False alarms are the #1 consumer complaint about radar detectors. On the highway, many are caused by Blind Spot Monitoring (BSM, or lane-change-warning) radar on nearby cars.

For example, when I first tested the Stalker Dual SL police radar, on a trip from Dallas to Denver, driving at night on Highway 287 in west Texas, target speeds appeared magically—with no vehicles in sight.

To find the best radar detector to meet this new threat, we squared off against an ATS Portable Tower with detectors from Beltronics, Cobra, Escort and Whistler.

This installer's ignorance isn't uncommon. Few understand the differences between LIDAR and RADAR technology and many assume that a laser beam passes easily through plastic, just like microwave …

We’ve been performance-testing radar detectors since 1990 and continue to be the only retailer in the world that tests every product we sell. We take pride in our outstanding customer service, industry …

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We've been performance-testing radar detectors since 1990 and continue to be the only retailer in the world that tests every product we sell. We take pride in our outstanding customer service, industry …

We found X- and K-band radar performance to be outstanding. It led the pack on both X and K band at the Hill/Curve Test site and scored another first place on X-band City at the Straightaway Test site.

We broke the story on Rocky Mountain Radar in 1993 [The Little Jammer That Couldn't, Automobile Magazine] and have tested many of its wares in the years since. Aside from being marginal at …

Usually it'll be a headlight, a terrific target for both radar and lasers. But if no headlight is available—Corvettes, for example, had retractable headlights for years, making them exceptionally …