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expired Posted by zskf61987 • Mar 10, 2021
Mar 10, 2021 4:08 AM
Uniden R3 Extreme Long Range Laser Radar Detector w/ GPS & Voice Alert
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To me, they weren't, and I bit on the R3 around $260 or so. I have had situations driving around where I'd like to know the direction of the KA alert, but I've gotten over it quickly. My car is a lightning blue cop magnet, so I just slow down on KA regardless.
To anyone buying this, chuck the user's manual and watch VortexRadar's 'R3 Configuration' video on YouTube on your phone in the car. 10m of setup and it's perfect.
But wait...non-employee post? No auto-FP for you.
Please, citizens of SD let's get this on the FP!
As previously asked, new v1.35 firmware for R7 was recently released adding GPS auto lockout functionality and additional K band filters to quiet it down a bit from falses.
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My thoughts too. I used to rock radar detectors back in the day, and even then the word was with laser, you're toast by the time it even goes off. I'd imagine by now the vast majority of radar is laser.
Plus even then there were tons of false alarms especially with automatic doors (storefronts). Seems like this thing would be really good at warning you you're nearby a walmart meanwhile if a cop shoots you, it will be too late.
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What's to prevent cops from camping in the areas that the detector now perceives signals as false?
What's to prevent cops from camping in the areas that the detector now perceives signals as false?
What's to prevent cops from camping in the areas that the detector now perceives signals as false?
I don't know the technical specifics but it uses GPS to determine your location when you get the alert, probably determines where you are when it picks it up and where you are when it goes away. After a certain number of times driving by this location and seeing the same thing it will lock it out.
Your second question is an excellent one and cops have done just that. The radar detector companies defeated that by making detectors that are able to detect multiple radar signals at the same time. Valentine One calls it a bogey counter. Now if you drive by the locked out location but it picks up two radar signals it will alert you because only one is locked out. Even without lockout, you would be used to getting the false alert at that location but now you would see "2" indicating two radar signals and know one may be legit.
My question is, and I'm NOT bashing the deal or these or anything, just purely curious - why is this price on a good detector still $200-400? I'd just imagine most of the components in these would go down in price as any commodity. Or do the few companies that make these want to recoup their costs via the Texas Instruments calculators that were invented 25 years ago but still charge $100 for it despite costing maybe $1.28 to make today?
It's like the cannonball run - race from NY to LA - those guys use radar of course (I mean, they're typically tricking out a car for max range anyway, what's another few hundred $$), BUT they also have spotters in the car with binoculars AND monitor police chatter/radio AND have people signed up along the route *just* waiting to "take one for the team" and intercept a cop pre-emptively (e.g. speed).
I mean, how fast are you all driving?
But apparently you aren't up on cops and how corrupt they are (Summer 2020 showed us only one side of the many faceted side that is cop corruption). See, in my very large capital city we have some hills and mountains. They love to hide along these areas that they have turned into speed traps.
One in particular goes from 45, to 40 very quickly, then yet again as quickly as legally allowed, to 35 mph. This is AFTER you come down a fun and cool curve on a decently steep hill/mountain. Now any city looking for ACTUAL safety would do 1 of 2 things. First is, have the speed limit set at 35MPH for the whole decline and curve to make sure we are safe and being slow on a gnarly part of a hill. Or, it's relatively safe to go 45 the whole time and decreasing the speed AFTER you get down on flat open streets isn't there to make it safe. Why do you think it's there then?
For cops to meet their quotas (which they have). I have seen COUNTLESS people pulled over right after the 35mph sign. I go up and down that road often so I'm aware, but when I don't see a cop at the bottom with his/her radar gun out - I presume they had to actually go attend to a real call.
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