"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." But the primary purpose of any decent detector is to sniff out various types of police radar—X, K, and Ka ...

Radar speed-detection capabilities were first developed in 1935 by a Bobby in Britain who had his eyes set on your wallet. Some 30 years on, a fed-up comrade and engineer invented one of the earliest ...

I drive cars for a living. I’m no stranger to a radar detector constantly chittering away as I drive through suburbia filled with innocuous emitters competing for its attention. For almost a decade, I ...

Radar detectors have been part of American driving culture for decades. When radar guns became common in the 1950s and 60s ...

Radar detectors can identify the signature of police radar guns, alerting you to their presence. Sometimes, this extra warning is the difference between you and a costly ticket — so long as they’re ...

Police officers use radar to assess whether you’re speeding. And despite what many people may think, if you don’t live in Virginia, Washington D.C. or Mississippi, it’s perfectly legal to use a radar ...

When I was growing up, my father wouldn’t set foot outside without a radar detector in operation. All of our family trips were punctuated by ominous beeps and flashing lights of the Escort or ...

Knowledge is power. It’s an axiom as old as time…or at least Francis Bacon. It’s also a good summary of the reason to buy a radar detector. You don’t have to be a speed demon, street racer or other ...

Escort Radar, one of the big brands in the radar detection biz, has been under some scrutiny this year as customers and reviewers reported suboptimal performance on the $800 Redline 360c—Escort’s ...

Radar detectors are pretty simple. They detect when a cop is shooting radar at you, and warn you — often just too late — to slow down. Sometimes you're lucky enough to catch a cop early, but other ...