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contaygious
Active Member
Laser detection is kinda pointless since you won't know til you are tagged with the insta on guns, but this works great!
Blinder HP-905 Compact Laser Jammer Review
Blinder HP-905 Compact Laser Jammer Review
W.Petefish
Active Member
The Escort 9500 has laser shifting (i.e. laser jamming). And in answer to W.Petefish, it's legal in most states. There's a list somewhere of states it's not legal in when I went googling on the issue.
dflye
S Sig Perf 414, VIN 814
Apparently not where you live (according to the supplier), but would trust reading the info on a state run web site more than a vendor site.
http://www.radardetector.org/radar-detector-info/laws/ said:
There is a difference between shifting and Jamming. Jamming actively transmits, where shifting just alters the returned reflection. Jamming is illegal in some states where shifting is not.
contaygious
Active Member
Blinder gives a regular error on the gun i.e. "out of range" so I highly doubt you'd ever get caught anyway given its a tiny piece under bumper and cops are used to seeing errors every now and again.
W.Petefish
Active Member
I had a blinder on a car for a couple of years. No tickets, but only got set off a couple of times.
I was worried about this after being in someone else's car with a radar detector. But no, I've had very few alerts in the ~800 miles I've driven with it so far. And of the ~6 times I've gotten an alert, I then saw a police car on 4 of them. It seems like police cars emit radar even when they aren't looking as i've gotten it when passing an officer who is writing a ticket. They suggested leaving X and K off in California. I tuned K back on out of curiosity, but it still hasn't been a problem.
It doesn't have the Live thing, but it does have a manually updated database of false alarms that it locks out using GPS. Better you go read about it on Escort's site so I don't misrepresent anything. Here's a review I saw as well that mentions it reporting like 5% of the false alarms of another detector: Review: Escort 8500CI remote radar detector
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DrTaras
R254->R725->S->X->M3->M3P-->R2020?
I'm confused. Usually window tint is reported as a % of light that is let through so 100% would be essentially no tint and 5% would be near black out. It seems that your front windows are more heavily tinted than your rear side and hatchback which is opposite of what I'm used to seeing on cars. Am I reading it correctly?
I'm confused. Usually window tint is reported as a % of light that is let through so 100% would be essentially no tint and 5% would be near black out. It seems that your front windows are more heavily tinted than your rear side and hatchback which is opposite of what I'm used to seeing on cars. Am I reading it correctly?
Right. I bought minimum tint on the front and pano (since Tesla already tinted that heavily--but I wanted maximal UV protection and the added benefit of heat blocking), whereas I had a darker tint put on the back passenger and hatchback widows.
DrTaras
R254->R725->S->X->M3->M3P-->R2020?
DrTaras
R254->R725->S->X->M3->M3P-->R2020?
So I went to my friend who is a motorcycle cop, while we were at his house (this was back in January 2010, after taking my Roadster home from CES) and said, HYPOTHETICALLY lets say I had a Laser shifter on my car, and before I had a chance to finish the word "car" he was up off the couch and said, "let's play cops and robbers"! We went outside and he took his motorcycle which had the laser gun and told me to drive towards him and when I heard it go off to check my speed (it was on his street so I was not going fast). I followed instructions. After done, he asked how fast I was going & I said about 30. He showed me the gun and it read "error"! Then I asked him to give me the honest truth: If I was rolling through his speed trap and he saw that, what would he think/do? He said, 'honestly, I'd think you had a jammer but honestly, it is a ton of red tape to get the authority to search your car & a ton of paper work and court hearings to follow it through." He said that unless I had given him a reason to really want to give me a ticket, he knew that in the next few minutes someone else would roll through his trap that he'd more easily be able to take down so he'd probably just let me go. Now of course, remember, this was just a HYPOTHETICAL conversation!:redface:
DrTaras
R254->R725->S->X->M3->M3P-->R2020?
I have a similar setup to this Escort setup. (BEL STiR+ and a Laser Interceptor Jammer). Pretty new but here was my research results for those curious:
False alarms: this is where the game has moved on from Valentine etc. The escort and Bel have GPS built in, and then as you drive, if it detects a signal 3 times on the same frequency and location, it will store it and not alarm on it again (on the basis that for the exact location and frequency it's likely some stationary thing not a cop). Hugely reduces/eliminates the false problem. Yes there is also the escort live thing which connects to a network, but my research led me to believe it lacks adoption/critical mass at this point
Laser: In CA on the highway, laser is kind of the thing. Unfortunately laser detection is useless, just a notification of an impending ticket. In CA (to my knowledge) it's a fix-it ticket and very rarely issued if you get caught with it. The high end escort system has laser jamming built in (the 9500 I think), but it's a mediocre system. The Bel (also owned and made by escort) is pretty similar to the escort on radar but you can buy a la carte without the laser, and then get the Laser Interceptor which is the highest performing unit of that type
Cost: Yeah, it's ridiculous. A couple grand for parts and maybe a grand to install. A sane person would probably just drive slow or eat the tickets.
