Uniden R7 or should I drive the speed limit

[MFNG]

I drive fast...usually set the cruise @ 84 mph or so. I have not used a radar detector in 30 years.

Simply follow these rules.

1. Never be the lead car, always have someone out in front of you so you can visually see brake lights. Everyone brakes when they see a cop.
2. Never speed around a curve or over a hill.
3. Check all over passes and on ramps.
4. Find a rabbit, keep 1/8 back from someone who drives as fast as you.
5. stay in the right lane except to pass. cops train radar on the left lane.
6. WAZE!!!!!!!!

Best advice here. In the Midwest where I’m from there is a turn-around about every 1/2 mile or so in the median. Keep and eye out for them there too if you’re coming through “fly-over” country.

Most cops will not even bother coming after you as long as they see you’re slowing down once you see them. An alert driver is not one they are after, it’s the ******* that blows past them without even attempting to slow down that they’ll tag.

 

[REMIX]

V1 user here for 20 years. Now with an R3 which I got before they announced the R7. I'm so tempted to upgrade.

Waze is great, but where a RD shines is at night when the reports are thin and they are harder to spot.

 

[Sgt Beavis]

The Waze app, and being alert, has saved my ass more than any radar detector ever could. I once drove from Denton, TX to Austin in my Porsche Cayenne. I was doing 140mph any time I there were no cars around me. Waze saved me from going to jail on several occasions. It also helps to only speed in open areas where there are few hiding spots, slow down before cresting any hills, watch for brake lights a 1/4mile or more ahead of you, etc., etc., etc. Being alert REALLY helps. I haven’t had a speeding ticket since 2004 and that was one of the times I wasn’t paying attention..

That said, a radar/laser detector certainly can’t hurt.

 

[Russ103]

I found it interesting as well. My formula has been +4.9 mph in certain states, +9.9 mph in other states. This limited tickets, though I would still get the occasional warnings. The alarms made me more cautious/slower, especially when going +9.9. The false alarms added to the caution. FYI in SD (South Dakota) with the 80 mph limit, troopers are ticketing around 3mph over.

WTF... I believe you. Just think that’s ridiculous.

If you’re going to detect radar/lidar, it’s just as important to jam them IMO.