With police radar, that moving object is your car. Radar units generate the waves with a transmitter . When they bounce back off your car, they are picked up and amplified by a receiver so they can be analyzed. The analysis is then reflected in a speed-readout device.
Read moreWhat happens if a cop sees your radar detector?
Police Officers Knowing if You Have a Radar Detector They give alerts to the driver of any police cars nearby or any speed guns waiting to catch speeding vehicles . In the right hands, such a device would be used by civilians who want to avoid nearby traffic or accidents, take quicker routes, get navigated, etc.
Read moreCan radar detectors detect police cars?
Radar detectors can detect radar but not police vehicles . There’s a good chance the police car wasn’t radar-equipped (90 percent carry no radar). Or if it was, most officers shut off the radar while they’re out of the car on a traffic stop or when using it in instant-on mode.
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