Radar Guns: Facts Everyone Should Know
My interest in radar products (such as a radar detector or a radar jammer) has started in 1994. There I was, cautiously driving my automobile at night, well within the speed range, when out of nowhere, a police officer signals me to stop. “Is there a problem, officer?” I quietly queried? According to the police officer, who was checking cars for speeding, I was going over the speed limit. Regardless of how hard I attempted to persuade him that I didn’t, he wouldn’t let me go. And why would he?
What specificallyfrustrated me is that I was not speeding – not at all. I wasn’t even close! Clearly his radar gun was not working properly. I did a significant amount of research on the topic, read about the way radar guns operate, read many radar detector reviews, and found out that often there is a mistake in the speed the radar gun calculates. Naturally, the vast majority of people who receive a speeding ticket simply give up when in fact they should argue their case in court (which is aware of these problems, but who has the time and patience to fight the system? I never did either.
Since then I’ve become somewhat of an advocate of radar detectors, and in fact, dedicated much of my time to discovering the best radar detector (in my opinion, the passport 9500ix). Yes, it allows people to go pass the speed limit, but many people will do it anyway. What I consider its main strength is it shields us from being falsely accused of over speeding. Until more reliable radar guns are manufactured, I feel this is our only way of safeguarding ourselves from getting speeding ticket without going over the speed limit.