Dash cam/Radar Detector Combo

[Rbwalters]

Has anyone installed a dash cam/radar detector combo?

If so, how have they worked out? Any preferences on models?

I'm looking at the Escort Redline 360c Laser Radar Detector & M2 Smart Dash cam bundle.

Thanks.

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[Tucson_Jim]

I can only speak to the Redline 360c. Love it. Sensitivity is off the charts and I can confirm that laser detection works well. I’m using a BlackVue 970 with it and no problems.

 

[Rbwalters]

Thanks Jim.

 

[AutoX]

I don't bother with Radar Detectors any longer. Just subscribe to legal plan. It's relatively cheap, and if you get a ticket, they will fight it for you.

Got my wife off a few tickets.

 

[Rbwalters]

I don't bother with Radar Detectors any longer. Just subscribe to legal plan. It's relatively cheap, and if you get a ticket, they will fight it for you.

Got my wife off a few tickets.

I guess that's one way to do it!

 

[AutoX]

I guess that's one way to do it!

I used to run a radar detector, but I find that Waze is enough. Figured if you get pulled over with a radar detector, you're going to get a ticket. Whereas you might get a warning if you don't have one.

Laser is useless unless you have a jammer. Otherwise, if it goes off, you're already tagged.

I do have a hardwired Viofo dashcam which has been great. Make sure you get one that has a capacitor and not battery though.

 

[whitex]

Has anyone installed a dash cam/radar detector combo?

If so, how have they worked out? Any preferences on models?

I'm looking at the Escort Redline 360c Laser Radar Detector & M2 Smart Dash cam bundle.

Thanks.

Do you have "Thermally and Noise Insulated Glass" option? If so, any window mount detector will be significantly neutered.

 

[whitex]

I don't bother with Radar Detectors any longer. Just subscribe to legal plan. It's relatively cheap, and if you get a ticket, they will fight it for you.

Got my wife off a few tickets.

Avoiding tickets seems much less hassle for me. Also, since not all tickets can be won, it adds another layer of protection - first, try to avoid tickets, only if that doesn't work, pay a lawyer to fight it.

 

[AutoX]

Avoiding tickets seems much less hassle for me. Also, since not all tickets can be won, it adds another layer of protection - first, try to avoid tickets, only if that doesn't work, pay a lawyer to fight it.

I agree. But I'm not sure how useful a radar detector is nowadays. It might even be detrimental in the sense that you are going to get a ticket if pulled over with one, no chance of getting a warning.

I think using waze, and general prudence like not going way faster the flow of traffic is enough to avoid most speeding tickets.

 

[whitex]

I agree. But I'm not sure how useful a radar detector is nowadays. It might even be detrimental in the sense that you are going to get a ticket if pulled over with one, no chance of getting a warning.

Cops are people, and people are lazy by nature. Most of them run their radar continuously when driving or sitting on a side of the road, so you detect them from over a mile away. So it definitely comes useful there.

If you are worried about getting pulled over with one, hide it. Plenty of ideas out there, from custom enclosures on the windshield, or on the roof, or even inside a tissue box on the dash. Or get a remote mount RDD, use hidden buttons for control, or it totally paranoid only use your phone to control them so you can lock it when pulled over. If doing remote mount, add laser countermeasures so you jam a laser until you slow down to posted speed limit.

I think using waze, and general prudence like not going way faster the flow of traffic is enough to avoid most speeding tickets.

Going with traffic is not a valid defense against a ticket. The only way to guarantee is to simply never go over posted speed limit, which of course is always an option.

 

[Rbwalters]

Going with traffic is not a valid defense against a ticket. The only way to guarantee is to simply never go over posted speed limit, which of course is always an option.

Not so in Oregon where we have what is called the Basic Speed Rule, which requires your speed to be "reasonable and prudent, having due regard to all of the following: (a) The traffic." ORS 811.100. The posted speed is presumptively a violation of the basic speed rule, but the traffic flow going faster can in fact be a defense.*

* Although I am a lawyer, this should not be considered legal advice.

 

[whitex]

Not so in Oregon where we have what is called the Basic Speed Rule, which requires your speed to be "reasonable and prudent, having due regard to all of the following: (a) The traffic." ORS 811.100. The posted speed is presumptively a violation of the basic speed rule, but the traffic flow going faster can in fact be a defense.*

* Although I am a lawyer, this should not be considered legal advice.

Any precedents councilor, where someone got off a speeding ticket by claiming they had to speed in order to keep a safe distance to the car behind them, and it was accepted as "reasonable and prudent, having due regard of the traffic behind the car"?

PS> I tried this defense many years ago when I was a teenager in Canada. The judge kindly explained to me that speeding is defined as exceeding speed limit, regardless of circumstances. Not even if I had a dying Canadian Prime Minister in my car on the way to a hospital, would it constitute a valid defense against speeding in court (though he also mentioned that the police would have the discretion whether or not to ticket me).

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