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Lets talk about radar/laser detectors
This is my first real summer with my 89 5.0 and one of the toys I
wanna get is a wireless (since they dont make hardwired anymore) mountable/hideable radar detector. Does it really pay off to have a detector these days? Radar or laser? After a google search it seems like the Whistler de3500 is my best option. Is it true that having a laser detector doesnt really help cause it has to hit you to be detected and then its too late. Looking for stories or opinions on this matter. |
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My dad always uses a radar/laser detector and ALWAYS gets tickets!
I won't waste money on one. They still use the ol' "bear in the air/eye in the sky" trick. If I'm on a long trip and I need to make good time, I bring my CB radio. The truckers always communicate the locations of law enforcement, and I haven't had a speeding ticket or even been pulled over in years, (even though I "may" have deserved one). I've not had a radar detector since 1985. > wrote in message oups.com... > This is my first real summer with my 89 5.0 and one of the toys I > wanna get is a wireless (since they dont make hardwired anymore) > mountable/hideable radar detector. > > Does it really pay off to have a detector these days? Radar or laser? > > After a google search it seems like the Whistler de3500 is my best > option. > > Is it true that having a laser detector doesnt really help cause it > has to hit you to be detected and then its too late. > > Looking for stories or opinions on this matter. > |
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"Ashton Crusher" > wrote in message
... > > If you read the traffic and watch how you drive and where you > speed you can get by without a detector MOST of the time. > The detector is just another tool that can help but it's not the only > tool. There's a black Mustang up ahead, and he must be doing about 90mph. You, you're a left-lane campout whom he just passed on the right, driving your SUV at about 70-75. As you crest a hill, you can see the black Mustang still in the right lane, but now doing not much more than speed limit + 10. You eventually pull up alongside and move past him, and you must be wondering why he's now just poking along. Then you see the state trooper parked across the median and overreact, slowing quickly to less than 60. The Mustang continues on, purring by at 70. The Mustang knows where the speed traps are, and the Mustang knows that no state trooper is going to pull out and chase him for doing 70mph. Throw away your so-called "radar detectors" and just follow the Mustang's lead. No charge. dwight www.tfrog93.com |
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> This is my first real summer with my 89 5.0 and one of the toys I > wanna get is a wireless (since they dont make hardwired anymore) > mountable/hideable radar detector. > > Does it really pay off to have a detector these days? Radar or laser? > > After a google search it seems like the Whistler de3500 is my best > option. > > Is it true that having a laser detector doesnt really help cause it > has to hit you to be detected and then its too late. > > Looking for stories or opinions on this matter. > Regardless of what brand you buy, one of the most informative places you can read is http://www.valentine1.com/ -- "Yes, it is a good thing you are handy, as you clearly suck at being smart." - Herb |
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at 29 Apr 2007, Spike ] wrote in
: I have an el cheapo Cobra but I use it as an additional tool, not an oracle that will tell me if I can break the speed limit or not. It has saved my bacon a couple of times in the last 2 years. But I still keep a close eye and trust my senses. I generally flow with the speed of traffic, not trying to be at the head of the pack. What I do like is that, expecially on the backroads, it'll warn me if a LEO has someone pulled over ahead of me. As they generally leave their radar on in those cases. Giving me time to adjust speed and plent y of warning time as to cars on the side of the road. Also the newer emergency vehicles and schoolbuses appear to have (at least here in the Tampa Bay, FL area) something aboard that sets it off. Warning me of like a schoolbus stopping ahead to let off kids. Having driven in Europe most of my life were speed camera's are thick as fleas and 3Km over the limit will get you a ticket, I must say that the more relaxed attitude in the US definately is better. YOu spend way to much time in Europe watching your speedo to avoid going over (cruise is/was not as common there as here) the limit rather than watching the traffic and the vehicles around you. -- _ 2005 Mustang V6 Convertible (Mineral Grey) |_| Member Modern Mustangs of North America (MMNA) http://mustang.fdns.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:32:57 -0700, Ashton Crusher >
wrote: >On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:04:57 -0700, Spike > >wrote: > >>On 27 Apr 2007 12:01:23 -0700, wrote: >> >>>This is my first real summer with my 89 5.0 and one of the toys I >>>wanna get is a wireless (since they dont make hardwired anymore) >>>mountable/hideable radar detector. >>> >>>Does it really pay off to have a detector these days? Radar or laser? >>> >>>After a google search it seems like the Whistler de3500 is my best >>>option. >>> >>>Is it true that having a laser detector doesnt really help cause it >>>has to hit you to be detected and then its too late. >>> >>>Looking for stories or opinions on this matter. >> >>Radar and laser are both line of sight. > >It's true that for the cop to get a radar reading it's line of sight >but for picking up the radar on a radar detector the good ones will >pick them up over a hill and around a curve. I wonder how they do that. Must be magic :0) or XFiles. Seriously, it is true that, given the right terrain, they can detect before being hit, but, as a general rule I think it's a lot to bet on. |
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