Speeding tickets fines and punishments continue to increase. There are numerous products a person can buy to detect or even block laser and radar guns, and GPS units that warn of most known redlight cameras.
Speeding tickets fines and punishments continue to increase. There are numerous products a person can buy to detect or even block laser and radar guns, and GPS units that warn of most known redlight cameras. Here is the list and effectiveness:
1. Radar jammers. Illegal and not available.
2. Radar scramblers: Ineffective
3. Redlight camera GPS. Totally warning effective ONLY if camera locale is in the software.
4. Laser jammers: Legal/Illegal depending on the state. Reduce laser detection range about 50%.
5. Laser absorbing paint: Legal. Reduce laser detection range about 50%.
6. Combination laser jammer & absorbing paint: reduces detection range about 70%
7. Radar absorbing paint: legal. Difficult to find and questionable effectiveness.
8. Radar detectors: From virtually worthless to highly effective depending on price. Most expensive models can not be detected.
COST: The best of everything - $2000 plus installation.
Should such products be legal to have on/in your vehicle?
Speeding tickets fines and punishments continue to increase. There are numerous products a person can buy to detect or even block laser and radar guns, and GPS units that warn of most known redlight cameras.
Speeding tickets fines and punishments continue to increase. There are numerous products a person can buy to detect or even block laser and radar guns, and GPS units that warn of most known redlight cameras. Here is the list and effectiveness:
1. Radar jammers. Illegal and not available.
2. Radar scramblers: Ineffective
3. Redlight camera GPS. Totally warning effective ONLY if camera locale is in the software.
4. Laser jammers: Legal/Illegal depending on the state. Reduce laser detection range about 50%.
5. Laser absorbing paint: Legal. Reduce laser detection range about 50%.
6. Combination laser jammer & absorbing paint: reduces detection range about 70%
7. Radar absorbing paint: legal. Difficult to find and questionable effectiveness.
8. Radar detectors: From virtually worthless to highly effective depending on price. Most expensive models can not be detected.
COST: The best of everything - $2000 plus installation.
Should such products be legal to have on/in your vehicle?
Anything that warns you.... Legal.
Any device that jams... Illegal.
Why illegal? Should it also be illegal for you to encrypt files on your computer?
No.
It has everything to do with Radio Broadcasts being subject to regulation by the FCC.
I believe that jammers should be illegal, due to the fact that they are interfering with the police's ability to implement the law. Awareness devices are no more effective then just seeing the cop or having a buddy who knows about the speed traps. I can think of no reason for why "knowledge" should be illegal, so the Awareness/Detection devices should be legal.
The jammers are illegal in most states, but my grandfather had a radar detector. It didn't work very well and lit up for no reason a lot.
The absorbing/reflecting paint is kind of a strange hybrid of the two; they're passive but more than just knowledge. It's a bit of a moot point though; they're rare, expensive, and relatively non-effective.
Of course, you could just drive at a reasonable speed.
Yes, I understand WHO made it illegal. Why should it be illegal? Encryption codes on computers interfere with police investigations of crimes FAR greater than speeding. Laser jammers are not illegal because they are under the F.D.A. and there are lots of applications of lasers. Radar jammers being illegal is a bit curious, because many, many cars now use radar for proximity sensors - which in effect makes them very short range radar jammers at certain frequencies.
Actually, it is not absorbing. Rather, not very reflective. Depending on the car and it's shape, it can be very effective. What it does is shortens the range at which the radar can read a car. Because radar would measure everything if it could read on a small feedby, the level of return radar has to be relatively high. Otherwise it could pick of leaves on a tree behind the car and say the car was going 10 mph or 100 mpd if a leaf was flickering in the wind a certain way.
What radar most picks up on are license plates, chrome and headlights as they best reflect back. So if the headlights are painted with a semi-clear flat-type paint - like slightly tinted headlights - and the same with chrome pieces and a front license plate (if required), the car has to be closer before radar can pick it up. For some cars, the distance is reduced by about 2/3rds, depending on the unit the officer is using.
Laser jammers work on the same concept of allowing you more tip to see the officer - plus react to your detectors.
Speeding tickets fines and punishments continue to increase. There are numerous products a person can buy to detect or even block laser and radar guns, and GPS units that warn of most known redlight cameras.
Speeding tickets fines and punishments continue to increase. There are numerous products a person can buy to detect or even block laser and radar guns, and GPS units that warn of most known redlight cameras. Here is the list and effectiveness:
1. Radar jammers. Illegal and not available.
2. Radar scramblers: Ineffective
3. Redlight camera GPS. Totally warning effective ONLY if camera locale is in the software.
4. Laser jammers: Legal/Illegal depending on the state. Reduce laser detection range about 50%.
5. Laser absorbing paint: Legal. Reduce laser detection range about 50%.
6. Combination laser jammer & absorbing paint: reduces detection range about 70%
7. Radar absorbing paint: legal. Difficult to find and questionable effectiveness.
8. Radar detectors: From virtually worthless to highly effective depending on price. Most expensive models can not be detected.
COST: The best of everything - $2000 plus installation.
Should such products be legal to have on/in your vehicle?
As long as speeding tickets have as much or more to do with providing revenue to the local gov, anti-radar/etc stuff should not be illegal.
Consider it similar to hiring a professional accountant to minimize your tax burden. :mrgreen:
I am disappointed that you actually think that.
Maybe it works that way in South Carolina, but in NORTH Carolina all fines are paid to the Administrative Office of the Court, which is state run, and has little to do with local government.
Anything that warns you.... Legal.
Any device that jams... Illegal.
This was 30 years ago so it may have since changed, but when I was stationed in Virginia radar detectors were illegal. There were even big signs on the highways as soon as you entered from another state. Also, ads for radar detectors in car magazines had disclaimer that they could not ship to Virginia addresses.
Regarding the RLC, there are many products available to defeat them, from the sublime to the ridiculous.
One is called Photoblocker, and it works, but only for a few months and must then be reapplied. Simply a clear spray that somehow diffuses light from the flashers the cameras use for the picture. It cannot be seen on the tag, but somehow it makes it so that such cameras cannot read the tag number.
Another cottage industry, eh? :lol:
If a police car with an ANPR camera pings up a "blank" plate, you'll be busted anyway.
Busted for what?If a police car with an ANPR camera pings up a "blank" plate, you'll be busted anyway.
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