re: Who here has a Radar Detector in their vehicle?

I've had an Escort 9500ix for a couple years now and love it. It's like a license to speed. I never expected to love it this much and had never used one up until a couple years ago. I decided to get one when I had to drive to Dallas to pick up my Porsche a couple years ago - figured I'd want to play a bit on the long drive back home. I had just assumed that virtually all cops use lasers now, but that is not the case at all. We do a lot of out of state travel for my kid's karate tournaments - well over a dozen out of state trips a year - so I put a lot of miles on the interstate. In the two years I've been using mine, I've only encountered laser 3 times. And what surprises me the most is that the overwhelming majority of cop cars drive around with their radar on ALL the time. I rarely see a cop car that I wasn't alerted to first, usually about a half mile away. On the last few trips I've taken, which averaged around 500 miles each way, I've averaged around 76 mph for the whole trip. And I don't mean that's what I'm driving on the interstate - I mean stops and everything, from the time I leave my house til I arrive at my destination, I average 76 mph for the entire trip. On the interstate I'm usually doing 82-85. If something happened to mine, I'd buy another tomorrow. It's indispensable for the way I drive - especially in the ticket target I drive now.