Escort radar detector

[6spd68]

Looking older sometimes helps. 

One thing I look forward too with age...  Easier experiences with Ontario's finest...

[charge69]

I have a passport in both of our everyday vehicles and travel a bit between Houston and San Antonio on I-10.  The terrain is mostly flat with some hills closer to San Antonio. The passport detector usually picks up radar easily 2 to 3 miles away with plenty of time if I need it to slow down. I really think it is the best one out there. However: I use mine mainly for "informational purposes" as I like to know where the police are whether I am speeding or not.

That said, to me, the laser part is almost useless on it as it has never warned me in what I would call enough time to slow down before getting hit.  The last time I went to San Antonio I was travelling on Beltway 8, getting around to I-10 from my home north of Houston, and was hit by a laser just as I topped an overpass. I was speeding a little but was travelling with a pack of 8 to 10 cars all going a little fast.

As I went by, he put the laser gun away and got into his Tahoe police vehicle. I was not sure which of us he was going after but quickly learned it was me as he pulled up behind me and turned his lights on. I pulled over and got my drivers license and CHL out to give to him as we are supposed to do. My G30 Glock  .45 loaded with an extra loaded magazine inside was in a "day planner" holster right next to me in the drivers seat.

He walked up to the car and said "do you know you were going 82mph in a 65mph area?" I said I did not know how fast I was going but could have been going that fast as I was just travelling with the pack! I gave him both licenses and he quickly looked at my CHL and handed it back to me without a comment. He asked about insurance and we gave him our insurance card and he just said "wait here, please" and walked back to his cruiser to run the info. in his computer, I guess.

After about a minute, he returned to the side of our car, handed me my license and said "slow down a little and have a nice day" !  Not even a warning ticket!  I smiled all the way to San Antonio and considered that my "lucky day" but confirmed again the laser part does not give you enough warning!

[Fred]

This is all very interesting. Thanks for sharing your opinions and experiences. 

[Fred]

For the record, I am a defensive driver and consider myself one of the safest drivers on the road. Always watching out for others and trying to stay a step ahead of them has saved me a few times from getting plowed into. Some drivers are just oblivious to what's going on around them.

I agree. The only way to be safe on our roads these days is to pay attention to what all the other drivers are doing.

[ws23rt]

I had a fuzzbuster in the late seventies/ early eighties. A state patrol asked me one time if it saved me any money.  I told him maybe 3-4 hundred bucks over a couple of years.

He was just interested and said he doesn't use his radar much.  Said he likes the sport of pacing the speeder . (I got a ticket)

Another time with the same officer I was on the four lane interstate in my hemi RR that likes 80mph- at night- no other cars on the road. Something caught my eye to my right. He was next to me in the right lane and had turned on his dome light. (no head lights).  He had a big grin. (I got a ticket then too)

[Fred]

I had a fuzzbuster in the late seventies/ early eighties. A state patrol asked me one time if it saved me any money.  I told him maybe 3-4 hundred bucks over a couple of years.

He was just interested and said he doesn't use his radar much.  Said he likes the sport of pacing the speeder . (I got a ticket)

Another time with the same officer I was on the four lane interstate in my hemi RR that likes 80mph- at night- no other cars on the road. Something caught my eye to my right. He was next to me in the right lane and had turned on his dome light. (no head lights).  He had a big grin. (I got a ticket then too)

That's funny in a not so funny way.