Comments on: Episode 18: Beat the Radar Detector

By: adam

adam — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:20:41 +0000

Hello, I saw a technique that millitary ships use to scatter incoming radar waves, they have sprayers, (well more like big water jets called monitors), that create a wide curtain or water that surround the ship. the incoming radio wave hits the water first and is either absorbed and dissipated as heat, or is reflected at random angles.

The impracticalities of this may would be the water and the pump, transporting it ect.

The other tried and tested method would be a smoke screen. this will foil the camera ever reading the number plate. This can be achived by injecting antifreeze into the hot exhaust manifold of an engine.

By: glen m.

glen m. — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:30:33 +0000

GET A bubble type plate cover & a report-folder cover from staples office supply ..the smoked kind that looks distorted when you look though it. use 2 pieces doubled(you will have to make holes for the bolts.cover the plate then put clear plate cover over the plate..take some fine steel wool & dull the plastic cover..(Warning!! Plate cover may be Illegal in your area !!) but is not a Moving violation…

By: glen m.

glen m. — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:16:34 +0000

I have been saved from a ticket using my BEL 940 Laser -Radar5 detector…My own designed license plate cover that stops reflection of the plate.Blacked out chome..black pickup truck..headlights on..The police shoot lidar at my plate & get NO reading..My detector warns me & I HIT THE BRAKES..I dont intend on speeding BUT some times your going down a hill in a 25MPH zone and dont know your going 35MPG or more !!!!

By: Lorenzo Colanesca

Lorenzo Colanesca — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:50:35 +0000

Why not just shape the car so that it reflects at the wrong angles like with stealth aircraft?

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 14 May 2010 05:04:54 +0000

You guys should save your money and just obey the law and not speed.

By: travis

travis — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:57:26 +0000

do laser jammers work how bout photoradar work?

By: Branden

Branden — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:22:53 +0000

Radar Jammers? You can buy one that is the same size as normal radar detector, and there are liscense plate mounted ones.

By: ivan van den bogaert

ivan van den bogaert — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:43:42 +0000

Won’t the plate, with glitter glas and the magnifying plas, be reflected by night? (also cut the light from the car that enlights the plate). The flash on the camera has no effect by day because there is already enough light . By night you need a flash and this lightsource can be distorded .

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:23:20 +0000

Felix – Yes, it is possible for a police officer to radar you while in motion. (to my knowledge, at least) – Cops have an active radar that I think reports two numbers. one for each reading.. maybe one for each direction… I’m not entirely sure. But yeah, they run radar while in motion. They usually shoot laser while stationary or just sit there with their radar running.

By: felix

felix — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:30:38 +0000

Is it possible for a police radar gun to detect if you are speeding while their vehicle is in movement coming toward you or should they have to be at a complete stop for the radar gun to work.