Paul99EX

I have a cobra, older model, the laser dector doesnt work for ----, but the radar saved my *** 100's of times. they way I look at it, if it saves you 1 time, its payed off. and the emergencey warning dector works great too, ie. emergency vehicles and accidents

racerex

The Valentine one is seriousy the only one worth it. Find any objective comparison test and they are so far ahead its not even funny. A friend of mine just picked one up and its incredible to see how accurate it is.

turboDA6

that thing better be the ---- if it cost 300 ------ dollars

turboDA6

man, do these things actually detect cops or only cops with their radar's on...

Paul99EX

hence the name "radar/laser detector" its not a "po po detector"

turboDA6

but it can detect on emergency which is fire/ambulance which all run on the same frequency type ----. jus thought maybe it would detect some po po's too lol.

Doofnoil

um, just buy a scanner and listen to the truckers on th highway, they tell each other when to slow down because of a cop. Radar detectors are ---- in the cities.

crxtuner

Most ambulances and police cars are equiped with a transmitter that sends a signal to the signal lights to make them turn green in the direction that they are headed so they can get where they need to go faster, so when they have these transmitters on radar/laser detectors may go off which is useful to give u time to get out of there way.

T-RO

I think that may be an urban legend.
Im sure SOME emergency vehicles may have a "light changer" (for lack of better term) in them but i dont think they are prevalent. I havent seen one yet and i dont know any Po-Po vehicles here in Florida with them.

racerex

You mean these?
http://www.skyoptics.com/Mirt.htm

I've debated on buying one for a long time, but it wouldn't be worth it here. When I lived in Tucson, all of the stoplights can be activated by one of these, but where I'm at its hit and miss.

I have actually designed a homemade one, all it is is a strobe operating at 14 hz. I did not have any sort infrared filter for it though, and once again, it really wouldn't be super useful where i drive.