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I love my Escort 7500(i think). Most of you are right, it does make you more nervous driver sometimes, and it does make it so whenever a song on the radio makes a background noise like your detector, you impulsively tap the brakes. The one time I got pulled over for speeding the cop said I should get rid of it and drive the limit but I still got off with just a warning (yay!)
Anyways the point I set out to make is that while I sped quite badly when I first got the 350$ radar detector, because there is defenitely an impervious to the law feeling at first, but now, about 2 years later, I almost never speed except in the day on the freeway or certain backroads, because radar detectors are truly not that great of a warning where I live.
OK so the point!
A huge amount of the time I spend on the road is on country roads with no street lights in the pitch black, so I like to know if that car coming up to me is a cop or not for sure, guessing and the spedometer watching that accompanies that is so much more worse than adjusting to the beeps of the detector.
SO: radar detectors main purpose these days : sense of security, awareness
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