Radar Detection, more like...

Thats not true, my dad has used one for a long time now. It picks up the radar from other cars as well, meaning when a cop is radaring a car half a mile up from you, it goes off, telling you to slow down. It has saved my dad from tickets a bunch of times.

-me

Bolt3 wrote: Cops don't even use speed radars that often. They can just judge how fast someone is going by looking at them and comparing the vehicles speed to other vehicles' speeds on the road.

This might be true, but they cant issue a ticket that way. They need proof.

Also, they started using lasers to detect the speed instead, meaning your radar detecor is useless.

Wait, a half mile up from where you are? Uhhhh, sure they can...

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NiQ-Toto wrote: Bolt3 wrote: Cops don't even use speed radars that often. They can just judge how fast someone is going by looking at them and comparing the vehicles speed to other vehicles' speeds on the road. This might be true, but they cant issue a ticket that way. They need proof. Also, they started using lasers to detect the speed instead, meaning your radar detecor is useless. Wait, a half mile up from where you are? Uhhhh, sure they can...

 It's true, maybe farther. My dad and I were coming back down the mountain from snowboarding, and the radar went off, so he slowed down. About 2 minutes later, sure enough, cop sitting along side the road with his radar gun out.

-me

yeah... regular old radar guns have a pretty broad range.  lasers that the state patrol use... theres no warning.

If they were illegal they wouldnt be selling them at walmart....

pb125 wrote: NiQ-Toto wrote: Bolt3 wrote: Cops don't even use speed radars that often. They can just judge how fast someone is going by looking at them and comparing the vehicles speed to other vehicles' speeds on the road. This might be true, but they cant issue a ticket that way. They need proof. Also, they started using lasers to detect the speed instead, meaning your radar detecor is useless. Wait, a half mile up from where you are? Uhhhh, sure they can...  It's true, maybe farther. My dad and I were coming back down the mountain from snowboarding, and the radar went off, so he slowed down. About 2 minutes later, sure enough, cop sitting along side the road with his radar gun out. -me

It took you two minutes to go a half of a mile?

You Wont See Me wrote: If they were illegal they wouldnt be selling them at walmart....

Blue neon lights for cars are illegal, but they sell those in retail places. Same with the window tint stuff (as said above).
"Water pipes" (aka bongs) are used for illegal purposes, but are sold under the half-lie that they'll be used for tobacco.
If you word things correctly, you can get away with selling almost anything.

Hey!

Don't knock on the fuzzbuster!

The one I had in my Reatta saved my butt countless times.

When I get my Z, I'm puttin' some $$$ into a radar detection system.

There will be sensors in my front and rear bumpers and the main control unit will be mounted under my dash.

Well worth the money if you ask me.

*Note*

Many companies that make radar/laser dectectors offer a "No Ticket Guarantee", which would be rather costly to the companies if their products didn't work. 

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whoever said that there's go off all the time...construction vehicles and the big doors at large factories emit frequencies that set them off, but it probly has a light or seperate sound for each one and guys, you can block the lasers just as easily, has anyone ever seen the phantom? it doesnt scramble radar/lasers, it grabs them and sends back a false reading, how cool is that?

No, it could be used for tobaco.