GOOD radar detectors, and there are a very few of them, work extremely well. If you get anything less than a Valentine One or top-line unit from Escort or Bel, you might as well poop in a plastic box and tape it to your dashboard. But even the best detector is useless if you don't know how to interpret its warnings, and is no substitute for alertness and intelligence. Continuously watch traffic in all directions, anticipate trouble spots and patrol hidey-holes, and don't attract unwanted attention to yourself by driving like a crackhead chimpanzee in a brightly-colored car.
GOOD radar detectors, and there are a very few of them, work extremely well. If you get anything less than a Valentine One or top-line unit from Escort or Bel, you might as well poop in a plastic box and tape it to your dashboard. But even the best detector is useless if you don't know how to interpret its warnings, and is no substitute for alertness and intelligence. Continuously watch traffic in all directions, anticipate trouble spots and patrol hidey-holes, and don't attract unwanted attention to yourself by driving like a crackhead chimpanzee in a brightly-colored car.