Does A Radar Detector Help Anymore?

[rubberduck]

Police radar is really crude, easy to jam with wideband noise. Noise diode, band pass filter, amplifier, some cabling and antenna, front and rear. Triggered by the alarm from your radar detector.

Great idea, too bad it’s a Federal crime with hefty prison time and fines. Please do use one.

 

[PrimeTime]

I got this!

 

[ngoni]

Great idea, too bad it’s a Federal crime with hefty prison time and fines. Please do use one.

This post, from 2017, is still a good writeup. Early on jammers showed some promise against older simpler radar guns. Then the FCC made it a $100k fine + possible jail time. Since then they've driven any reputable companies out of business while radar guns have advanced to the point that any reasonable jammer is ineffective. The real snake oil salesmen will try to sell you a device that just 'reflects' a corrupted signal back to the cop and prevents a speed reading. All of these are 100% ineffective to the point that one reviewer has a standing $50,000 bounty for an effective radar jammer and it doesn't look like he's ever had to pay out.

If you're pushing enough power to actually jam police radar: 1) you pose a serious health risk to you and those around you & 2) The FCC will eventually track you down and make an example out of you.

I'm not really motivated to look up laser jammers because I can't have any of these toys where I live regardless of efficacy.

 

[shbox]

I am not a Waze user either, but it does seem to be fully responsible for creating distracted drivers.

People have to use the app on their phone to report these things, right ?

How many do you think pull over to make such a report ?

I have used the long press on the voice command button to say (ex.) "report pothole" and it does it with no screen interaction. No one told me about this, I just tried it one day to see if it would work. I'll have to remember to try it for the "not there" and see what happens.