Laser detection on radar detectors are not useless after all - Page 2

motordavid · #11 08-03-2007, 02:50 PM

My Portable Passport, (admittedly not the state of the art, but
not bad with Radar), has saved my fanny a couple times with
its Lidar capability. I chalk that up to being back several cars
when the cop targeted the lead car with his laser gun.

I also find several brands of cars setting it off and also, some
airports as one drives by. I'm guessing the rotating beacons,
though I would think the wavelengths(s) are some space away
on the EMS.

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dkl · #12 08-03-2007, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by AutoXer

V1 works pretty well, but does nothing against Lidar. By the time mine went off, it was all over!

That was exactly my point. I also thought it was all over when I realized the laser alert wasn't false. My V1 first went off when I was doing about 80+mph. So I thought he would of had me clocked in that neighborhood (70-80mph).

dkl · #13 08-03-2007, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Kaefer

I don't know, but gresch is right. All traiblazer and GMC lights set off the V1. It's maybe the bulbs they are using...?

The neon lights on some store signs also do the same to my V1. So I guess V1 is probably just doing some simple detection on a certain light spectrum. LEDs aren't that far off the spectrum from laser.

AzNMpower32 · #14 08-03-2007, 04:21 PM

I don't use a radar detector. At the same time, I drove slowly enough, and when combined with the heavy traffic and fairly lenient MoCo cops, speed really isn't an issue. Plus, I have at least a sprinkling of common sense. I mean seriously ride in a car with me, and you will be tempted to be lulled to sleep

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Except that you won't, because the X3's suspension will keep you awake.

dkl · #15 08-03-2007, 04:25 PM

I agree and am definitely not an advocate of speeding. But sometimes it doesn't hurt to have some extra information.

Scottie · #16 08-03-2007, 04:33 PM

I think you were just lucky in this case.

What was the speed limit on the road you were on.

Over here the calibration settings that the police have to do on their laser guns means

that you get the speed limit plus 10% and add on 2 miles.

So for a 70mph zone your ok if you are doing 79mph.

I think he had his gun on you and thought what the hell can't be bothered doing him.

The speed dectectors are only good for warning you of speed cameras locations and any known mobile locations will not help with the video/laser camera vans and nothing else in the UK anyway as I know to my cost. 6 points on my licence.

pete6211 · #17 08-03-2007, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by AzNMpower32

I mean seriously ride in a car with me, and you will be tempted to be lulled to sleep

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Like that quiet departure from the parking lot after the meet in MD?

AzNMpower32 · #18 08-03-2007, 10:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pete6211

Like that quiet departure from the parking lot after the meet in MD?

Shhh!!!

Ok, correction. It's fuel-economy driving 90% of the time. The other 10% is er, well, less discrete.

trueX5er · #19 08-03-2007, 10:14 PM

Aren't a lotta you guys from the DC metro area and aren't radar detectors illegal in VA? Do people get pulled over for that? I always see the sign "Welcome to Virginia: Radar Detectors Prohibited" (or whatever it says) when I drive into Rosslyn.

dkl · #20 08-03-2007, 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scottie

I think you were just lucky in this case.

What was the speed limit on the road you were on.

Over here the calibration settings that the police have to do on their laser guns means

that you get the speed limit plus 10% and add on 2 miles.

So for a 70mph zone your ok if you are doing 79mph.

I think he had his gun on you and thought what the hell can't be bothered doing him.

The speed dectectors are only good for warning you of speed cameras locations and any known mobile locations will not help with the video/laser camera vans and nothing else in the UK anyway as I know to my cost. 6 points on my licence.

Yeah...the cop probably had a nice day Or maybe that he initially read 80+mph and saw a steady decline to about 65mph (over about a 1/2 mile distance), decided to let me off?

(I was doing 80+mph in a 55mph zone when the detector went off). I'm almost certain that I would have been nailed if I had blasted by him at 80mph+. So...the detector is not completely useless as some would believed (myself included prior to this incident)

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