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Cobra's radar detectors help you stay safe and alert. Combined with laser detection technology, we have radar detectors for sale that offer 'instant-on' detection to quickly recognize all radar signals from the front and rear of your vehicle. Our advanced technology reduces false alerts so you can drive with peace of mind.

For both long range radar detection and the best in responsiveness against instant on radar, get the Uniden R8. It offers outstanding performance, reasonable false alert filtering, arrows, GPS capabilities, plus bonus capabilities like photo radar detection and bluetooth.

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If you do a lot of driving in tough terrain with mountains, hills, and trees, and you want the highest level of protection against both constant on and instant on police radar, pick up the R8. It offers outstanding range and quick responsiveness to keep you protected against the main forms of radar.

The detector itself is a little simpler than the competition and so it lacks important features like photo radar detection, GPS, and a dedicated frequency display. Fortunately you can add back in some of these features (and more) by using your phone.

Valentine has their own free app called V1Connection for Android and iOS that lets you change settings, view alerts, and update your radar detector over the air. However, with some third party apps you can add in some additional useful features such as automatic GPS lockouts to learn and filter out unwanted alerts from speed signs and door openers. Other detectors can do this with their built-in GPS, but the V1 needs a phone to do it. Once you add a phone though, the autolockouts work better and are more sophisticated than anything built in to a detector.

The Uniden R4 is a top performing windshield mount radar detector with better detection range than any other non-arrow radar detector. If you drive in difficult terrain with hills, curves, and trees, the R4 is an excellent pick to help sniff out radar at a distance and should be on your short list.

The Uniden R4 is the best performing non-arrow radar detector available. It adds automatic GPS lockouts, good BSM filtering, and photo radar detection. If you drive in difficult terrain and need all the sensitivity you can get, the R4 is an excellent pick. Click here to purchase the R4.

Let's be clear: Yes, radar detectors are about situational awareness, but they're about one very particular type of awareness, spotting the police before they spot you. So, it's natural to ask if such a subversion of authority is legal.

The succinct answer is that in the United States of America, unless you are in Virginia, Washington D.C. or on a military base, radar detectors are legal for use in non-commercial vehicles under 18,000 pounds.

For commercial drivers, federal law prohibits the use of detectors in vehicles in excess of 10,000 pounds. However, state laws vary, so check the particulars of the states you'll be driving through. In Illinois, New York and New Jersey, radar detectors are prohibited in all commercial vehicles, regardless of weight.

While radar detectors are legal for most passenger vehicles, some states do have laws restricting windshield mounts. In California and Minnesota in particular, it is illegal to mount anything to the windshield that might obstruct your view. While these laws aren't always strictly enforced, you may consider exploring visor-mount options or one of several accessories allowing detectors to mount to your rearview mirror.

One type of electronic device that's illegal in every state by federal mandate is a radar jammer. Unlike detectors, jammers actually interfere with law enforcement's ability to read a signal and using one can result in a $50,000 fine in addition to prison time.

If you're reading this, you probably already know whether you're the kind of driver who would be well-suited to operating a radar detector. Still, it's useful to dispense with the notion that radar detectors are just for speed demons.

\"Regardless of the type of driver you are, the first question to ask yourself is if accessing more information on the road will be helpful,\" says Joseph Sherbondy, the director of the Radar Category for Cedar Electronics, which manufactures the Cobra and Escort brands. \"If you've ever used programs like Waze or Google Maps to inform driving decisions, then you'd likely benefit from a radar detector.\"

We've found you'll get a plug-and-play experience from the Cobra RAD 480i, a user-friendly radar detector with expanded capabilities provided via its smartphone integration. Similarly, you'll get a great out-of-the-box experience from Escort's Redline 360c, but the gulf between these two detectors' feature sets and prices is enormous. So, usability is just one consideration.

Starting at the low end of the radar detector price scale, you immediately come up against a challenge. Is a detector worth buying at all if you don't have the money to invest in a product with at least mid-level quality and reliable product support? Bravy would argue there's a point of diminishing returns.

Differences between mid-tier and top-tier radar detectors are less pronounced. Pricier models will get you niceties like directional arrows, which help you locate the source of radar signals. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and MultiRadar detection are also generally only found in higher-end units.

Whether you shop in a brick-and-mortar store or online, you're going to see long, bulleted lists that contain a dizzying array of features. Here are the things to actually pay attention to, according to our radar detector experts.

Some features sound impressive until you realize it's nothing unique. \"360-degree detection,\" Bravy says, listing some of his favorite non-features. \"Every detector, every detector can detect from all different directions.\" And lest you think this claim is reserved for units with locating arrows, it's not. The most inexpensive radar detectors will still make a big deal of their ability to sense signals from all directions even though they can't point you in the direction of the source.

\"For drivers who want to remain discreet, manufacturers have introduced stealth capabilities to go undetected,\" Sherbondy explains. \"Some companies report having stealth in their detectors, but in many cases, this approach hard codes the technology into the device, limiting its effectiveness for the future.\" As technology in the radar arms race evolves, hard coded detectors are left behind.

A radar detector can be a big investment, especially if you're purchasing a top-performing window-mount unit or a custom installed detector, and the longer you plan to keep it, the more future-proof it should be. Here are a couple of features that aren't a big deal now, but may compromise your detector down the line if it doesn't have them.

A good way to check for this is to visit the support page of the manufacturer's website and look for the radar detector you're researching. Check for the frequency and recency of available updates in the Downloads section, being mindful that if it's a brand-new product, there may not be many updates yet.

Bravy agrees that regular updates are the first step to futureproofing a detector. \"The second thing, in terms of new technology, that comes back to photo radar ... automated speed enforcement,\" he says. \"Companies have had to adapt and build in new capabilities to detect these new photo radar guns that are trying to not be detected.\" When looking for photo radar features, note that it may also be called MultaRadar, MRCD or MRCT. To learn more about it, see below.

Bravy chuckles at this suggestion. While the radar-lidar mix varies by location, in Seattle where he performs extensive testing of radar detectors and laser jammers, he estimates radar usage at around 90%. There are good reasons why radar will remain a significant part of the law enforcement toolkit for some time to come.

\"Radar can be used while officers are moving,\" Bravy explains. \"Whereas laser can only be used when the officer is stationary.\" Add to that the fact that new types of radar are still being developed such as the aforementioned photo radar. \"I don't see officers going away from radar. If anything, they're just upgrading to newer radar guns.\"

Speed detection technologies can be broadly separated into two categories: Radio Detection And Ranging (radar) and Light Detection And Ranging (lidar). Both work by shooting a signal, either radio waves or light pulses, toward a moving vehicle and measuring the change over time in the signals bouncing back.

In both technologies, this is a phenomenon known as doppler shift. As a vehicle moves closer to the radar-emitting source, the reflected waves return at a higher and higher frequency. A radar gun calculates this increasing rate and returns a figure in miles per hour. Though they work on the same basic principle, radar is comparatively sloppy next to lidar, which we will explore later on. Meanwhile, it's the lack of precision in radar guns that gives radar detectors their advantage.

The term \"radar detector\" is a mostly accurate catch-all name for devices designed to detect the presence of law enforcement speed monitoring. Once upon a time, a radar detector was exactly that: a simple box which alerted the driver to the presence of stray radar signals, likely originating from police elsewhere in the area.

Now radar detectors are a mix of technologies such as GPS, laser detection, filtering algorithms, data from the cloud and, yes, good old-fashioned radar detection, with the goal of accomplishing the same thing.

At the heart of a radar detector is a superheterodyne receiver, which can pick up electromagnetic radiation emanating from a police officer's doppler gun. The reason that detectors can warn of police presence sometimes miles in advance is because radar guns are inexact. As they shoot out a signal, the wave spreads beyond the intended target and proceeds to bounce off other surrounding objects, sending it in unintended directions. e24fc04721