[Official] What's the Best Radar Detector?

freking8

I have a Beltronics RX65, awesome radar detector!

turbodog

Waitaminnute, waitaminnute...

So you're saying that in the absence of red light cameras you intentionally run red lights? Mind posting up your commute route? I wanna stay far away, dude.

onzedge

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Z1NONLY

Depending on how the cams are set up, they can send you a ticket for coming to a dead stop past the white line. Or making a right on red without coming to a complete stop etc.

The big one is stopping past the whit line so you can see to make a right turn.

If they only write tickes for people who blow through red lights, they will probably go broke.

ImportConvert

+1

I went through an intersection in a nearby town once on yellow because it was wet/light was short/person on my arse, and SWEAR I saw a flash, so I googled the town and saw that there were red light cameras and a LOT of people complaining about BS tickets like you mentioned above. Since the fine for the ticket is $75 maximum (it cannot increase above this regardless of period of delinquency), and no warrant will be issued, and my DL address is not where I live anymore...I don't give a damn.

theDreamer

I know in Houston, before they were removed, we had a 3rd party human factor put into place for those reasons.
Right on red - thrown out
Stopping - thrown out

Basically it was because the lights were so sensitive to any movement and people complained so much we hired a firm to put in a human check. It worked and people stopped complaining.

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Viera

To me, if you know your area fairly well and know where the cops like to hide, it's not necessary to have one. If you take long trips via the highway across the state, it can be quite beneficial; as it has saved my rear a few times!

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ImportConvert

Wrong.

I take the same way home every day. For the first time in a year of driving home this way at 0800, I saw a state trooper where there had been none before.

Cops may not all be shining examples of blazing intellect, but even a backassward hillbilly knows how to hunt a deer, and setting up to hunt motorists isn't much different. Sometimes you move the deer stand.

onzedge

Yes, indeed. Remember, too, that catching speeders and such is one of their prime obeectives and many troopers, etc., put a great deal of thought and practice into it.

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ImportConvert

Judging by some of their hiding places and tactics I have seen you are very right.

Pelican170

Really? I was just reading how it was good with that...

ImportConvert

The Redline's slow reaction time is pretty well-known.

Here is a great place to do some research: Radar Detector Jammer Forum

Pelican170

hmmnn, still not seeing that listed in those forums... either way, doesn't matter haha. I already have it...

Red__Zed

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A quick search yielded this rather scientific post:

Radar Detector Reaction Time Test - Escort Radar Forum

In short, every detector has a weak/strong point and they are all about the same if you average it all out (among high-end stuff, not whistler or RMR crap).

The V1 has arrows, though, and that tipped the scale for me. WHERE the cop is is definitely very valuable info.