re: Do people still use radar detectors?

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use Wayz. seems to do the job

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^ this

7mph over on a cross country drive offsets fuel stops.

14 mph over... You get there an hour earlier for every 700 miles.

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Are they still useful?

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Radar detectors were once very useful back when police still used radar guns (the beam was very, very wide, and if they pointed it at a car far ahead of you, you could still pick up some of the remnant of the beam on your car's radar detector and know that the police were out nearby hunting for speeders).

However, these days police use laser guns, not radar guns. Laser guns produce a single, narrow beam from the officer directly to your car. This means that if your laser detector picks up the beam then you have already been zapped by the police, and it is too late to try to slow down. Best hope at that point is to just take the first side road that you see, then hit the gas and just try to get out of there before the officer can get to where you are.

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However, these days police use laser guns, not radar guns. Laser guns produce a single, narrow beam from the officer directly to your car. This means that if your laser detector picks up the beam then you have already been zapped by the police, and it is too late to try to slow down. Best hope at that point is to just take the first side road that you see, then hit the gas and just try to get out of there before the officer can get to where you are.

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Very few departments use laser guns. Most departments use instant on Ka Band radar on a variety of frequencies. Quality radar detectors alert on them far in advance.

I run an escort redline 360C with deflectors (shifters) up front. Also keep Waze on. It has paid for itself many times over.

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I just don't speed. I've made the drive from shreveport to Pierre Part so many times in the last 15 years that I've found 3 or 4 or even 10 mph over the speed limit doesn't really save all that much time.

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So your smartphone apps then report back to your insurance company you are a safe, compliant driver. Good for you!

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Very few departments use laser guns

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This is what is true. In fact, most don’t even use the instant on. Most just keep it on unless they feel like hunting. But hunting takes effort. Think like cops are people and you understand why they would choose the easiest way possible when you can still catch anyone you want either way.

Ticket hunters are always a threat to any detection which is why the lead decoy is important. Let them catch the instant on and you catch the cop. I feel like we always try and find waldo when the uniden starts chirping.

The only speeding ticket I've ever gotten is when I was in college and was running my brothers radar detector.

Seriously that drive sucks.