• How to Choose Your Radar Detector
• Performance is King
• POP is POOP
• Use the Correct Mode
• Radar Jammers/Scramblers Don't Work
• How to Effectively Use a Radar Detector
• Bel vs. Escort vs. Valentine
• How to Choose Your Radar Detector
• Laser Enforcement
• Photo Enforcement
• Radar Roy’s Top Radar Detector Picks
• Radar Roy’s Top Laser Jammer Picks

Laser Enforcement

Did you know that your radar detector is WORTHLESS in defending you in a laser trap?

The differences between Radar and Laser Enforcement

There is a big difference between police radar and laser enforcement!

Police Radar Enforcement

It is estimated that 75% of the traffic enforcement devices used by police today are radar guns.

Radar guns transmit a microwave radio signal that is sent out, reflected off a moving object such as a car, and bounced back to the radar gun where the radio waves are analyzed by computer and your speed is displayed to the officer.
These radio waves can travel great distances and are very wide, making it easy for a good radar detector to pick-up stray signals, giving you plenty of advanced warning of the officer ahead.

Radar guns can also be hand held or mounted to the patrol car and can be used while the officer is stationary or moving.

Police Laser Enforcement

A growing trend today is police departments moving to laser (lidar) enforcement and it is estimated that there are over 70,000 police laser guns in use today in the USA.

These guns transmit a beam of infrared light at a frequency of 330 terahertz.

This light beam is only 18 inches wide at 500 feet and gets smaller as you approach the officer.

This narrow light beam is aimed by the officer to a reflective area on your vehicle, such as your headlamps or front license plate.

The officer can only use the laser gun while he is stationary.

Unless your radar detector is within this 18" circle, or it picks up "scatter" from the beam, your radar detector will never alert.

And by chance it does, it is too late as the officer has already obtained your speed.

The use of lidar varies from state to state.

As an example police in Hawaii use laser exclusively. Florida is split 50/50, with most local police departments using laser and highway patrol officers using radar. In Pennsylvania, police laser guns are not used at all.

Laser Countermeasure Devices:

Thankfully there are devices on the market that can provide you with 100% protection against these police laser guns.

The Veil Stealth Coating

When police target your vehicle with a lidar gun, they normally target the front, and aim at either the headlights or license plate.
The Veil Stealth Coating was developed to reduce the reflectivity of police lidar, when applied to these areas.

During several independent tests performed by Speed Measurement Laboratories, The Guys of Lidar and myself, the Veil was found to reduce the range of a police laser gun as much as 72%.

Because of this with a good radar detector that is mounted, your detector now becomes a ticket defender instead of a ticket notifier during laser ambushes, thus saving you from an expensive speeding ticket.

Laser Jammers:

First off there are two basic types of laser jammers, active and passive.

Passive Laser Jammers:

Passive jammers claim that they can disrupt a police radar and/or laser signal by reflecting back to the officers gun.

These passive devices do not work, and I’m so confident that they will fail in protecting you, that I’m offering a $50,000.00 reward to anyone that can show me a passive jammer that does work.

Active Laser Jammers:

On the other hand, active jammers are very effective in jamming police laser.

Once an active laser jammer senses the presence of a police lidar beam it activates and sends out its own light beam, overpowering the police laser gun.

I explain the theory this way:

"I shine a hundred candle power flashlight at you and you respond by shinning a million candle power flashlight at me. Your more powerful flashlight washes out mine"

All quality active laser jammers are designed to mount in the grill area of your vehicle.

Some, like the Escort Blinder HP-905 and Laser Interceptor are also available with three or four head modules enabling you to provide rear protection.

As laser Jammers are illegal in the states of Nebraska, Minnesota, Utah, California, Oklahoma, Virginia, Colorado, Illinois and Washington DC. I recommend models such as the Blinder HP-905, the Laser Interceptor or the Escort ShifterPro, which you can program to automatically shut off after activation, to reduce suspicions by officers that you’re jamming them.