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Originally Posted by TambourineMan  It is really not that important which radar (laser) detector works the best for laser detection, as the chances of it saving you are slim or none. the laser gun gets your speed so fast there is no way you can react in time to reduce speed to PSL, or even close to it. To protect against laser, you need a laser jammer which reacts sufficiently fast to jam the gun. |
I agree with what you say, but for those living in areas where jammers are illegal, a radar detector + Veil may be their only solution.
I personally had a laser save with a Bel 990i in 2003. I had no Veil (or anything else). In fact it was my first laser hit on that detector and I don't know if it was the car targeted in front of me (unlikely) or whether I was just very lucky, but if I didn't get that alert, on that particular day, I would have been toast.
And I agree with TSi+WRX in that my experience is that going down to the highway to shoot lidar; 80% of the time I can get a reading in under 1 second...but then there are other times when it takes a few seconds. A few seconds and a good radar (laser) detector can be the difference between a ticket or a save.
In fact on the day we tested out the 6 jammers shown on our YouTube vids, there was this once incidence where a SUV (not in our group) was coming towards us and the lidar operator shot him for speed. He couldn't get a reading until which time yelled out to us "He must have a jammer!!" Car drives past and there was this old couple in there, that in no way could have possibly had a jammer, but on that occasion, he couldn't get a reading straight away.