrrrr froma gimmick, BS i say, they sure work for me.

usually if ya are speeding and ya get pulled over cops are gonna ticket ya, detector or not, its revenue (in tx anyway) so many folks have them now anyway it nothing special, and of course the cops talk crap, they dont work/etc etc, they dont want ya to have one, i guess they hope ya go home and throw it away............and i guarantee ya i have saved myself from WAYYYY more tickets WITH the detector than i EVER would have gotten pulled over, no detector, and they let me slide( a RARE occurence to say the least). i drive fast and have gotten 1 ticket in 7 yrs.........although a few yrs ago in south tx a DPS trooper got me 77/60 and even w/my detector gave me a warning, he never mentioned it, how did he get me?? coming over a hill/not paying attention to the road, heck i wasnt going that fast lol!
 
I used a couple of the older Passports for years, worked fine. My feeling is that when it beeps, I slow down. Alot of my driving is Highway and I really don't care where the radar is I'm just glad it warned me.

Hey, I own a V-1 and it ain't leaving the car, when I travel it goes in the extra case I bought. Saved my butt out West a few times.

I just think that for my second car the Escort will be fine. I'm actually not a speeder on the highway it's those pesky back roads!

Win
 
mwerner said:
Of course, one also has the option (entirely free!) of obeying speed limits...

One fellow locally made the newspapers.. He was caught in a large-multi jurisdictional speed enforcement effort. That night, he went out and dropped a couple of hundred bucks on a high-end detector.

He was stopped the next day, caught by officers using a helicopter to time drivers between two points.
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Would it be inapropriate to assume because you have Radar detecter on your dash when stopped for a turn signal or redlight that you also make a habit of speeding? My dad used to give me an extra one for the one I didn't get caught for.

An intersting article by our Chief in the local paper. He drove a route that is marked 25mph and timed it. He then drove it again at varying speeds again timming the same route. It turn out that the people that are passing you every day are only making seconds over you until they get stopped by that next light and there you are sitting next to them only for them to race to the next red light. Although I once stopped a guy for 62 in the same 25mph zone but he was drunk. 60mph versus 70mph is only a 10 minute difference if you drove for a straight hour.

Speed limits are set for safety. Lights are timed based on the speed limit. It never ceases to amaze me to go to a traffic crash and see a car on it's roof in a 25 mph zone.

Gadget54
 
Gadget- this is something I have long observed. If you watch the guys who go shooting past you, especially on urban streets, it's very rarely that they will gain any time advantage by driving like fools.
Almost invariably, they're waiting at the next stoplight, or the one after that.

Much the same on the highway, at least in heavy traffic. I don't know how many times I've kept track of some nerd who's weaving in and out of lanes, tailgating, shooting into a momentary opening....All that stuff. Usually after 10 miles or so they have gained no more than a couple of hundred yards.

I still maintain that my theory of "autopilot" driving is essentially correct; that is, a large number of people do not concentrate at all on their driving. They just mentally input "work" or "grocery store", and off they go.
Problem is, the autopilots are all set wrong...

As evidence, the frequent multi-car crashes in fog or bad visibility conditions. No adjustment of speed for conditions, you see....Autopilot.
 
Saunterer said:
The V1 will display the number of radar sources, and the arrows will blink according to which source is the strongest and/or on what band. Example: if you are driving near a grocery store and receive 4 X-band alerts and another source on Ka-band comes into range, the V1 will rank the Ka source as priority and indicate it's direction.




I beg to differ. Once I was driving through Kentucky around 3 a.m. My V1 beeped just once and indicated a Ka source ahead. I was the only vehicle on the road, no other lights to be seen. For the next 5 minutes or so still saw nothing. Then all the sudden, instant-on and he was sitting under a bridge in the median. Without knowing that the source was ahead of me, I probably would have never known to be aware.

There's a difference in a radar detector and a radar locator. :D
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Exactly so. There may be more than one radar source in an area. The directionals will tell you this, assuming the sources aren't right next to one another, which is unlikely. Thus, you get a warning signal, it goes away. You then get another signal and assume it's the same one. The arrows would tell you otherwise.
 
Some of you guys are assuming that everyone is in the same boat as you. In my daily 10 mile (each way) commute, I deal with a grand total of 2 traffic lights...

Mark
 
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