Valentine 1 vs Escort Redline radar detectors

[Ferzerp]

I've gotten two speeding tickets in my life. The first, I would not have gotten with a working detector. The second, I got despite my detector because I had turned the volume down for a phone call, and hadn't turned it back up. Doh.

I find laser usage to be extremely rare (because it is not as convenient to use with the limitations I suppose).

I use a V1. Sadly, there is a ton of noise in the K band these days. I really should disable K band on the thing.

 

[yagawood]

I used to use a radar/laser detector, but since all of the cops around here now use lidar, I don't even bother since if it were to go off while I were speeding, it would only be a notification that I've been busted. I do wonder, however, whether there are any smartphone apps that work well? Perhaps a Google Maps overlay or something similar that would use GPS and crowd-sourcing to alert drivers that they're about to enter an area that's being actively monitored?

 

[jlee]

I used to use a radar/laser detector, but since all of the cops around here now use lidar, I don't even bother since if it were to go off while I were speeding, it would only be a notification that I've been busted. I do wonder, however, whether there are any smartphone apps that work well? Perhaps a Google Maps overlay or something similar that would use GPS and crowd-sourcing to alert drivers that they're about to enter an area that's being actively monitored?

Waze does that already.

 

[Ferzerp]

I really should disable K band on the thing.

After this post, I checked around, and apparently they have a traffic monitor filter mode. It disables K band POP, but it completely killed the noise from all the blind spot monitors, active cruise controls, etc. It had been getting obnoxious on the K band.

 

[ummduh]

I just stopped hauling ass in areas I'm not familiar with. Actually, age has slowed me down. I'm only 33 now but I really don't speed that much anymore. Every now and then I'll get a hair up my ass, but it's less and less these days. My last ticket was from pure dumbassery. I knew cops sit there, I knew the speed limit, but for some reason I just wasn't paying any attention to my speed. I honestly wasn't speeding on purpose. Speeding tickets in CA are expensive!

None of these things will protect you from VASCAR.

I do use Waze and Trapster, don't really need to but I like to know.

 

[JMapleton]

I use a V1. Sadly, there is a ton of noise in the K band these days. I really should disable K band on the thing.

Depends on where you are. There still are police departments that use K band, but probably less than 10%.

 

[Ferzerp]

Depends on where you are. There still are police departments that use K band, but probably less than 10%.

Yeah. I was able to enable one of the options and it cut down on the noise a lot without totally shutting off K band.

 

[bruceb]

You can set that filter or turn off K Band. But be sure the areas you drive in, the cops do not use it. For example, here in NJ, the NJ State Troopers, still use K Band. Most of the towns however, use KA and I have seen some Laser units (you can tell Laser as the officer must sight through the unit to aim it at the car he wants to clock) ... also some smaller towns or villages, may not have the budget to upgrade to KA or Laser, so they may still use old, still functioning, K Band units. Best thing is to just Mark areas where you know it is a false alarm. Usually by shopping centers.