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Originally Posted by LT1gen6
Advanced apology for the oblivious question and comment: "Is radar still commonly used? I thought its use was displaced by laser. ."
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I've driven in Texas and most States in the eastern half of the US with my radar detector. In my experience of about 5 years of driving totaling probably around 30k miles (mostly on trips), police are usually running Ka band, sometimes K band (but road construction light up customizable disay signs and "your speed is" signs and certain Mazda blindspot monitors and automatic doors of businesses [only in parking lots and roads with stores very near to them] are more common on K band and all false alerts). I've only gotten 1 laser alert ever and I think it was false because I couldn't find a police car that it would have come from and I didn't get pulled over (but I was only going a few mph over the speed limit).
Your experience might be a lot different depending on where you drive. Some areas do use laser but I don't think it is common compared to radar.